A photo from open sources Pacific radiation content of tuna tripled, say scientists at State University Oregon. According to researchers, the radioactive trail of the long feather tuna is an echo of the fusion of the core of a nuclear reactor in 2011 at the Fukushima station. Radioactive tuna is not poses a danger. © Alexius Sutandio | Shutterstock Still less, scientists are sure that fish is safe to eat. The amount of radioactive substances contained in it is almost in thousand times below the limit set by the Ministry of Rural US farms. “You can’t say that the risk is zero, since any the amount of radiation poses a threat to health, – comments on the situation Delvan Neville, lead author of the study. – But the radioactive traces in tuna are too insignificant to become cause for concern. “Scientists conducted an analysis of 26 Pacific long-tailed tuna caught along the Oregon coast during between 2008 and 2012, and found that the content of some radioactive isotopes in fish increased.
However, the content of isotopes does not exceed 0.1% of the permissible level. So, to get a dose of radiation equal to the one that we annually receive from cosmic radiation, soil and other natural sources, you need to eat more than 300 thousand kilograms “radioactive” fish. To exceed the norm of exposure, you need to eat more than 300 thousand kilograms of tuna … © Ildi Papp, Shutterstock
“Year of feeding of long-fin tuna with detected concentration cesium will be equal to the dose of radiation that can be obtained by conducting 23 seconds in a stuffy basement (from radon gas) or 40 nights next to spouse (from natural potassium-40), “says Neville. that since the Fukushima nuclear power plant was damaged in March 2011, about 70 billion becquerels of various radioactive materials.
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