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Every tuna caught has radiation. More fish expected to have higher levels this summer. FDA silent. 

Fukushima : Radioactive Cesium found in Tuna off San Pedro California Coast (May 29, 2012)

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∞  05/31/12 at 05:40pm
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Though cesium levels are 10 times the norm, tuna is still safe to eat. Cesium, by the way, is a pleasantly sweet. Homer voice <on> “Mmmmm, delicious radiation…” Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer May 28th 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance. “We were frankly kind of startled,” said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that’s still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments. click here to continue reading… HIGH RES

Though cesium levels are 10 times the norm, tuna is still safe to eat. Cesium, by the way, is a pleasantly sweet. Homer voice <on> “Mmmmm, delicious radiation…”

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US

ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer May 28th 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

“We were frankly kind of startled,” said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that’s still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

click here to continue reading…

(via thenuclearblog)

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∞  05/29/12 at 02:22pm via ap.org
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