[Vision2020] Is it on its way to Idaho?

[Chuck Kovis]

  Monday, EPA released its latest results that included the first results for drinking water. Drinking water samples from two locations, Boise and Richland, Wash., showed trace amounts of Iodine-131 — about 0.2 picocuries per liter in each case.

  The EPA explained that an infant would have to drink almost 7,000 liters of this water to receive a radiation dose equivalent to a day’s worth of the natural background radiation exposure we experience continuously from natural sources of radioactivity in our environment.

  Earlier precipitation samples collected by EPA have shown trace amounts of radioactivity, so EPA has expected to find results such as these in some drinking water samples. Similar findings are to be expected in the coming weeks, officials said.

  In addition, results of EPA’s precipitation sampling and air filter analyses continue to detect very low levels of radioactive material consistent with estimated releases from the damaged nuclear reactors. Federal experts said the findings pose no public health risk. (Idaho Free Press, 4-5-2011)

  No need to worry.  The "federal experts" tell me so.  Wait till it gets in Alaskan Salmon.  Anyone going to eat iodized "Copper River Salmon"?  Iodine 131 only has a half-life of 8 days.  How about Cesium 137?  It only has a half life of 28 years and has to undergo 10 to 12 half lives to get out of the system.  How about Plutonium?  It has a half life of 28,000 years.  And they are dumping thousands of gallons of this radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.  Don't worry.  It will dilute.  LOL.  

  Chuck Kovis
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