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LOCAL AND NOT FROM JAPAN! “Pervasive” amounts of radioactive isotope Iodine-131 in the waters of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Thursday, October 30, 2014 1:35
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Scientists studying kelp beds along the coast of Southern California have detected “pervasive” amounts of a radioactive isotope known as Iodine-131 in the waters off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Steven Manley, a marine biologist with California State University-Long Beach, says the most probable source of the contamination is the Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant.
Iodine-131 is regularly used to diagnose and treat cancers of the thyroid gland.
The material is later expelled, and it enters sewer systems and water treatment facilities.

 

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