• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s a reasonable explanation.

    Cesium is highly radioactive, and the sensors are very sensitive.

    When Iceland had the Huefaleflefthaflafla volcano outbreak, I could smell the sulphur from my house. In Norway. More than 1500 km / 900 miles across half the atlantic ocean.

    So radioactive smoke being detectable 1.5 miles away makes sense to me.

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        2 days ago

        Felt like every tour guide was drilling this into us during our five day stay there.

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      3 days ago

      I suppose that both the cloves and shrimp have been traced to the same geographic area it stands to reason that this is indeed correct. It’s just so strange and the spices contamination isn’t as fully explained. Maybe if I saw a map the plume theory would make more sense. But at that rate it seems the whole island may be experiencing this issue which is very unfortunate.