U.S. Declines to Give Details on Radiation
The Wall Street Journal
By STEPHEN POWER and CAROL E. LEE
March 19th, 2011
WASHINGTON—U.S. government officials, in private sessions on Capitol Hill Friday, repeatedly declined to give details of radiation measurements at the stricken Japanese nuclear complex, saying the situation is shrouded in a “fog of war.”
Separately, the Obama administration said Friday “miniscule quantities” of radiation from the Japanese nuclear accident were detected Friday at a monitoring station in Sacramento, Calif., a day after similar traces of radiation were detected in Washington state.
The administration said the levels of the radioactive isotope xenon 133 were approximately equivalent to one-millionth the dose received from the sun, rocks or other natural sources.
The Obama administration’s reluctance to detail in public what it is learning from radiation-detection operations around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan highlights a broader sensitivity in the U.S.’s posture toward a stricken ally.
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Doesn’t matter what the US government says or doesn’t say anymore. Nobody with any sense believes these liars, and they lie about most everything.
Why wont they say what was detected, how much was detected and which kinds of ionizing radiation is detected?
I want to know how much fission products have been detected, including Strontium, Iodine, Cesium, Plutonium, uranium, Xenon, etc, and how much ionizing radiation has been detected and what is is, alpha, beta, gamma.
Right on dude…you sound like you know what your talking about. What are my best preventative measure to take besides the required dose of sea salt since potassium iodide doesn’t seem to be available and the purging of milk? I live in southern AL and am receiving massive amounts of rain as i type. Can you recommend a good home water purifier? Many thanks my friend.