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“Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
We noted more than a year ago:
The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.
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Of course, fish don’t necessarily stay still, either. For example, the Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:
That might be extreme, but the point is that fish exposed to radiation somewhere out in the ocean might end up in U.S. waters.
And see this.
CNN reports today:
Low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011, researchers reported Monday.
The bluefin spawn off Japan, and many migrate across the Pacific Ocean. Tissue samples taken from 15 bluefin caught in August, five months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, all contained reactor byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels that produced radiation about 3% higher than natural background sources
The Wall Street Journal quotes the studies’ authors:
“The tuna packaged it up and brought it across the world’s largest ocean,” said marine ecologist Daniel Madigan at Stanford University, who led the study team. “We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”
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“We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium-134 and cesium-137,” said marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York state, who was part of the study group.
The bad news is that is is only going to get worse.
As Reuters points out:
Unlike some other compounds, radioactive cesium does not quickly sink to the sea bottom but remains dispersed in the water column, from the surface to the ocean floor.
Fish can swim right through it, ingesting it through their gills, by taking in seawater or by eating organisms that have already taken it in ….
As CNN notes:
Neither [of the scientists who tested the fish] thought they were likely to find cesium at all, they said. And since the fish tested were born about a year before the disaster, “This year’s fish are going to be really interesting,” Madigan said.
“There were fish born around the time of the accident, and those are the ones showing up in California right now,” he said. “Those have been, for the most part, swimming around in those contaminated waters their whole lives.”
In other words, the 15 fish tested were only exposed the radiation for a short time. But bluefin arriving in California now will have been exposed to the Fukushima radiation for much longer.
As KGTV San Diego explains:
The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this summer when researchers planned to repeat the study with a larger number of samples. Bluefin tuna that journeyed last year were exposed to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen.
One of the studies’ authors told the BBC:
The fish that will be arriving around now, and in the coming months, to California waters may be carrying considerably more radioactivity and if so they may possibly be a public health hazard.
Japanese and U.S. officials – of course – are pretending that the amount of radiation found in the bluefin is safe. But the overwhelming scientific consensus is that there is no safe level of radiation … and radiation consumed and taken into the body is much more dangerous than background radiation.
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Yep and you can't even get naked and eat your neighbor's face off either. What's this world coming to?
enenews.com for justice !!!
EneNews = The best daily source for radiation-related news on the web BY FAR
Ex-skf blogspot and Fukashima diary are excellent sources for the ongoing destruction of Japan.
Especially poignant is the story of the rice farmer who moved to Australia with heirloom seed...so he could grow uncontaminated rice to send to his countymen.The way Japan is dealing with this is horrifying in the long term implications.Burning contaminated debris....and spreading the radiation around.
A total nightmare....it's kind of like watching a person who is on fire running to escape the flames...the Horror!
I was just about to add enenews as the source everyone should reference everyday to stay abreast of the nightmare. Thanks for the excellent work you do GW.
From the obamanation commie nazi authorities
"aaaaaaaaa The only fish that we know are radiated conclusively are the 15 aaaaaaaaaa fish we tested.
So as far as we know aaaaaaa the rest of the fish at the aaaaaaa grocery store or your favorite
aaaaaaaaa seafood or aaaaaaaaa pass that bowl damn it sushi restaraunt are aaaaaaaaa
completely safe and we will make sure that aaaaaaaaaa they be completely safe by never testing them again!"
bon apetite aaaaaaaaaa and die motherfuckers! everybody smoke pot - OCNA
These are numbers from last year's tuna.
Just wait until this year's testing.
"There will be no testing this year. Do you understand? Are we getting the message?"
This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood police state.
I do like how Japan can fuck over the whole world and no body sues them in international court. But when a mcdonalds coffee is too hot, ooooh boy watch out.
Japan?, sure they fucked up but what about the gulf of Mexico,BP?
and depleted Uranium and Phosphorous and god know what else in Iraq and Afghanistan?... sands that will eventually fly out westward towards the US esat coast and all the colours of slime that are out there, pink, white, grey, etc. and Monsanto destroying the bees and poisoning everything with their chemicals, .......the list goes on.....
Japan is only one culprit....
Oh ya that one too. but with Japan its not like that specific uranium is everywere naturally leaking from the seabed- like the BS they pulled on the gulf. but with this its like this specifically came from you. To me something like this would be easier, then again you are taking on a government..... Funny how this suing thing doesn't scale if you don't invade the country.
Earthquakes are an "Act of God" and the sweet old lady that sued McD's was coerced into it by a neighborhood action group that had been trying for a long time to get McD to lower the temp on their coffee. It seems several people had been burned by their coffee. The whole story was on 60 minutes.
You believe 60 Minutes?
I don't think this was directed at me but I'll answer anyway. No I don't but I do believe my eyes when I looked up the medical photos and saw the carnage for myself.
Hey Billy, Did you see that old woman's legs after the burn? It wasn't some small little blister her fucking legs looked like she'd been fried with a blowtorch. That lawsuit was completely justifiable, not to mention how many other complaints and instances had already been neglected by McD's.
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Take a look at this shit and tell me their coffee wasn't too fucking hot for even Satan!
http://travis.pflanz.me/assets/stella_liebeck_burned_by_mcdonalds_coffee...
Hey pussy ass junkers speak up if you got something to say! Fucking punks I'd really like to hear your side of this nonsense.
JWinFl is that you? Or just another internet badass?
Hey dipshit is that you???
I didn't threaten anyone with violence so I certainly did not deserve that remark. I would simply rather the junkers to state why they feel McD's shouldn't have been liable. You can kindly fuck off.
BTW I didn't junk you either.
Since you apparently value honesty.... it was me who at first "upped" you out of the junking, and junked him..... simply because you made sense and seemed reasonable, while he didnt.
And yes, it did so while not expecting you to make this first step.
And nope, i don't expect any appreciation - because i didnt do it for getting approval. I just "egocentrically" approved what felt integer, logical, reasonable and honest to me, and disapproved what didn't.
Too hot?
LULZ
Thanks for sharing it. I had no idea it was that bad. Imagine those burns on your genitals. Your junk would never be the same...
I can speak from experience. About the time of this lawsuit, I stopped with a client at McDonalds to buy breakfast (and coffee) on our way to his mining claim. FORTY-FIVE (45) minutes later, we got there, I took the lid off the coffee cup, and it was still too fucking hot to drink without pain.
During the trial, it came out that McDonalds boosted the temperature of the coffee it sold to disguise the fact that it was second rate; viz., make it hot enough, and people can't taste it.
Finally, saying that this accident was this woman's fault for being careless, whatever ... well, that ignores the fact that, every single morning for decades, thousands of McDonalds handed thousands of cups of coffee to customers in cars (and still do to this day), and (get this) watch while their customers quickly stick it between their legs so as to grab the bag of Egg McMuffins®. No one ever thought "Gee, what do you suppose will happen when this container of freakin' boiling hot liquid spills all over their genitals?"
I think McDonalds got off light, and I am not a big law and order kinda guy.
Dear all,
This was predictable and in fact I predicted it along with many of my colleagues. We sent a year ago a letter of protest to the head of the EPA that at around that time had decided to stop testing for radiation contamination in food.
We never got any response.
It is all very sad. What happened in Fukushima, all the people in the Biomedical Engineering world with knowledge of nuclear bioengineering were shocked and understood that no matter what we did, the phenomenae of bioaccumulation was unstoppable without MAJOR coordinated action from governments worldwide. No organization or group of interested scientists was going to be able to do anything but scare people and make a difficult problem much worse. So it was with great sadness that we watched the authorities throw in the towel and basically accept the deaths of millions of newborns and the premature deaths of millions of adults (as predicted by the studies published from the Chernobyl disaster, 25 years after it happened). The political will was clear to make the event dissapear by pre-emptying its MSM difusion.
At the time, more than 1 year ago, we got so desperate that many of us started publishing our thoughts in the www.lunaticsoutpost.com and in the physics forum on fukushima, where you still, if you care, can find extremely useful information about the even and how you can protect yourself. Of course, there are a few lunatics in the outpost too and many bots, that only intended to cloud the discussion. I am sure that ZH readers can easily spot those and discard them.
Bioaccumulatin predicts that ratiation will be aborved in low level organisms through their feeding and breathing and that it will move up in the food chain until most of it will reside at the top of the food chain, namely "us"... Oh, and obviously the richer the Country is the more it will absorb.
My son in-law works in the food industry and manages a large producer of gourmet foods. At the time, I told him what was going to happen, AND I TOLD EVERYBODY WHO WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT IT, many acted and moved to South America, others I don't know, and my son in law bought contracts for food supplies that were not going to be contaminated at the times and places that we indicated (lunatic...). Now that people are getting really worried (since the same way a Harley Davidson got to the West Coast, so will a lot of the radioactive sludge). Now his company can tell their customers, that are already asking, that their food is not coming from the contaminated places.
Sadly, this in only temporary, since it will bioaccumulate. It doesn't matter if the dose is below detection level today since it will bioaccumulate for your lifetime and the half life of many of the materials dumped into the ocean is of thousands of years.
Until next time,
Engineer
Got a link to his producs page? that might be important in the future.
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I'm really surprised it is only 3%. I'm believing that, science is so reliable now, had it come back no change they wouldn't be paid.
Maybe some neat mutations will pop up now.
People are more endangered by natural mercury in some fish.
Leaving for the Gulf soon George, a couple weeks.
Looking forward to seeing the eyeless shrimp. I'll be extremely disappointed if that Al Jazeera report turns out to be false. I will be offering to pay, hopefully that doesn't result in some ragin cajuns pulling the eyes off.
