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Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
Painting by Jonathan RaddatzRadiation from Japan’s nuclear accident has turned up in seaweed on the coasts of California, Washington and other parts of the West Coast of North America.
The ocean is so big … how could this be happening? Why didn’t the gigantic Pacific Ocean better dilute Fukushima radiation?
A 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents.
MIT says that seawater which is itself radioactive may begin hitting the West Coast within 5 years.
In 10 years, peak radioactive cesium levels off of the West Coast of North America could be 10 times higher than at the coast of Japan.
As we’ve previously noted, Reuters reports that Alaskan seals are suffering mysterious lesions and hair loss:
Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats.
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“We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity,” said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
“There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage,” he said.
Here’s a picture of one of the injured seals:
We reported yesterday that a new scientific paper shows that the Fukushima radioactive plume contaminated the entire Northern hemisphere during a relatively short period of time, and Ene News today reports on a potential correlation:
Map from a study appearing in the upcoming edition of the journal Science of the Total Environment
(Note the blue line):
(The correlation is not exact … but close enough to ask whether the radioactive plume hit Western Alaska and was then carried around the coast by ocean currents.)
Radioactive fish are also being found off the West Coast.
A California-sized island of debris from Japan is also hitting the West Coast.
And West Coast residents have also been exposed to Fukushima radiation from the air. See this, this and this.
Indeed, some doctors claim that people living on the West Coast have already been killed from Fukushima radiation.
Fukushima … the gift that keeps on giving.
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They're not testing for radiation, George. From the Examiner source article:
No real Fukushima connection other than gathering updated (higher) background radiation in the ports.
The NRC had way too much to lose by providing accurate U.S. contamination figures - mainly their lucrative positions when they leave the NRC for those cushy private-sector jobs. They also had to help their evil-twin regulators in Japan supress or censor scary numbers from the Japanese people. Ratepayer deaths are just bad PR any way you look at it. No numbers means nobody can blame TEPCO or the Japanese government. Americans are just too stupid to realize the exact same thing will eventually happen in the U.S.
what is the schedule on that reactor #4 cover for their 264 T of Mox pool?
That is the #1 danger from what I can gather; not that we have any feedback on magma from the other three underground...
I have an old acquaintance who makes wine in the Hollister region of California. What does Radiation do to the wine produced there? Any local buzz on that?
Tepco stopped paying health insurance for its nuclear workers at Fuku, and many are talking of quitting.
Rumors are that workers say nothing much is being done by way of work ...
Not sure about Hollister, sorry ...
Keep checking ENEnews ... best news aggregator on radiation.
+10, always follow money, especially the insurance money.
If only someone had passed a law making nuclear disasters illegal, this could have been avoided.
If only archaic uranium reactor designs developed more than 40 years ago which are ONLY good for making bombs weren't still being used (And see this ... )
If only Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown, the Economic Meltdown, and the Gulf Oil Meltdown Didn't All Happen for the SAME REASON
Forty? More like nearly seventy. The big rush wasn't actually bomb material (like the military would ever have to worry about getting whatever they wanted anyhoo), but which design could be shoehorned into a submarine in the nearest time frame. LWRs won that game, and since everbody loves an off-the-shelf solution, LWRs were it for every other application. They've even tried to put 'em on planes.
"The reason everything is getting worse can all be traced back to the predators-that-be, the predator-class, and their endless dishonesty." Bullshit. It can all be traced back to human stupidity, cupidity, and chossing comfort over effort. Remember, most predators only prey on the weak and the sick, so if you're gettin' et, you need a better fitness program.
Surely this can be spun bullish somehow? 50% of CA population dies and since they were all on foodstamps and welfare the state can now make ends meet. Or something like that.
it could be the beginning of the end of all life on earth.
http://covert.ias3.com/expose/
Depends on, what terms you give it:What is life,is a rock life,most surtainly it is,its minerals,thats life to.
Life has no end,it just transform into something else,like when you/i goes we turn in to life for something/body else!
We should not, worry so much about us self,but worry about, what we give, to the future humans,that would be our children,and that dont look to good.
But...but...but Japan's PM said, "It's only a tiny leak....contained...."
I remember clearly.....
A bunch of random data points with no substance.
Seals? WTF...
Where are all those sick people?
Call me when you have some hard facts.
Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans
Which one of those 14000 develop radiation sickness?
To say that "study" is absurd is an understatement. It asserts some ridiculous claims about increased infant mortality in the 14 weeks immediately after Fukishima, and then makes the leap that it must be due to Fukushima. That's pretty much it.
I fully realize that TPTB lied like hell about the severity of Fukushima, and that the long term effects are likely to be catastrophic and result in many deaths over the long term.
Increases in low level radiation can marginally increase death rates over time. No one really doubts that. But radiation of no higher level than a few extra hours in the sunlight over 14 weeks, killed 14,000 people in the U.S. in just 14 weeks? Beyond absurd.
Here is a very good analysis of this wholly unscientific "study":
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/12/20/researchers-...
Note that it doesn't take a math wizard to extropolate this "study's" findings by accounting for the time beyond the initial 14 weeks and the increase in radiation during that time. Doing so would show that since Fukushima, at least a half million Americans have been killed by it already. Right...
Send me you mail address, I'll send you some nice Fukushima mushrooms, the wild ones, but the legal kind, at least 30km from the destroyed / blown / endless disaster / worst than chernobyl power plant.
give them to your kids and nephews, the younger the better. If you keep them in a straight diet you can really prove your gut feeling / life-wise experience.
If they find some strange brain tumor in a few years time, i'm sure it must have been the dammed sweeteners, or the fucking oil in all that sea food they love. pleantly to blame on.
by the way I hope you breath a nice piece of plutonium and die of lung cancer, after the kids brain tumor of course.
From Japan with love!
00Fukyou
any stats on how much health insurance costs nowas compared to pre tsunami, if you live near fukushima?
What exactly do radioactive fukushima muchrooms have to do with a bucket-load of hyperbole about the West Coast of the US mainland being poisoned? Are you even trying to make a rational point?
That was a bloody dirty rant i accept that, either way there is nothing rational about that fucking DNA carnage.
http://www.kachelmannwetter.de/japan/japan_mobile.html
So when the fire restart you know how many hours you have left to save your family.
Obviusly I don't wish kids to have brain cancer... don't do to other what you don't like to be done to you...
i ranted that way because I took one side and I gone to extreme of ranting on rational dialog because there is only way for me in this subject. commercial nuclear reactors only out of our planet and out of orbit...
George
Why write: "Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America"?
Why not write about Westinghouse/US Military Planning?
Poor Japan has it plate overflowing already---have a little more compassion in blaming because, after all, that was a big quake and a huge tsunami.
What about something like: "The Bill Comes Due to the West Coast of North America"?
If you think it is something now, wait until there is no ice in the Arctic and the winds and ocean currants change----this is going to be great fun for some observers
Thanks for your work, everything is sensational om
Then I guess its a good thing that Antarctic ice is at all time records:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/
Hey shark,
It is a good thing that we do not have so many people down here in the Southern hemisphere.
And, NO, this is not an invitation!
Actually, it is The Great Conspiracy: we paid HAARP to send all of your cold to the ANTARCTIC so we would not have all of those problems.
