Fukushima: SAFECAST SEAWEED COLLECTION FEASIBILITY STUDY

It is known that much of the radiation from the Fukushima incident — about 80% — went into the ocean, and while this would appear to be good for land dwellers, what is not known for certain is how much of that radiation is making its way into the food chain. Seaweed, which is consumed by people as well as some of the creatures that people eat, would appear to be a good place to look for concentrations of radiation. Marco Kaltofenof Worcester Polytechnic Institute kindly offered to run a range of tests on any seaweed samples we sent him.
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By the end of the two days, 10 samples were collected from 16% of the stops. They were then dried and shipped to Marco Kaltofen for testing. Preliminary results: “Samples were evenly split between low (single digit Bq/kg) and not detected.” We’ll update this blog post when the entire series of tests is complete.

See the Updates & Data: [link to blog.safecast.org]