Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine

Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by lxe on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:55PM (#17568191)

When they say “bathed in radioactive cloud” they actually mean “wind carried trace amounts of radioactive materials”. Anytime anything “nuclear” is involved, the reporting gets very poetic.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by gdubs on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:44PM (#17570095)

I think when we're talking about wine, the correct way to say it is "contains notes of tobacco and radioactive isotopes".

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by Groxx on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:06PM (#17569794)

Particularly visible in the graph of radioactivity from various times. Fukushima isn't even a visible blip - it's just that our tools are unbelievably sensitive.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by bsder on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:22PM (#17569013)

Yeah, I wish they would point out that the pollution from China regularly swamps the radiation detectors in the US that are monitoring Fukushima.

"Bathed in a radioactive cloud" actually holds more for Chinese coal pollution than anything from a nuclear plant with the possible exception of Chernobyl.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by lgvln on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:30AM (#17572462)

Interesting. Do you have a source for this?

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by bsder on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:43PM (#17577174)

References:

https://boingboing.net/2011/08/18/what-fukushima-can-teach-u...

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/35/14422

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by lgvln on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:19AM (#17581226)

According to those sources, there’s a major difference between the radioactive Sulfur(from the nuclear plant) vs Sulfur dioxide(from coal plants). Apples vs oranges.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by fred_is_fred on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:10PM (#17568399)

Wait until someone tells the author about the sun. I get bathed in a radioactive death rays most mornings.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by thaumaturgy on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:18PM (#17568467)

At the very end of the article:

> ...the levels of cesium-137 are barely detectable...

You'll get a lot more exposure from a single plane flight!

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by kolpa on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:40PM (#17569605)

The sun is radioactive. Sunlight is not radioactive, it's radiation.

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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by Robotbeat on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:30PM (#17571539)

Sunlight does effectively produce radiation burns in your skin, however. And that definitely causes cancer. If we treated sunlight the way we treat barely detectable nuclear radiation, we’d never go outside and we’d use blackout curtains.

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