Radioactive Shrimp - No one mentioned the obvious

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I really didn't have to check out my "theory" about iodine 131 being found in kelp from the Pacific Ocean, but I did, and once again, "I told me so".

This one from the NOAA talks about a kelp monitoring program in California back in 2014, and the link to the study is gone, a pattern I've been noticing with official websites on this subject.


https://seagrant.noaa.gov/help-from-kelp/

Here is a more reasonable quote from the spring of 2012, one year after the disaster.

Scientists from California State University, Long Beach tested giant kelp collected in the ocean off Orange County and other locations after the March, 2011 accident, and detected radioactive iodine, which was released from the damaged nuclear reactor.

The largest concentration was about 250-fold higher than levels found in kelp before the accident.

“Basically we saw it in all the California kelp blades we sampled,” said Steven Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biology professor who specializes in kelp.

The radioactivity had no known effects on the giant kelp, or on fish and other marine life, and it was undetectable a month later.

Iodine 131 “has an eight-day half life so it’s pretty much all gone,” Manley said. “But this shows what happens half a world away does effect what happens here. I don’t think these levels are harmful but it’s better if we don’t have it at all.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...rnia-kelp/

But no worries, in about a month, the radioactive iodine will disappear like magic! Except you have to acknowledge that the output of contaminants has continued daily and increased for almost the past 15 years. So after eight days, only half of the radioactive iodine of a single day's output from Fukushima disappears. I'm not doing the math here, but it seems there will be a constant amount that accumulates exponentially.