161 Years Of UK Soil Tests Reveal Nuclear Fallout

[illuminati]

A simple agricultural experiment begun 161 years ago is today yielding dramatic insights into events - such as nuclear fallout over Britain - unimaginable when it started.



Jars of soil collected to measure fertiliser regimes at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire have been used to detect radioactive isotopes from the Nevada desert tests of the 1950s, from the hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and from Chernobyl in 1986.

"Long-term field experiments come to be used in ways their founders could never have predicted," Professor Keith Goulding of Rothamsted Research will tell the science festival. New methods enabled researchers to identify the precise radiation "signature" of individual explosions, he said.



One field at Rothamsted, Broadbalk, has been growing wheat for 161 years and soil samples are taken annually, in what was one of the original experiments, Prof Goulding said. "Broadbalk shows that our agriculture is sustainable because yields keep going up." What we are getting is more food for the same amounts of fertiliser year after year, by better agronomy, better agricultural practice."



Two-thirds of all British moth species have declined over the last 35 years, says Kelvin Conrad of the Rothamsted insect survey.



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[CVX]

Chernobyl 'Caused Sweden Cancers'

BBC News



More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have developed cancer as a result of the fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, a new study says.



Swedish scientists said the "Chernobyl effect" was the only likely explanation for 849 cancer cases they came across.



But their findings met with scepticism from some other experts who think the radiation fallout in Sweden was not likely to cause such a rise in cases.



A radioactive cloud swept across north Europe after the disaster in Ukraine.



The study monitored cancer cases among more than 1.1 million people exposed to radioactive fallout in northern Sweden between 1988 and 1996.



More at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4028729.stm

[illuminati]

Nuclear Powerplants are the WORLD's most dangerous appliance.

I am afraid that we ALL will live to regret that they were ever invented and built.

[capt_buzzard]

And right you are on that one illuminati :-6