Fukushima fallout on vegetation in South Florida exceeded gov’t notification limit by over 1,000% — Nearly triple the highest level reported anywhere on West Coast

ENE News | Nov 27, 2014

Florida Power & Light Company, St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 (St. Lucie, FL) — 2011 Annual Radiological Environmental Operating Report, submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission:

BROADLEAF VEGETATION: Brazilian Pepper from location H59 — 10-20 miles S/SSE of reactors on south end of Hutchinson Island, [30 miles north of Palm Beach]

• Iodine-131 on 22-Mar: 1,220 pCi/kg (wet weight)
  
• Iodine-131 on 29-Mar: 605 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 on 06-Apr: 242 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 on 13-Apr: 136 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 on 20-Apr: 79 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 on 26-Apr: 45 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 on 03-May: 21 pCi/kg
• Iodine-131 is “attributed to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants event. Elevated levels of radioiodine were measured through-out the U.S.”

NRC Reporting Level for Vegetation = 100 pCi/kg (wet weight)

NRC Reporting Level: “The concentration value in an environmental sample, if exceeded, which must be reported to the NRC.”

The highest I-131 level reported in vegetation from the West Coast is 462 pCi/kg in Central California.  The March 22 South Florida sample is nearly triple that amount.
 
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