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Two years after Fukushima: Carlsbad radiation center helped monitor US for nuclear fallout
From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (3/12/2013) — Two years ago this week, the world watched in horror as a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter Scale hit Japan, followed by a tsunami on the country’s east coast, killing thousands of people. While the loss of life and property was tremendous, it could have been far…Continue Reading »
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Experts: Radiation from Japan unlikely to affect Carlsbad
By Matlin Smith Current-Argus Staff Writer CARLSBAD – Local radio chemists from the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center assure the Carlsbad public that radiation from Japan will not affect the city as long as current conditions remain the same overseas. ” We will eventually see litt le spikes” said Dr. George Mulholland. the interim…Continue Reading »
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Tagged Carlsbad, Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center, CEMRC, Current-Argus, David Baker, Dr. George Mulholland, Japan, Matlin Smith, Punam Thakur, radioactivity, Sally Ballard, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, WIPP
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