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Radiation In Milk?

First they found radiation in milk in Spokane, Washington. Then they found radiation in milk in San Luis Obispo County, California. Now they have found radiation in milk in Arizona as well. Should we just start assuming that all of our milk is going to have nuclear radiation from Japan in it until further notice? Of course federal authorities insist that the levels of radiation being detected are completely safe and that nobody should start worrying about the milk that they are drinking. In fact that there are even some crackpots out there that are attempting to claim that nuclear radiation from Japan is actually good for us. Yes, let's all run out and guzzle as much of that "nutritious" radioactive milk as we can. Of course it isn't just milk that the radiation is getting into. It is showing up in water supplies from coast to coast and it is inevitable that it is going to get into most of our food products. Not that there is much that we can do about it.

Hopefully our authorities are right and that the radiation from Japan is not a very serious threat. But having to think twice before drinking a glass of milk is not very comforting.

Sadly, the nuclear crisis in Japan only seems to be getting worse.

Hundreds of tons of water a day are being poured into these reactors. All of that very highly radioactive water has to go somewhere. What we are finding out is that in addition to being released into the air as steam, it is also getting into the groundwater at Fukushima and into the ocean off the coast.

The radiation level in the ocean near the Fukushima nuclear complex was recently measured to be 4,385 times above what is considered normal.

So what is this going to do to the Japanese seafood industry?

And what is going to keep that highly radioactive water from circulating all over the Pacific?

The groundwater under Fukushima is even worse. TEPCO has confirmed that the level of radiation in the groundwater underneath the Fukushima nuclear complex is 10,000 times above the legal limit.

Ack!

But of course since Barack Obama (one of the great con men of our generation) has promised that the nuclear radiation being released at Fukushima is "no danger" to the United States we should all be able to sleep really well at night, right?

Well, I don't know about you, but when I hear that it is being reported that the University of California at Berkeley has found that rainwater in San Francisco contains significant levels of nuclear radiation I start getting a little bit concerned.

So just how long is this nuclear crisis in Japan going to last?

Well, there is at least one nuclear expert that claims it will be 50 to 100 years before any of the spent nuclear fuel rods at the Fukushima complex will cool down enough to be removed from the facility.

So what are they supposed to do for now?

Well, there are some hints that the Japanese are starting to think about implementing the "Chernobyl solution" and encase the entire area in massive amounts of concrete, but there are also quite a few experts that believe such a solution will not work in this case.

Hopefully something can be worked out. For the moment, the folks over in Japan will just have to keep pouring massive amounts of water on those buildings. Of course that will continue to create huge amounts of very highly radioactive water that is going to go into the groundwater and into the ocean, but what else are they supposed to do?

When this crisis initially began, not too many nuclear experts were all that concerned, but now some of them are really sounding the alarm...

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