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Fukushima is Here.300dpi (2).jpg500 people assembled on October 19th on Ocean Beach in San Francisco and formed the letters with their bodies to demonstrate their growing concern about eventual fallout on the west coast. Credit and More Information: FukushimaResponse.org

An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America:

North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone FDA Refuses to Test Fish for Radioactivity ... Government Pretends Radioactive Fish Is Safe

The leg of the Gyre closest to Japan - the Kuroshio current - begins right next to Fukushima:

Kuroshio Current - Colour show water speed.  Blue slowest; red fastest

While many people assume that the ocean will dilute the Fukushima radiation, a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation. Physicians for Social Responsibility notes:

An interesting fact for people living on the US west coast is also included in the UNSCEAR [United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation] report: only about 5% of the directly discharged radiation was deposited within a radius of 80 km from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. The rest was distributed in the Pacific Ocean. 3-D simulations have been carried out for the Pacific basin, showing that within 5–6 years, the emissions would reach the North American coastline, with uncertain consequences for food safety and health of the local population.

The University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center created a graphic showing the projected dispersion of debris from Japan: https://web.archive.org/web/20130117080529/http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/users/nikolai/2011/Pacific_Islands/Simulation_of_Debris_from_March_11_2011_Japan_tsunami.gif Last year, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan:

After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10?4) off Baja California. *** With caution given to the various idealizations (unknown actual oceanic state during release, unknown release area, no biological effects included, see section 3.4), the following conclusions may be drawn. (i) Dilution due to swift horizontal and vertical dispersion in the vicinity of the energetic Kuroshio regime leads to a rapid decrease of radioactivity levels during the first 2 years, with a decline of near-surface peak concentrations to values around 10 Bq m?3 (based on a total input of 10 PBq). The strong lateral dispersion, related to the vigorous eddy fields in the mid-latitude western Pacific, appears significantly under-estimated in the non-eddying (0.5°) model version. (ii) The subsequent pace of dilution is strongly reduced, owing to the eastward advection of the main tracer cloud towards the much less energetic areas of the central and eastern North Pacific. (iii) The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels). (iv) By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific. ***

(“Order-of-magnitude” is a scientific term which means 10 times higher. The “Western Pacific” means Japan’s East Coast.) In May, a team of scientists from Spain, Australia and France concluded that the radioactive cesium would look more like this: A team of top Chinese scientists has just published a study in the Science China Earth Sciences journal showing that the radioactive plume crosses the ocean in a nearly straight line toward North America, and that it appears to stay together with little dispersion:

On March 30, 2011, the Japan Central News Agency reported the monitored radioactive pollutions that were 4000 times higher than the standard level. Whether or not these nuclear pollutants will be transported to the Pacific-neighboring countries through oceanic circulations becomes a world-wide concern. *** The time scale of the nuclear pollutants reaching the west coast of America is 3.2 years if it is estimated using the surface drifting buoys and 3.9 years if it is estimated using the nuclear pollutant particulate tracers. ***

The half life of cesium-137 is so long that it produces more damage to human. Figure 4 gives the examples of the distribution of the impact strength of Cesium-137 at year 1.5 (panel (a)), year 3.5 (panel (b)), and year 4 (panel (c)). *** It is worth noting that due to the current near the shore cannot be well reconstructed by the global ocean reanalysis, some nuclear pollutant particulate tracers may come to rest in near shore area, which may result in additional uncertainty in the estimation of the impact strength. *** Since the major transport mechanism of nuclear pollutants for the west coast of America is the Kuroshio-extension currents, after four years, the impact strength of Cesium-137 in the west coast area of America is as high as 4%.

Bluefin tuna on the California shore tested positive for radiation from Fukushima, and there are reports of highly radioactive fish in Canada. The CBS show The Doctors warned that we should be moderate with our fish intake, and children and pregnant women should be especially careful:

 

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Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:49 | 4100264 Fish Gone Bad
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This guy who ate Fukushima produce (on TV), every day for 30 days developed ALL.  Due the nature of the disease, it is a very good guess that he is also dead:

Japan TV host diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia — Had been eating Fukushima produce on show

http://enenews.com/japan-tv-host-diagnosed-acute-lymphocytic-leukemia-ea...

