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The Norwegian Institute for Air Research (Nilo) ran models and forecasts

of the radioactive fallout from the Japanese nuclear accident for some

time. Nilo has stopped providing such forecasts to the public.

However, Alexander Higgins discovered an internal page of Nilo’s website showing high levels of radioactive iodine 131:





(Click for larger image).

Because this comes from an internal – rather than publicly-released – portion

of Nilo’s website, it cannot be confirmed that these are real readings,

as opposed to some sort of fictitious simulation. However, the webpage containing the simulation contains “flexpart”, which is the name of Nilo’s official,formerly-public simulations.

Despite the lack of official confirmation, given that the readings show high levels of radiation hitting much of the West this month, that the EPA has suspended all but routine radiation monitoring, that American states aren’t really monitoring, that Canada has drastically slashed the amount of monitoring it is doing, and that the situation in Japan is worse than the Japanese have previously admitted, I had to post this information … with appropriate caveats.

Update: Someone associated with University of California Berkeley’s radiation testing program wrote last month: