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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on Mar 16, 2014 15:18:49 GMT
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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on Mar 16, 2014 15:20:20 GMT
Council to ask for more radiation testing Posted: Monday, March 10, 2014 12:00 am Staff Report FAIRBANKS — Fairbanks is a long way from the ocean and even farther from Fukushima, Japan, but an item about the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster nonetheless made its way onto the city’s agenda tonight. At the urging of a concerned citizen, the council will consider a resolution tonight that calls on the federal government and United Nations to do more radiation testing in Alaska waters. It asserts that health risks related to nuclear meltdown have been vastly understated and are linked for the deaths of 20,000 Americans in the weeks after the meltdown. Fairbanks City Mayor John Eberhart said he introduced the resolution after hearing from Ester resident Douglas Yates, who has researched the subject of the Fukushima meltdown extensively. www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/council-to-ask-for-more-radiation-testing/article_3c1a1e9c-a82a-11e3-a036-0017a43b2370.html
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Post by Ex_Nuke_Troop on Mar 16, 2014 15:21:15 GMT
Fairbanks council passes resolution about radiation concern Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 12:00 am Sam Friedman/sfriedman@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is getting attention from both Fairbanks local governments on the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami. By a unanimous vote Monday, the Fairbanks City Council passed a resolution urging the state and federal government, as well as the United Nations, to do more radiation testing in Alaska waters. The resolution was introduced by Fairbanks City Mayor John Eberhart and had the support of the council and several people who came to testify. Among them was John Davies, a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. Davies said he was concerned about radiation from Japan spreading to salmon he dip nets for at Chitina. He told the City Council that he plans to introduce a similar resolution before the borough assembly. “I don’t personally have evidence that there’s a problem right now, but there’s enough concern out there that I would like to know the answers,” he said. Earlier this year, Larry Hartig, the state commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, testified for lawmakers in Juneau about Fukushima radiation. Hartig said radiation levels were at a tiny fraction of the levels required to cause health problems. People ingest more radiation from eating a banana than from eating a tuna from the North Pacific Ocean, he said. Concern about Fukuskima radiation also was raised at the Tanana Chiefs Conference convention Tuesday in Fairbanks. P.J. Simon, a delegate from Allakaket, said possible radiation in migrating salmon posed a risk to subsistence activities. He urged both Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Mark Begich, who spoke at the convention via video conference, to support investigation of the issue. Both Alaska senators said there isn’t evidence that harmful levels of radiation are making it to Alaska or its food supply. But they agreed that ongoing federal monitoring efforts should continue to make sure a radiation threat doesn’t emerge. “We need to be vigilant on this,” Murkowski said. Contact staff writer Sam Friedman at 459-7545. Follow him on Twitter: @fdnmcrime. Staff writer Jeff Richardson contributed to this report. www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/fairbanks-council-passes-resolution-about-radiation-concern/article_1fcb6d02-a9bc-11e3-a8c1-0017a43b2370.html
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so whats happening in the Solomons, is haarp missing its mark?