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:47 | 4100258 ebworthen
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And Chernobyl was staged and radiation really doesn't hurt people; but you got to worry about heavy metals, is that it?

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 00:20 | 4100332 SWH001
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Chernobyl was the only civilian reactor ever build without containment.  It was also a "materials reactor", one designed principally for Pu production and not civilian power production.  What happened was idiocy.  And the Soviets put a iron muzzle on reporting even when the Kiev poulation was heading out to the "fresh" open air for their May Day celebrations. Victims of the Cold War?  MAD and Pu producton has a key strategic factor for both sides. 

But then agian energy and industrial production is replete is deaths from accidents and idiocy. To wit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster - Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas .  8,000 died within two weeks and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases.   Is that more then Chernobyl?

Or:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

The dam failures killed an estimated 171,000 people; 11 million people lost their homes.   Is that more then Chernobyl?

 

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 05:45 | 4100608 Bearwagon
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Chernobyl the only reactor without containment? That's absolute bullshit. Chernobyl was a RBMK 1000 reactor, and all other reactors of the RBMK series didn't have a containment, just a thin hull, called "confinement". There are several of them, not only the ones in Chernobyl. By the way: The accident there was caused by human failure, automatic control would have prevented it.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 04:55 | 4100556 Ar-Pharazôn
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nobody will never know how many diggers the soviets sent to chernobyl. perhaps 50'000 in different waves

 

and how many do you think have survided? Pu is not U. far more dangerous.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 00:51 | 4100383 TNTARG
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You can't compare such different categories, my friend. Methyl isocyanate gas doesn't remain active for thousand of years. Radiation stays and it's accumulative.

TPTB have gotten their population reduction system. Problem is useful land, water and food are also in the process of being drastically reduced.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:37 | 4100232 George Washington
Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:45 | 4100256 SWH001
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George respectfully please submit the papers on which you rely for your opinion here.  A list will do.  Let's all read them.   I am interested in reading them.    

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 10:18 | 4101178 hardcleareye
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In George's linked article in the above post you will see the sources are cited via links.   Some of them are "blue chip" and very creditable.

Would you be good enough to cite the sources that have been peer reviewed to support your point of view and claims.

I too am interested and always enjoy learning. I have a open sceptical mind and understand the human's do not have absolute knowledge.

So please defend your POV with sources and cites!!!!

I await your response. lol

(I call BULLSHIT on your postings....)lol

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:35 | 4100230 Fish Gone Bad
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This guy died:  Masao Yoshida

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:42 | 4100244 SWH001
Tue, 10/29/2013 - 09:35 | 4101024 TheMerryPrankster
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Yet not all life long heavy smokers die from smoking. Hmmmm what could be a trigger? Radiation exposure? nah radiation is good for you and can't hurt anyone.

Lookup Radium Jaw sometime.

We are in a nuclear accident, living it day by day, with almost no reporting of what is going on and incomplete measurements of the scope and breadth of the radioactive releases, yet some can posit from a position of ignorance that there is not, nor cannot be any risk from this event.

I say bullshit.

It doesn't take a weatherman to figure out which way the wind is blowing.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 02:26 | 4100468 Not Too Important
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Then this must be BS, too:

'Fukushima Worker: I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2012, now stomach and intestinal cancers found recently — Each developed independently, not from one spreading — Worked at plant for just 4 months in 2011'

http://enenews.com/fukushima-worker-ive-had-surgery-bladder-cancer-now-s...

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:25 | 4100202 TradingTroll
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SWH001=ASSHOLE TROLL

 

Peer Review Jnl reported 14,000 infant deaths immediately after Fukushima:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medical-journal-article--14000-u...

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 00:00 | 4100291 SWH001
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Please post the original paper or a link to it.   Your web link seems more interested in Christie Brinkley and Alec Baldwin.  

 

 

 

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 05:20 | 4100580 kurt
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"Kill the pig, bonk bonk on the head"

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 03:16 | 4100502 Sedaeng
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Found the PDF of the paper cited, have not read it at this time:

Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman, International Journal of Health Services

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 11:53 | 4101395 SWH001
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Thank you.  This is paper is of highly questionable quality. 

ZH readers should be aware that Joseph J Mangano (MPH, MBA) and Janette D Sherman (MD), have been involved for many years in anti-nuclear activism.  

Mere publication these days unfortunately does not equal good science.  There is a major problem in the regard for many journals.   Please read:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-research-has-c...

 

 

 

 

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 12:57 | 4101852 TradingTroll
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Until you walk the talk, that is you go and live in Fukushima and eat local produce you have no credibility here.

 

Your character defamation attacks are the oldest lame trick in the book.

 

The fact that you are in denial proves your mental illness is extreme. You should not be blogging, you should be hospitalized.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:12 | 4100169 Money Squid
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George - from me and my friends in the Fukushima Prefecture we give your story three thumbs up.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 05:17 | 4100575 Peter Pan
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Are there three of you or does each of you have three fingers?

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 20:47 | 4099713 failsafe
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I wish I could get solace from eastern "who knows what's good and what's bad?" but this slow catastrophe just seems very bad.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 20:45 | 4099708 The worst trader
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Last good year for king crab I suppose?

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 21:44 | 4099907 Psquared
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No, they will be much bigger and will crawl out of the ocean onto W. Coast beaches to eat surfers and swimmers. Radioactive mutations. But the good news is you will never run out of crabcakes.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 04:44 | 4100546 Bloodstock
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You can get the crabs from a toilet seat.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 20:42 | 4099693 Zero-risk bias
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I remember two years ago that I was corrected for being concerned about this. The facts that naturally occuring unsafe amounts of radiation are found in many cities which use minerals in construction, such as granite. I had to admit that I was enlightened to know this, but I guess what really jarred with me, and still does, is that walking by a building, waiting for a train, or having a coffee in a bathroom showroom fitted with highly radioactive materials, is not quite the same as it entering the food chain in an unnatural way.

You may tell me that if I eat all of the grass on the planet, I'm likely to die of radiation sickness before I explode, yet doesn't quite quell the flames of concern that rest within my logical brain, which tells me that what I read and hear is often less than half of the real picture.

Yes. Radiation is by and large all around us, the Sun emits the stuff, our planets natural geological composition has a half-life. Yet, call me a tin-foil crazy bat shitter if you will, it's just that the credibility of media goes down with every passing day that I have been alive on this planet. And without credible mass-media sources, what is a delusional person to do? Make up his or her own theories?

Never. That's just irrational behaviour.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:28 | 4100208 TradingTroll
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Lets make sure we dont forget internal radiation, where atomic decay burns cells and mutates DNA, is way different from external radiation that meets the shield known as our skin, which protects us.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 21:24 | 4099830 Geruda
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Your concerns are well founded.   People confuse radiation with radioactivity...    Yeah, we naturally are exposed to all sorts of radiation.   What isn't natural and certainly is more dangerous for us to encounter is radioactivity, particularly in the food system that eventually deposits it in our scat.  Ionizing radiation is what makes the cells in our bodies go all freaky.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:51 | 4099525 robertocarlos
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San Francisco is beautiful.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 23:14 | 4100174 Money Squid
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now, but wait till the crazed radioactive mutants get through with it

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:27 | 4099448 SnatchnGrab
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Yeah, there's just one problem with the naysayers on this board.

 

Correct me if I am wrong but the radiation is STILL being pumped into the ocean. At levels well above what was originally reported.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:37 | 4099255 UrbanBard
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This is scare mongering.

You can tell this because the author never gives actual readings, just percentages. Most likely the author didn't give us raw data because those readings would be well within the normal background radiation we all experience. There is very little radioactive Cesium in the biosphere, so you can get a very high percentage from a harmless increase.

Another givaway was the author's promotion of a staged political event by anti-Nuke fanatics.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:51 | 4099524 Terminus C
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anti nuke fanatics... lol

Troll

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 02:23 | 4100466 Not Too Important
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Trolls collecting meager paychecks, hoping they and their families will be taken care of by their paymasters as they all start to die from untreatable cancers.

I can't blame them too much. Might have a mortgage to pay, medical bills for the kids. Lots of Nazi worker bees were only in it for the paycheck. It's the same everywhere.

But we are all going to go together, so we really should make peace with all this, and it starts with understanding what's happening.

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 07:49 | 4100739 old naughty
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Like attracts like (light attracts light).

We are all going to go together...But not end up same-where !

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:17 | 4099416 Not Too Important
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It isn't the cesium, or the strontium that replaces the calcium in our bones, that is terrifying. It's the thousands of tons of plutonium and uranium that was aerosolized into the atmosphere, and is circling the globe at 3,000 MPH. The thousands of tons of fuel rods that are still on-site, that have been burning and fissioning.

I don't even think the radioactive water flowing over the cores and into the Pacific Ocean - as bad as that is and will kill every living thing that swims, slithers or crawls, including the phytoplankton that provides over 60% of our oxygen - is as bad as what has and is still going airborne.

But that's just me.

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:36 | 4099252 SAT 800
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Not only that there's enough salt in the Pacific Ocean to kill everybody! So, be sure and not eat your body weight in salt next week. Poor George; completely ignorant; unable to understand simple artihmetic and emotionally pre-determined to believe that must be something wrong. There's something wrong alright; with a world in which George Washingtons exist in all their glorious ignorance; and people read their mindlless drivel.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:50 | 4099519 Terminus C
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troll.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:11 | 4099190 wisehiney
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Please don't move to the South. We are all toofless, ignorant, bible thumping rednecks here. It is horribly hot and humid. Everything here sucks. It is for your own good. OK?

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:30 | 4099234 Not Too Important
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You're not far south enough, Bubba. Maybe if you speak penguin.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:44 | 4099272 wisehiney
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No, but I do have Happy Feet.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:55 | 4099140 Serfs_Up
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1 plant down...only 400+ to go

yes I expect 100+ down votes - I'm with you

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 05:30 | 4099638 medium giraffe
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Regardless of your argument, you get +1 for the Rust In Peace album cover avatar Serf.  Good job.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:33 | 4099229 Not Too Important
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Unfortunately, you're right. They're all going to open to atmosphere at some point. Either through explosion or ionizing radiation, time will eventually take its' toll on all containment.

It's just a question of when, and the .001% hoping it all happens after they're gone. Not that they care about their kids at all, or they wouldn't have built them in the first place.

Good luck to you, Nelson IV.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:44 | 4099112 Peter Pan
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The big issue remains......how do they bring it under control?

Or can they ?

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 18:24 | 4099219 Not Too Important
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No, there is no way to bring it under control. Science never got that far. It's a match that should never have been lit - there's no way to put it out.

I don't know why you got downvoted. Sounds like a decent question to me.

Love those you can, pray for those you can't, and enjoy what's left.

Enenews is a good source for info, but it only gets more depressing as time rolls on. Read at your own risk.

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 21:15 | 4099810 George Washington
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Enenews is the best ... Lord, I hope it's reporting on dying starfish, dolphins, etc. etc. is just a coincidence!

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 19:06 | 4099383 Peter Pan
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I am with you. I guess I should have asked "can we?" Because this is a challenge for the whole of humanity as it has consequences for all of us.

 

 

Mon, 10/28/2013 - 17:27 | 4099068 Stuck on Zero
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If they parked a medium sized tanker next to Fukushima they could collect all the leaking wastes for for long periods.  On board the tanker they could concentrate the radioactive contaminants (except Tritium) in Zeolites adn then dispose of them.  The contaminants would be collected before being dispersed into the ocean.  Why doesn't anyone in Japan use any intelligence?

 

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