Radiation tests underway on dead and diseased seals in Alaska

[Eva Libre]

 

 — Suffering bleeding lesions, hair loss

 

 

Diseased seals in Alaska tested for radiation, Reuters, Dec. 27, 2011:

 

SOURCE: North Slope Dept. of Wildlife

 

 

Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. [...]

 

Biologists at first thought the seals were suffering from a virus, but they have so far been unable to identify one, and tests are now underway to find out if radiation is a factor. [...]

 

 

Specifics

 

 

• Scores [multiples of twenty] of ring seals have washed up
• On Alaska’s Arctic coastline
• Since July

 

 

Symptoms

 

 

• Bleeding lesions on the hind flippers
• Irritated skin around the nose and eyes
• Patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats

 

 

John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

 

• “We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity”
• “There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage”
• “[Test results would not be available for] several weeks”

 

 

See also:

 

• Alaska registers highest radiation in US after Fukushima
• Report: NRC analysis indicated "elevated child thyroid" in Alaska, ...

 

 

Yet this strange report ran last week in a Fairbanks, Alaska newspaper: Officials: No Alaska radiation from Fukushima

 

 

[Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX]

I pray for the animals

Love, Peace and Health for animals and all Beings

[Erondina Sampaio-SOL]

Canadian authorities are finding extremely high levels of nuclear radiation in certain fish samples.

Some fish samples tested so far have had very high levels of radiation: in a sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.

This is an absurd...