http://www.enviroreporter.com Wed, 16 May 2012 02:08:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/attack-of-the-show/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/attack-of-the-show/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:04:01 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12877 EnviroReporter.com was featured on G4TV's "Attack of the Show!" on April 16, 2012 where host Kevin Pereira and journalist Michael Collins discuss Fukushima meltdowns' fallout and contamination of the Pacific Ocean and North America. This mainstream media coverage, seen by nearly 2 million AOTS! viewers, is historic in it being the first such program to boldly explore this subject. ]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/attack-of-the-show/feed/ 3 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/la-air-even-hotter-with-radiation/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/la-air-even-hotter-with-radiation/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:02:49 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12894 EnviroReporter.com's last radiation readings of HEPA filter dust in the western Los Angeles Basin, a 40-day accumulation of dust and debris by three HEPA filter machines at Radiation Station Santa Monica yields the highest air rad readings we've taken yet: 7.46 times normal. The California Highway Patrol considers anything 3 times normal radiologically to be a hazmat situation making this detection doubly dangerous.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/la-air-even-hotter-with-radiation/feed/ 8 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/japanese-seaweed-radiation-doubles/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/japanese-seaweed-radiation-doubles/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:02:17 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12876 EnviroReporter.com journeys back to the same Japanese store in Los Angeles to purchase the same brand and make of Nori seaweed it had bought last August. The green sheets of seaweed, prized for its nutty, crispy flavor by hipsters and locals alike, comes in at double background radiation, with a substantial part of that ionization coming from alpha radiation which is 60 to 1,000 times more dangerous than beta and gamma radiation because of its lethality if ingested or inhaled. The eight-month old Nori seaweed bought last year still radiates far above background but loses some of its punch strongly suggesting the presence of medium and long-lived radionuclides like cesium-137 and the lethal brew captured in uranium-60 "buckyballs." Worse still is the fact that the gelling substances in seaweed, 90% of which is grown in the Far East, are used in toothpaste, milk shakes, beer, desserts and all manner of food and drink products that are made with alginate and carrageenan. Hot seaweed sold in 49 Japanese and Japanese-American stores in Southern California as well as over 900 stores.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/japanese-seaweed-radiation-doubles/feed/ 14 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/the-buckyball-stops-here/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/the-buckyball-stops-here/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:04:20 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12866 EnviroReporter.com finds that isotopic identifiers not only cost tens of thousands of dollars, they are thousands of times less sensitive than the Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitors that we've been using since 2000. Now we don't have to raise money to buy one and will offer to return a dozen donations made to us for that purpose.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/the-buckyball-stops-here/feed/ 7 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/l-a-rain-radiation-over-five-times-normal/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/l-a-rain-radiation-over-five-times-normal/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:41:42 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12837 EnviroReporter.com's scientific hypothesis that radioactive "buckyballs" and other fission radionuclides from the triple Fukushima Japan meltdowns are already impacting the region. Sure enough, a rain composed primarily of sea mist formed over a choppy ocean with high winds tested higher than any other Los Angeles Basin rain since Radiation Station Santa Monica began fallout radiation tests March 15, 2011, four days after the unabated meltdowns began. The rain, not impacted by so-called "natural" radon progeny, came in at a whopping 506% above normal, more than high enough to qualify as a hazardous material situation for the California Highway Patrol. This is the hottest L.A. rain detected with our Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor in the over 1,500 radiation tests we've taken since last year's Ides of March.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/l-a-rain-radiation-over-five-times-normal/feed/ 19 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rocketdyne-still-hot/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rocketdyne-still-hot/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:43:47 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12815 Ventura County Reporter news feature, we find out that not only is Rocketdyne far more polluted than previously thought, even in places twice cleaned by lab owner Boeing and nuclear area responsible party, the Department of Energy, we learn that U.S. EPA has deliberately skewed the cleanup numbers. The result could be radionuclides like cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239/240 being left in place at high levels in violation of agreements between the State and DOE. ]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rocketdyne-still-hot/feed/ 1 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/the-endless-bummer/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/the-endless-bummer/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:06:48 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12743 EnviroReporter's favorite print editors were dumbstruck by The Endless Bummer. An EnviroReporter.com exclusive.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/the-endless-bummer/feed/ 19 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rad-news-digest/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rad-news-digest/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:32:57 +0000 Team EnviroReporter http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12741 EnviroReporter.com page comes Rad News Digest which goes back to Day 1 of the Fukushima triple meltdowns and keeps us current going into Year 2 of this unprecedented disaster.]]> http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/rad-news-digest/feed/ 3 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/highest-radiation-in-l-a-air-yet/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/highest-radiation-in-l-a-air-yet/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:47:05 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12734 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/highest-radiation-in-l-a-air-yet/feed/ 15 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/ http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:03:12 +0000 Michael Collins http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=12718 http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/feed/ 11