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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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yummy.....cruise shit fed tuna...enjoy.
http://see-the-sea.org/topics/pollution/toxic/ToxPol.htm
Yeah, this was predicted by so many "rogue" blogs that the Japanese gubmint had to create an anti-blog team to destroy those blogs... and now we find out it is TRUE all along that the oceans are fully radioactive?
FUCK you JAPAN and your filthy lies...
BTW, any note on the amounts of C137/134 radiation? 3% over normal BG is shorting the truth... especially since C137/134 is not "normal" background!!!
GAME OVER
Hey wait, don't leave out GE and Jeff Immelt-down.
GE, We Bring Your Death to Life
Wait until some enterprising reporter starts taking a geiger counter into the produce section of your supermarket and discovers higher than permitted counts on California produce. Will this be reported? Doubtful.
Thats unlikely to work, since Cesium is primary a beta emitter (95% decays via beta emssion). a regular geiger would fall to measure this since beta radiation would be absorbed in the soft tissue of the fish before it reaches the air to be detectable by the geiger. Special equpment is needed to measure alpha and beta radiation in food.
"Special equpment is needed to measure alpha and beta radiation in food."
It would be more ideal to have food testers - I'm thinkin people like Bernanke, Geithner, Rubin, Paulson, Greenspan, Obama, Bush, Cheney, Frank, Dodd since they have two mouths for which to test everyone else's food.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june12/fukushimapt3_03-13.html
half snarc: not only does G.E. not pay taxes, has more people working on tax avoidance than ELE avoidance, built these reactors, ...... and now they can sell radiation testing equipment to a new generation of small businesses! (The linked article shows a new industry in japan where people can bring in their food and have it tested for radiation)
The store managers will kick them out so fast that it will make the reporter's head spin.
The fish can only swim up to the West coast.
But lemme tell ya', folks, anything getting somewhere in the air Does Not Fucking Stop at the California Borders.
Barium swallow or Tuna on Rye ???
Tuna sandwich, and a side of Iodine, Pls...................
Soon we will have three choices for canned tuna.
Packed in Oil, Water or Cesium.
No matter what style you choose, they'll all be packed in lead cans. Bonus! You can then use the cans for lead hats, gonad protection, or bullets!
Deadliest Catch is taking on a whole new meaning....
The Cesium packed variety should have remarkable shelf life!
Hey at least someone wins out of this. At least no one will touch tuna for the forseeable future. Fish stocks will come back at last!!!
they'll be back.... with lasers.
Tuna meltdown anyone?
Nothing but tuna-free dolphin for me from here on in!
And another ZH oldtimer surfaces for air.
Nice to see you still coughing up furballs brother. :>)
Hey there CD nice to see you as well. This stray cat has been following his inner kitten and gone feral lately. It's been a great experience! :)
Wonderful.
Just remember to (re)visit the ZH litter box now and then and make a big stink. :)
at least night fishin will be easier
Stocked up on cases of Hana Yaki Nori and Imported Wasabi right after the meltdown......sushi just won't be the same when it's glowing in the dark.....
Officials are saying that the radiation levels are safe??????
Yeah, and you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex.........
3% higher than background?
Come the fuck on. You get 300% of background by living in a brick house.
He did say 3% above background? I am surprised that that is even measurable. Must be very very sensitive instruments to pick up a 3% deviation.
I think they meant 'relatively safe.' They recently upped the power on the naked body scanners at your airport so they could better find undie-bombers, so the tuna are probably the least of your worries these days.
On another note, the radiation reaching the west coast is kind of ho-hum since it was expected, but that 3x ocean-swimming tuna ... now that is news.
Yeah, and the air was safe to breathe around Ground Zero...
"We don't torture people. We don't torture people. Let me tell you something, we don't torture people." - John Ashcroft
Having to hear John Ashcroft sing was torture!
Let the BluuuuuuuuFin Swim
Like she's never swaaaaaam before..
Nuclear powered Terry the Tuna...now I've seen it all.
Sorry Charlie.
I tell you, Calif can not catch a break, First their economy is in the shiter, now their fish glow in the dark, you know the big Earthquake is just around the corner...Canada is looking better and better...
At this point, anything that makes people leave Cali is ok in my book. When the lineup at Cottons get empty, I'll be a happy pappy. I'll even wear my tricky dick mask again. It'll just be us codgers out there who were going to die from cancer in ten years anyways.
Revenge of Hiroshima!
Ironic, ain't it?
batterycharged-It's not so simple, the Japanese will suffer more than us. OT The Jeff Rense site does a pretty good job of reporting on what is going on in Fukushima. I haven't heard a word about it from the MSM.
We went to Benihanas Japanese steakhouse today. We refused the appetizer shrimp. NO more seafood for us. From anywheere. We don't care.
This ecological disaster couldn't have happened to a better nation than Japan. They slaughter whales and everything else in the seas, and now they have permanently ionized them. I'm sure Ann Coulter will come out and repeat her mantra of "a little radiation is actually GOOD for you!" Between Fukashima and the BP spill, how in the hell can you eat seafood?? Seriously?
I would not call it revenge, it is a form of Hara Kiri, the fuckers, that's all they eat FISH!... not that we are doing any better.....
It will affect them more than any other population in the world, but I am afraid it will affect us all.
I love sushi, but I stopped eating anything Tuna or Swordfish. I stick to cold water fish only, but they are still affected...
We are all fucked , between the pink, white slimes and everything else out there including "healthy" fish and "healthy grains and vegetables" contaminated by chemicals from Monsanto and others, we don't need no fucking wars to obliterate ourselves, it is already happenning!!!
And I will add that financially, that idiot Fharid from CNN telling new grads that this is the best time in history, what an ignorant brain washed moron!!!!, if I max my credit cards every year and take a fucking vacation to Hawaii for the last 25 years, of course it will appear "prosperity" has no end, the fucker can't imagine we are living on borrowed time financially speaking......
None of that shit is sustainable, the damage to our food supply, the damage to our financial well being , etc , etc.....
Enough of this rant!!
Hmmm, should I get the coconut shrimp with Petrol sauce.. or the glow in the dark mahi with a side of radioactive isotopes?
Make mine my favorite; glow in the dark bluefin sashimi!
But, but..........our masters insist that all is well........no?
It is well BFA.
The Japanese are now experimenting with an environmentally friendly tuna fueled light boiling water reactor. Problem at present is in determining critical tuna mass for the fishing fleets.
It's because they were canned in Japan.
Jesus....
You don't can bluefin tuna! At 75k a pop it isn't Starkiss!
LOL so now George Washington is using the Royal "We"?!
Well then Dr Benway will talk about himself in the third person, Napoleon style.
Dr Benway recommends all you tinfoil fools read up on natural background radiation, statistic significance and sample error, and what doses of radiation are safe.
Even the quoted article said it was below safe levels and just 3% higher than natural backgorund radiation. Dr Benway urges you all to be sure to wear your tinfoil hat when you eat your delicious canned tuna (yuk).
Back at your nuclear shillery, I see.
I think the nuclear con-artist contingent here at ZH, including you, that repeatedly and consistently make the false comparison between external and internal emitters are far beyond disingenuous, given the stakes involved. We all know you're making an illegitimate comparison, and yet you make it over and over again, as if saying it enough times will make it true.
Fortuntely, better information is coming along all the time. In order to drive home this distinction, let's take a look at some X-ray photographs, shall we?
1) X-ray image of a cypress tree. Image clearly shows random dispersal of radionuclides.
2) X-ray image of a small bird from Iitate Village. A similar pattern of random dispersal of radionuclides are present.
This is what every organism on Earth is going to look like soon, if it doesn't already.
And this is what our kids will look like: Chernobyl Heart.
Haha. I think I struck a nerve. 9 shills for every 4 real people... sounds about right.
Then you can go ahead and have some nucleotide emitting tuna. It is a free country right?
This seems like a non-sequitur; the point I was making is that this stuff is going to disperse everywhere: air, water, land, plant, animal, and there will no avoiding it.
I haven't eaten tuna for over 30 years and rarely ate seafood before Fukushima. These days, I eat as low on the food chain as I can. If folks want to eat species at the top of the food chain that have bioaccumulated a plethora of chemicals and radionuclides, they are certainly free to do so.