Letter to editor: We need the truth about radiation levels

Accurate information is missing about ionizing radiation in Washington state.

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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            <p>Accurate information is missing about ionizing radiation in Washington state.</p><p><strong>The othe day I read:</strong> University  of California (Nuclear Engineering Department) at Berkeley Campus finds  significant levels of radioactive iodine from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear  catastrophe in San Francisco Bay rainwater, tap water and milk (<a href="http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2278?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2278</a>).</p><p>I  do not think we are being told the truth in Washington state about the  level of ionizing radiation affecting our surface water supplies and  food. We do have a right to accurate information.</p><p>Please do all you can to accurately report what is happening.</p><p><strong>Brenda Loew</strong></p><p>Seattle</p>
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Accurate information is missing about ionizing radiation in Washington state.

The othe day I read: University of California (Nuclear Engineering Department) at Berkeley Campus finds significant levels of radioactive iodine from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe in San Francisco Bay rainwater, tap water and milk (http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2278).

I do not think we are being told the truth in Washington state about the level of ionizing radiation affecting our surface water supplies and food. We do have a right to accurate information.

Please do all you can to accurately report what is happening.

Brenda Loew

Seattle

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal