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Half Moon Bay, California: Health officials respond to beach radiation scare

• yapcguy 13y ago
  > The videos follow other alarming news last month that starfish were mysteriously disintegrating along the West Coast, a trend that has not been linked yet to any cause. Past computer simulations had indicated that radioactive cesium-137 from the Fukushima reactors could begin appearing on West Coast shores by early 2014. Peterson admitted he was “befuddled” as to why radiation levels were higher than normal, but he was skeptical that the Fukushima meltdown could be the cause. He noted that many innocuous items could spike the radiation levels in an area, including red-painted disposable eating utensils. So according to Dean Peterson, the county environmental health director, the radiation is far more likely to be due to people littering the beach and ocean with take-away utensils, rather than one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. He's having a laugh, right?!