Dutch Harbor monitor registers highest radiation in US

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By RICHARD MAUER
rmauer@adn.com

Published: 03/30/11 9:52 pm | Updated: 03/30/11 9:53 pm

During the worst week of the Japanese nuclear crisis, the EPA‘s radiation monitor in Dutch Harbor recorded the highest levels of radioactive iodine fallout in the United States among reporting stations, the agency said.

Despite the relatively high levels in the Aleutian Island community on March 19 and 20, state and federal health officials continued to say Tuesday that the amounts of radioactive byproducts were way too small to pose a health risk.

“It may be high relative to the other readings, but it is inconsequential,” said Bernd Jilly, director of the state’s health lab in Anchorage.

The EPA report, issued Monday, is based upon laboratory analyses of filters and charcoal canisters on the monitors, and only a handful of stations were reported among more than 100 in its network.

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