Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast

Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by awjr on Monday November 24, 2014 @06:43AM (#8651951)

So if starfish eat pretty much anything that filters water (muscles), what effect would the Fukushima Accident (March 11th, 2011) have on their radiation levels? Could such an event have triggered a mutation in the virus or could the starfish be hypersensitive to slightly higher background radiation?

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by arethuza on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:18AM (#8652041)

Perhaps worth noting that the amount of radiation being leaking from Fukushima are actually pretty small (0.3 terabecquerels per month) when compared to historical H-bomb tests (~100,000 TBq):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24100-should-fukushima...

Edit: There was even one, relatively small, nuclear test about 500 miles from San Diego:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wigwam

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by fit2rule on Monday November 24, 2014 @07:54AM (#8652136)

This started happening before Fukushima.

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