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Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on August 10, 2011 at 3:57am

I  asked  my  Doctor  about  radiation  coming  to  Canada  and  he  said:  "it'll  never  happen".  I  felt  like  saying:  "Of  course  it  will!!"  Therefore,  Doctors  don't  know  everything.  It's  all  how  the  wind  is  blowing  and  Vancouver  is  so  close  to  Washington.  If  it's  happening  to  the  U.S.  -  then  it  will  happen  to  Canada...

Comment by truth on August 5, 2011 at 1:37pm

Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C.

Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, says that while radiation coming from Fukushima will lead to higher cancer rates among Canadians, the risk posed to individuals is very small.

After Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this country.

In fact, there was reason to worry. Health Canada detected massive amounts of radioactive material from Fukushima in Canadian air in March and April at monitoring stations across the country.

The level of radioactive iodine spiked above the federal maximum allowed limit in the air at four of the five sites where Health Canada monitors levels of specific radioisotopes.

On March 18, seven days after an earthquake and tsunami triggered eventual nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, the first radioactive material wafted over the Victoria suburb of Sidney on Vancouver Island.

For 22 days, a Health Canada monitoring station in Sidney detected iodine-131 levels in the air that were 61 percent above the government’s allowable limit. In Resolute Bay, Nunavut, the levels were 3.5 times the limit.
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