The radiation fallout from the Japanese disaster has reached the shores of Bruce County.
Bruce Power Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Murray Elston, reported to County Council that their air monitors have detected just-above-trace-levels of iodine 131 in the past week.
Elston says they haven’t followed up this week but suspect those trace levels would remain.
He says the air monitors require time between readings and when they are up and running it takes a sufficient amount of air flow running through them.
So to date, Elston says there are trace amounts.
Elston told county councillors that the Japan nuclear disaster, as bad as it is, does not compare to the Chernobyl nuclear explosions in April of 1986.
He said the Chernobyl explosions were totally uncontained that sent the radiation into the atmosphere.
The containment in Japan is totally different.
The measurements detected at Bruce Power last week, does not create a threat to residents in the area.
