Brambles wrote:Generally we do ask that any news such as this is supplied with some sort of link to the complete story to avoid scaremongering and inaccuracies. If you could remember this for future reference, cheers.
The best I can find is a report from 6 days ago by the Independant.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 91886.html
'Mysterious radioactive spikes are being found across Europe – and nobody quite knows why.
Iodine-131, a man-made radioactive material, is being found in small amounts across the continent. It was found in northern Norway early in January, according to officials, but has been gradually moving across the rest of Europe ever since.
But despite finding the material in January, authorities didn’t announce that it had been found until recent days. That might be because it isn't at all clear where it has come from or how it got to be spread out.
Further information makes the find even more unusual. Iodine-131 is usually found alongside other radioactive materials, but it wasn't. And it has a short half-life – the time required for one half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to disintegrate – but a significant amount of it was found, meaning that it is likely that it was introduced very recently.
It isn't clear where Iodine-131 would ever have been released from. The US has deployed specialised planes to fly over Europe and isolate it – but have mostly failed.'
FYI- Half life of Iodine-131 is 8 days.
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/iso ... iodine.pdf
Bram, to clarify a bit, its very hard to give quotable sources because, as has been pointed out, anything on youtube or similar sites would be taken down quickly. And it is. Its not me but my (much) better half who does this kind of research chez shocks and being from an academic background (which I am very, very much not) she sifts and cross references stuff before she discusses it with me. By which time many of her sources have been deleted. I have been shown mapping by
https://www.iaea.org , the international atomic energy agency, amongst others, that has gaps in the timeline of mapping but it is quite well hidden.
I do not want to scaremonger or cause distress, I was answering a post about the availability of geiger counters which given the long term effects of the ongoing fukashima situation (which is covered in mainstream) will eventually be a concern to us, I am lead to believe.
However, as I said above, DANA DURNSFORD reports daily on the situation in the pacific post fukashima and has mentioned the european issue recently. He has a website ;
http://www.thenuclearproctologist.org but his youtube posts are taken down as soon as they have livestreamed. He is an ex commercial diver with 14000 (yes 14 thousand) hours underwater and an ex commercial fisherman who has documented the destruction of the ecology of the pacific coast of canada and alaska for 5 years. Personally, boots on the ground, flippers in the water. He has been repeatedly arrested, jailed, prosecuted, fined but continues his crusade. Take from it what you will.
Personally I sift through what the mrs tells me, what I can see and what I can read, I do not belive
any news agency or source is without its personal or political/financial bias, not even the Independent! So its hard to give quotable links since I form a personal opinion from many sources, taking something from all whilst considering how much skin they have in the game, trying to build some
likely overall picture.
My sincere apologies if I have crossed any forum lines or upset people - it is hard to give solid links to a personal opinion or to posts that have been deleted. I try to look at many new news feeds from around the world, France24, Euronews, Aljaz, RT, Fox, and many other english language internet sources,Lionel Nation etc etc bearing in mind the inherent bias, to glean some kind of aggregate of
likelyhood.
But anyway, hows about keeping on thread, the availability of geiger counters, rather than arguing about whether its needed or not? If someone feels they need one surely thats their shout, and suitable replies would address that ...or am I wrong or out of order ? If we go down that path then people coming to the forum may feel there are questions they cannot ask for fear of being knocked down..,if they feel they need it who can say they are wrong to feel that ?or am I wrong again ?
Please let me know so I dont type my foot into my mouth again
PS- I can feel the knockdown coming already
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