Source : Celtic League
The report indicated that concentrations of the radioactive pollutant Technetium 99 which is found in lobsters continues to fall. This particular pollutant has been focused on in the past by the Celtic League following an unexplained surge in levels monitored in 2004.
The Manx laboratory say that current levels pose no harm and that levels now are less than a quarter of that found in 1998. The graph which complements the report shows however those levels are still approximately twice the concentration found in 1997.
Technetium is a pollutant from the Sellafield reprocessing plant and whilst it and other radioactive contaminant show much lower levels than two decades ago the plants contamination of the North Irish Sea is still a cause for concern.
An interesting anomaly in the Tc 99 figures is that across the twelve month sampling period there are marked variations in the levels identifie.
This was reported in the Celtic News
