that would be health threatening.'"
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To: <sunishun@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 10:24 AM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Extremely Low Levels Of Radiation Reach
Southern California
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJiwkDIyXLSPOKVBHiLGpF0g5G
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> APNewsBreak: Source: minuscule fallout reaches US
>
> (AP) - 4 hours ago
>
> VIENNA (AP) - Radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant has
> reached Southern California but the first readings are far below levels
that
> could pose a health hazard, a diplomat said Friday.
>
> The diplomat, who has access to radiation tracking by the U.N.'s
> Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, cited readings from a
> California-based measuring station of the group.
>
> Initial readings are "about a billion times beneath levels that would be
> health threatening," the diplomat told The Associated Press, speaking on
> condition of anonymity because the CTBTO does not make its findings
public.
>
> The organization forecast earlier this week that some radioactivity would
> reach Southern California by Friday. A CTBTO graphic obtained Thursday by
> the AP showed a moving plume reaching the U.S. mainland after racing
across
> the Pacific and swiping the Aleutian Islands.
>
> The diplomat's comments backed up expectations by IAEA officials and
> independent experts that radiation levels - which are relatively low
outside
> of the immediate vicinity of the Japanese plant - would dissipate so
> strongly by the time it reached the U.S. coastline that it would pose no
> health risk whatsoever to residents.
>
> The diplomat did not specify the location of the CTBTO station and the
> organization's website lists three in California. But only one, in
> Sacramento, is listed as measuring radionuclides. The others, in Pinon
Flat
> and Yreka, are classified as "infrasound" or "seismic."
>
> While set up to monitor atmospheric nuclear testing, the CTBTO's worldwide
> network of stations can detect earthquakes, tsunamis and fallout from
> nuclear accidents such as the disaster on Japan's northeastern coast that
> was set off by a massive earthquake and a devastating tsunami a week ago.
>
> Since then, emergency crews have been trying to restore the Fukushima
> Dai-ichi nuclear plant's cooling system and prevent overheated fuel rods
> from releasing massive doses of radioactivity.
>
> Japanese officials on Friday reclassified the rating of the accident at
the
> plant from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level international scale,
putting
> it on a par with the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. The International
> Nuclear Event Scale defines a Level 4 incident as having local
consequences
> and a Level 5 as having wider consequences.
>
> Nuclear experts have been saying for days that Japan was underplaying the
> severity of the nuclear crisis.
>
> Yukiya Amano, the head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy
> Organization, left for Tokyo on Thursday to assess the situation. He plans
> to return on the weekend and to brief the IAEA's 35-nation board in an
> emergency session Monday.
>
> In Geneva, the World Health Organization said Tokyo's radiation levels are
> increasing but are still not a health risk, and the group sees no reason
to
> ban travel to Japan because of its nuclear crisis.
>
> WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said Friday the organization "is not advising
> travel restrictions to Japan" outside the 30-kilometer (18.6-mile)
exclusion
> zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.
>
> Hartl said includes Tokyo where "radiation levels have increased very
> slightly, but are still well below the absolute levels of radiation where
it
> would be considered a public health risk."
>
> He also said "in general travelers returning from Japan do not represent a
> health hazard."
>
> John Heilprin in Geneva contributed to this report.
>
> Copyright C 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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