BTW, do you know how much of that ice is older than a year? We don't study our pole as much as we study yours----we don't want to know om
ps. I looked at your link but when I saw it was Forbes and the writer was---what'-his-name---I sent it to a friend of mine who is studying the Antartctic ice for a laugh---get me a better link for your position, please---thanks om
if you invented a means of increasing the reaction rate in a bussard core
would you even publish?
shouldnt nuclear have solved all our problems?
would unlimited, nearly free energy be the transhumanism catalyzing trigger?
is that not substantially more dangerous or problematic, in and of itself?
once you have an artilect that can manufacture its own components - isnt the only other thing required an energy supply that could allow it to decouple?
obscure organic computing concepts and dangerous perhapses as we choke on cesium i know...
transhumanism is for science fiction fans who are stupid enough to forget that the fanatsies they come up with can be decoupled from the reality of hard science and industrial manufacturing and research on the ground by real scientists using real tools.
it never ceases to amaze me how , having heard about the fruitless pursuit of the philosophers stone has been going on for as long as man has existed----transhumanists think 'this time is different'.
they are just dupes being sold a story that their fantasies can come true. and some of them are even conned into giving money for this.
the irony is that this bunch of people tend towards the secular atheist spectrum and yet, they believe in the kind of supernatural fanatasy worlds that you can find readily generated by any run of the mill religion.
Things are bad. Bernanke has contaminated the entire dollar ecosystem.
fukunanke?
ClusterfukuBennie
Harakiri Bennie? Sayonara fed.
no coal, no oil, no nuclear
welcome to the hunger games globalist porn scenario of neofeudalism
The Emerald Ash Borer - "don't move firewood". Another way to control energy? I'm afraid wood might be the energy source of the future for us soon to be peasants.
if you allowed the biggest players, who sit at your kiddy table (thanksgiving analogy) anyways, to operate in a criminally irresponsible fashion and then tip off certain incidents or engineer them out rightly... you could demonize hydrocarbons and nuclear
the net result would be to cripple western civilization by removing vital energy supply
just sayin...
Walking is good for your health. Just sayin
Japan is getting their nuclear house in order.
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Vowing no more disasters, new atomic regulator launchedBy KAZUAKI NAGATA Staff writer
The government launched a new nuclear regulatory body Wednesday that vowed never to let a disaster like the Fukushima triple meltdown occur again.
The new body — the Nuclear Regulation Authority — has been imbued with a high level of independence and authority. But it has a lot of work to do to win back the public's trust in nuclear power regulation after the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
"We are starting this new regulatory body under very difficult circumstances," Shunichi Tanaka, head of the five-member commission, said during its first meeting.
if they successfully handle fuku we'll talk turkey
in other news...
ever since we stopped getting sweet ass decomd russian nuke material for our plants the ball has gotten wilder, its very clear that in the US we are going to let our already dated infrastructure lapse criminally into the range of fuku et al.
as a person who lives some 30 miles away from Prairie Island, my concerns are of course for everyone south of Minnesota - but, needless to say the problem is vast
we should be building pebble bed infrastructure but all the development goes to emerging markets today where the people can be treated like cattle openly (as opposed to NA where the people get treated like cattle but we lie about this fact)
IN A COMPLETELY UNRELATED STORY (we assure you, copyright 2000 and forever, E PLURIBUS FOOL EM, INC. LLC):
"officials" have increased the amount of radiation you can get "safely" so everything is fine
We measure our own and get the air filters tested in Texas.
the only way to do it
and a powerful lesson about how a republic should work and individual sovereignty as well i think
today, the world is dominated by junk information, you have to go out and run the tests yourself.
what's your baseline analysis thus far HS? (assuming you get a chance to come back and read this)
poisoned to death amid skyrocketing energy costs as the madmen who own planet earth Make It Happen On Purpose and ride the sweet ass margins of that phenomenology curve all the way to the banking cartel they engineered as an economic straightjacket for anyone with the balls/energy to innovate.
we better not keep harping on the poisoning of the planet though or we might get funny looks from our peers - i mean perish the thought
whats wrong george why cant you write 2k words about justin biebler like a normal person and call it a day
surely you could get some faceboob kick backs for playing ball or something
what.... do you care about the fate of the human species or something?
Very Al-Qaeda sir...
LOVE that painting btw
I don't write on Justin Bieber, but I do have fun with stuff like this:
^_^
Fukubernanke... the gift that keeps on giving.