Sky Truth site has been around for a long time, I started referring to them after some the hurricanes knocked out platforms and big spills started to be noticed by satellites in and around 2005-6.
They keep a running report on "incidents" (some verified some not....) you might want to refer to it under wildlife section....
http://oilspill.skytruth.org/
Keep yourself safe... remember some of this stuff does a number on your DNA....
Just hot off the press : the alpha omega psi beta kappa, (not frank), Corp have just declared they have invented an algae capable of sucking in all radioactive radiation in the sea and in sea life. It works on the Hadrian collider principle, only it has nano particle antennae that pick up the radio active traces and convert it thru ultra hi vibration, stimulated by seamless photonic to electronic conversion by imbedded nanoparticle captor implants, into black hole type antimatter material. This black hole "commie-matter" absorbed in the algae can then be extracted by cooking the algae at 451 F in which case the black hole generates so much energy, like a apeshit pedophile in anal harmony, you could light up Times square with 1 mm squared of algae boiled and depolluted of black radiated halographic ghost matter. If this is proven true on recurrent basis it will not ony provide a way to cure the earth of all radiation but also stock the radiated matter to subsequently generate black hole antimatter reboiled into free energy; thanks to seamless photonic conversion into electronic impulsion. Nanoscience and implants are the agent to ultra hi shaking of tuna fish muscle to deliver all its bad karma, Fukushima impulsed rotten tomatoes.
We are saved forever-more alleluiaaa!
I could become a science fiction writer now. You should drink some of this excellent wine, chardonnay from non polluted southern france (for the time being its just financial shit).
Dang and I used to love tuna fishing off Cabo.
"Wicked Tuna" show will be renamed to "Rad Tuna"
Well, this will stop the Japanese from paying $100k + for the huge Blue Fins......................
Why would you think they would ever believe it?
Relativism based assertions shouted loudly to masquerade as objective facts. Seem to recall something similar. Oh yes, MAN MADE Global Warming.
Little boy's that cry wolf, don't always get eaten by a wolf. Sometimes they just starve alone next to the tree whose fall was never heard...
Actually it's a relatively simple study that is easily checked and backed up unlike some of the GW studies where the scientists refuse to release methods and raw data.
Simple granted. However few data points and being unable to control for all effects renders simple to, simple minded.
Please explain why we now have a navigable Northwest Passage via the arctic????
Be sure to cite your sources and funding of said sources.... I want to make sure it is not a "relativism based on assertions shouted loudly to masquerade as objective facts"... funded by the oil and gas patch... or the Koch Brothers... lol
Thanks for making clear my point of relativism and ignorance. Trial & error over a known limited space is far different than trial and error in which neither the space, consituent components, their relationships, or our ability to observe all the same, is unknown and not defined.
No funding required, only well educated in correctly applying the scientific method and understanding its limitations. Neither of which seems to be known or practiced by the Dismal Scientists, Georgie, nor most of the 16th ranked scientifically & mathematically "educated" American public.
Please explain how the Sahara used to be the bottom of an ocean.
p.s. I'm not saying I agree with Centurion9.41; I'm just saying the world is dynamic, and you're brainwashed.
Hmm, what are the involved timespans like, in comparison? Just curious.
The Bible says the world is static and you have no brain to wash.
Coming from you, that's saying something!
On the positive side, now people won't be eating tuna, havesting will slow and the stocks will recover! For what purpose, I don't know. But we will have a rebounding stock of tuna that we can't eat. Thanks Japan... you slope eyed lying devils, trying to compete with American devils are you?
"...the stocks will recover!".......
OMG...... do you understand what radation does to DNA.... ie the genetic codes, the stuff that needs to be intact to successfully reproduce........
ROTFLMAO and crying in my beer at the same time.........
I want to ask u a personal question but I can't as it is not possible on a public forum like ZH. But I will as I believe in transparency : what will my DNA morph into if I eat tuna, will my hard-on sparkle more? Over and out! MAYBE MY GREAT GRAND CHILDREN WILL BE SPARKLING LIKE BUBBLY CHAMPAGNE AND IMMUNE TO CAESEIUM AND IODINE ***. WE WILL HAVE MUTED AND IMMUNISED OUR VITAL ORGANS. SKOL!
I don't see the problem. When a fish has two heads that just means more fish. DNA = Discount Nuclear Albacore (or if you're G. Bush Nookyooolar)
Bunch of pics from this past Friday of reactor building no. 4.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2012/05/160346.html
Did you see this story?
Hosono regrets not having admitted nuclear meltdowns immediately
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/05/160790.html
The kicker? He admitted it to Michael Sandel, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University.
I'm gonna need more tinfoil.
Yes, we can sculpt our hats into shiny mushroom cloud shapes. Works great with the ladies.