April 12, 2012 - WGMD 92.7 -
DEMA to Distribute Potassium Iodide Tablets Today - The Delaware Emergency Management Agency and the Delaware Division of Public Health will today distribute potassium iodide tablets to Delaware residents living and/or working in the area within 10 miles of the Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations. Tablets will be available to those who have received potassium iodide during previous distribution dates and to those who have never received potassium iodide. The distribution will be held from noon until 7 p.m. at the Volunteer Hose Company in Middletown. Potassium iodide is an over-the-counter medication that can protect the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine, which may be released in the event of a radiation emergency.
April 12, 2012 - Daily Pilot - Radioactive material in CdM doesn't stop beachgoers - Corona del Mar may have topped the list of places where radioactive material linked to Fukushima, Japan, was found in kelp, but beachgoers were out in full force Tuesday afternoon, and some seemed unfazed by the findings. The beach activity comes on the heels of a study by Cal State Long Beach professors in which radioactive isotope iodine 131, one of the contaminants released by a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by last year's earthquake and tsunami, was found in kelp sampled from Laguna Beach to Alaska. Samples taken from CdM's kelp measured highest in the amount of iodine counted, possibly because of runoff from the San Diego Creek through Newport Harbor, according to the study's findings. XJapan Boaz Topol of New York visited Corona del Mar State Beach on Tuesday afternoon with his daughters, and said the study's findings were worrisome. "Definitely right now, I'm not going to be inclined to go into the water," he said. Orange County Health Care Agency spokeswoman Tricia Landquist said the agency is taking its cues from the state before implementing any measures at local beaches and needs to review the study before taking any action. As for the state, it couldn't comment too much on the study's data.
April 12, 2012 - Peterborough Examiner - Nuke regulations too lax on companies like Shield Source: Critic - An international nuclear expert says lax federal regulations allow a company such as Peterborough’s Shield Source Inc. to release dangerous levels of radioactive material into the environment. "Those regulations are laughable. They are ridiculous. They are a licence to pollute. These limits are completely ridiculous," said Dr. Gordon Edwards, a nuclear expert and physicist. Shield Source, located near Peterborough Airport, is in the midst of an application to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to have its nuclear substance processing licence renewed for 10 years. The company uses tritium, an isotope of hydrogen gas, in the manufacture of its self-illuminating signs.
April 12, 2012 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - North St. Louis County group files 2nd suit alleging nuclear waste caused illnesses - A group of 16 people from north St. Louis County, including two Berkeley police officers, filed a second lawsuit Tuesday alleging that nuclear waste in Coldwater Creek caused their cancers and other illnesses. The current or former residents of Florissant, Spanish Lake, Hazelwood and St. Ann were exposed to nuclear waste that was dumped near the airport and contaminated Coldwater Creek starting in the 1940s, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court. The residents report contracting various breast, testicular, brain and pancreatic cancers and other autoimmune disorders. According to the lawsuit, the officers were exposed to radiation at Berkeley's police firing range adjacent to the waste sites. Sergeant and watch commander Evelio Valdespino has worked for the police department for the last 14 years and has been diagnosed with a form of leukemia. James Bakula retired from the department after 25 years and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer, according to the lawsuit.