Scientists Puzzled By How Tiny Amounts Of Cesium-134 From Japan Arrived In Fraser River Valley, BC

[hatrack]

Radioactive activity from Fukushima has reached Fraser River Valley in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. Although the scientists uncovered very low levels of cesium-134 in the soil, they remain baffled as to how it arrived in the area.

"The sample provided was measured and we saw cesium-134, at a very low level and not a concern to public health," Krzysztof Starosta, an associate professor of chemistry at Simon Fraser University, said.

But what baffles scientists about this latest find was that the soil sample taken from a beach so far upriver. "It's inland, so it could not come in from the ocean, since the water flows the other way," he said.

Scientists are speculating a number of guesses - it could have been airborne, landed on a hill or mountain and been washed down to the river. "It's actually quite unexpected that we found it in soil so far inland," Mr Starosta said. "Common wisdom would be that Caesium would come through the ocean."

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http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/543263/20140314/fukushima-radiation-park-canada-british-columbia.htm#.UyLUv17jLog

[Botany]

1. It could be from salmon

They could have picked up the cesium in the pacific, then swam upstream, and their bodies
brought to shore by bears, birds, or some water.

Just guessing but I did get 2.3 from Ohio U.

[A Little Weird]

2. Go Bobcats!

[Botany]

4. The Bobkittens' season is over.

Ohio 38 39 77
Akron 33 50 83

..... But spring in Athens can be a gem.

[hatrack]

3. That was the first thing to cross my mind . . .

They don't just swim upstream, they then get captured, carried off and eaten - eagles in trees and so forth.

[NoOneMan]

6. That's the most obvious answer

And the Fraser has a record of upwards to 70 million radiated sockeye headed straight to it this summer. Dangerously delicious

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Salmon are responsible for much of the nitrogen in coastal forests ...

In fact, they're known as "salmon forests" ...

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/healthy-oceans-blog/2012/10/-pacific-underwater-salmon-dont-grow-on-trees-but-trees-grow-on-salmon/

So the source of the cesium is (DUH) probably the same.

[OnlinePoker]

5. This is some good information on the topic of radiation in the ocean

It's from a scientist at Wood's Hole.

https://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989

[hunter]

7. The Canadian gas industry put it there...

Oops, sorry, I think I've been reading too many Malaysian Air 370 theories this morning.