Radioactive iodine from Japan nuclear reactor explosion found in New Hampshire
Radioactive iodine found by Dartmouth researchers in the local New Hampshire environment is a direct consequence of a nuclear reactor’s explosion and meltdown half a world away, says Joshua Landis, a research associate in the Department of Earth Science. The failure of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, was the largest nuclear disaster since 1986 at Chernobyl. . .
. . . . . This is not the case with another isotope, iodine-129, released concurrently with iodine-131. It is not as radioactive, which makes it much harder to measure, but it is much longer lasting and, as it concentrates in certain areas over time . . . . (more)
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120403/Radioactive-iodine-from-Japan-nuclear-reactor-explosion-found-in-New-Hampshire.aspx
The Dartmouth team downplays the toxicity of the idone but here’s some info from ENE-News:
Forever: Iodine-129 “a growing radiological risk” — 15.7 million year half-life — Almost undetectable — Traveled along with iodine-131 from Fukushima — Concentrates in hotspots
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