Radioactive Tuna Fish

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Friday June 01, 2012 · 1:30 PM PDT

2012/06/01 · 13:30

According to this document here less than one hundred BQ Cesium per kilogram of body weight clearly leads to cardiac abnormalities. And according to this paper here these radioactive tuna caught off the West Coast USA were contaminated with 10 BQ of Cesium per Kilogram of body weight.

How can this be considered safe to eat? How can this amount of cesium be considered harmless?

From the first paper linked above:

Degree of expression of pathologic alterations is in direct
dependence from the amount of radioactive caesium in the organism and
cardiac muscle. Prolonged incorporation of radioisotope in the organism
more than 30 Bq/kg is very undesirable, because could lead to the
serious consequences.

And then we have Robert Alvarez telling us that

NPR shouldn't trivialize the risk of radioactive tuna from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Yesterday, National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story asserting that cesium-137 from the Fukushima nuclear accident found in Bluefish tuna on the west coast of the U.S. is harmless.
It is not advisable to eat Bluefin Tuna. Photo by tokyofoodcast.It's not harmless. The Fukushima nuclear accident released about as much cesium-137 as a thermonuclear weapon with the explosive force of 11 million tons of TNT. In the spring of 1954, after the United States exploded nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, the Japanese government had to confiscate about 4 million pounds of contaminated fish.

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5:23 PM PT: California Nuclear Professor: Radioactive tuna may raise cancer risks (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/...

9:42 PM PT: http://markey.house.gov/...

Link to letter from representative Markey on the radioactive Tuna.

Poll
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Which would you prefer to eat?

Pre Fukushima Tuna 1 BQ CS per Kilogram

Post Fukushima Tuna 10 BQ CS per Kilogram

A banana

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Which would you prefer to eat?

Pre Fukushima Tuna 1 BQ CS per Kilogram

7 votes

Post Fukushima Tuna 10 BQ CS per Kilogram

7%

3 votes

A banana

35 votes

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