cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34796179

More packages of frozen shrimp potentially affected by radioactive contamination have been recalled, federal officials said Thursday.

California-based Southwind Foods recalled frozen shrimp sold under the brands Sand Bar, Arctic Shores, Best Yet, Great American and First Street. The bagged products were distributed between July 17 and Aug. 8 to stores and wholesalers in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state.

The products have the potential to be contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.

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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (18 children)

To quote Ron Burgundy:

I'm not even mad, that's amazing

Like, there's a good chance that this leads to us discovering a "secret" nuke test, it would almost be worst case scenario if this "just happened".

C-137 doesn't just fucking happen, it and S-90 are fission byproducts.

Either someone tested a nuke in the ocean, or there's somehow fission happening somewhere in the ocean without human involvement.

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago* (8 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Someone built their Satisfactory nuclear enrichment center too close to the local Bubba Gump's.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can't justify nuclear. I want to, but it's such a daunting setup and rocket fuel works well enough.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Atlantis is joining World War III

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The way shit is going if an ancient nuclear capable country of mermaids just showed up and took over...

    Probably wouldn't be the worst thing

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cs-137 is used in industrial density gauges. You want to measure the density of a liquid in a pipe? A radioactive source on one side, a detector on the other, easy-peasy.

    Now how the fuck a controlled substance escapes from its highly encapsulated and supposedly-well-tested-and-regularly-inspected compartment and gets into your food, well that's something else to ponder.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not in the shrimp, it was detected in the shipping container.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That's better, but it's still a mystery. Cs-137 sources should be rigorously stored, even in density gauges they are permanently inside a capsule with a shutter that turns the beam "on and off". It's not like you have a chunk of Cs-137 rattling around in a drawer somewhere (or worse, somehow in powered form that gets all over the inside of a shipping container) but that sounds like that's been the case here.

    It's not the first time one of these sources has come loose though - there was a capsule lost on 1400km of highway in Western Australia a little while ago.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Well I'm gonna ask what Walmart that sells this shrimps ?, i need it for scientific propose

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm eating frozen shrimp I got from costco right now. Hopefully, it's not radioactive

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Has no one else read the story?! The Cs was detected in the shipping container, not the shrimp.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Radioactive sea bugs. They crave cocktails. This summer in cinemas.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    They look cheap and nasty based on the packaging alone. Looks like my kid made it in school.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    frozen breaded shrimp imported by BMS Foods of Indonesia

    Not a country with nuclear reactors. Could be nice if they could trace where they were fishing it, because right now, with lack of info, every sea food from Asia, perhaps Pacific or Oceans, is suspect.

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Imagine fucking up so badly you have an xkcd made about you.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    At this point the most surprising part of all of this is that a federal agency was permitted to do something beneficial to regular people.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    You're telling me a shrimp decayed this atomic nucleus?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So this is how we persue larger and larger unit sized shrimp?

    But seriously, how the fuck?

    I’m trying to imagine the factory that both prepares shrimp and handles nuclear waste… it just does not make sense…

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    some foods (and other things, like blood and some other medical products) are irradiated in order to sterilize them and make them last longer, 137Cs sources are used for this purpose because this material is easily available but can't be used for other purposes (like radiography)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But it doesn't exactly explain how the cs-137 contaminated the shrimp. Usually when irradiating anything the source is quite decoupled from the target.

    This story is sorr of getting weird

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    the source getting damaged or corroded somehow is the simplest explanation i can think of now, cesium is likely in form of chloride which is very easily soluble in water

    or maybe it was intentional sabotage by competitor, who the fuck knows

    The best known Chinese rodenticide, containing about 6–20% TETS, is Dushuqiang, "very strong rat poison". It has been used for mass poisonings in China: in April 2004, there were 74 casualties after eating scallion-flavored pancakes tainted by their vendor's competitor; and in September 2002, 400 people were poisoned and 38 died from contaminated food.[11][12] In 2002, there was one documented case of accidental poisoning in the US.[6]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Smaller sources for sensing and detection are ceramic. Cobalt is preferred for larger sources but the half life is only ~5 years so I'm sure there are plenty of applications where the solubility of CsCl is outweighed by the 30 year half life.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    FUCK.

    Normally, I'm a measured man, save some for later I tell myself. There's always more listeria and if I had a dime for every salmonella salad recall I'd be able to afford eggs and coffee right now. But this time, this time seemed different. Radioactive Walmart shrimp. Surely, this was going to be a one time thing. Time to open the hatch, I thought. Drop all my jokes at once, get them out while they're still fresh. Last thing you want is rotten radioactive shrimp jokes, you'll never escape the stink of that, might as well delete your account and start over at that point.

    So, I blew my load the first round. Spent all my jokes on the radioactive Great Value shrimp from Walmart like a fool. And now I got nothing new. Just recycled radioactive shrimp jokes. And some kind of weird lump in my throat. Too bad I can't afford to have a doctor check that out.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The U.S. imports between 1.7-2 billion pounds of shrimp a year. That's a lot more than I expected. Someone is eating a lot more shrimp than I am.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Our planet is dying but we just can't figure out why.

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  • If the Earth had feelings I'm sure it'd be happy to know long after we accelerate the surfaces inhabitability for the majority of our population, it will keep chugging along. The amount of surface water and orbital path should guarantee a million years from now when humans have inevitably killed themselves, life will still exist on earth. And one day it will turn to see the sun rolling into its eyes and think to itself, after all these years. Rick Astley still never gave up on me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Imagine being bitten by a radioactive shrimp

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This got me thinking about being bit by a radioactive shrimp and getting powers like Spider-man. Not sure what powers I'd even get, I already have the shrimp dick.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It'll make you curl up like you've been hunched over your computer desk for decades.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Guberment is LYING to you, it's the radioactive that gives you super powers!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    So how does this happen? Did they use shipping containers to transport radioactive waste? And then just said fuck it its good?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Weird we didn't ever have this happen before

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    There was a concern of radioactive shrimp after Fukushima, but you’d have to have been collecting shrimp right near the nuclear plant, and I believe they still would have been safe to eat

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    So many brands from exactly the same supplier. The American illusion of choice.

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  • This is a big deal

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago

    "Nuclear is the way" "Fukushima was nothing, it was all media drama" sigh.. I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier.. Or it has but no one's been measuring it.. Where can I buy one of those radioactivity measuring devices? I would like to keep eating fish and seafood at least for a few years longer..

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