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Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide ... and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast
We noted 2 days after the Japanese earthquake that radiation from Fukushima could end up on the West Coast of North America. And see this.
We started tracking the radioactive cesium released by Fukushima within weeks of the accident.
In fact, U.S. nuclear authorities were extremely worried about the west Coast getting hit by Fukushima radiation … but publicly said it was safe.
We reported that Fukushima radiation spread worldwide.
And we’ve documented for years that the failure to test the potentially high levels of radiation hitting North America is a scandal.
Sadly, we were right to be worried …
The Journal Environmental Science & Technology – published by the American Chemical Society – reported last year that airborne levels of radioactive cesium were raised by 100 to 1,000 times (what scientists describe as two to three “orders of magnitude“):
Before the FDNPP accident, average 137Cs levels were typically of 1 ?Bq m−3 in Central Europe and lower average values (<0.3 ?Bq m−3) were characteristic of northern, western and southern Europe.
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During the passage of contaminated air masses from Fukushima, airborne 137Cs levels were globally enhanced by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude.
Indeed, even hot particles and nuclear core fragments from Fukushima were found to have traveled all the way to Europe.
The French government radiation agency – IRSN – released a video of Fukushima cesium hitting the West Coast of North America. EneNews displays a screenshot from the IRSN video, and quantifies the extreme cesium spikes:
- Cesium-137 levels in 2010: 0.000001 mBq/m³ of Cs-137 (blue writing)
- Cesium-137 levels in Mar. 2011: 1 to 10 mBq/m³ in Western U.S. (orange plume)
- Cs-137 levels increased 1,000,000 – 10,000,000 times after Fukushima
Levels on the West Coast were up to 500 times higher than estimated. Cesium levels from Fukushima were higher than expected worldwide, including in the arctic region of Europe:
Radioactive cesium bioaccumulates in large fish and animals.
The radioactive half life of cesium 137 is usually 30 years. But scientists at the Savannah River National Laboratory say that the cesium at Chernobyl will persist in the environment between 5 and 10 times longer – between 180 and 320 years.
And the Fukushima accident has pumped out some entirely new forms of radioactive materials … in “glassy spheres“, buckyballs, ball-like spheres, and bound to organic matter. Scientists don’t really know how long these new forms will last …
The Day Tokyo Got Blasted by Fukushima Radiation
On March 15, 2011, the winds shifted …
The Fukushima radiation which had been blowing out to sea suddenly turned and hit Tokyo:
The image is a screenshot we took from a video released by the French government radiation agency, IRSN.
As we’ve reported for over 3 years, Tokyo got nailed by radiation. For example:
We knew what happened. Now we know when …
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In reply to Lore:
“Dr. Cullen is in the process of trying to build a network along the coast to measure the incoming radiation.” How pathetic is that Lore? Do you see a major effort by your Canadian government to monitor the radiation? Do you think that your government, it it knew, would tell you not to eat the fish?
Your statement that “we're in the midst of the best salmon run in a century”. I find that statement hard to believe with the collapse of the Pink, Silver, King and Chum salmon stocks from historical levels. You must be quite young. Ha. Ha.
Your condescension seems misplaced and strangely glib. The salmon catch is the leading item on the news tonight: best run in 104 years. Local fishermen are screaming for Ottawa to lift the caps imposed previously. You must understand by now that most alarmism by government bodies and lobbyists is self-serving. Local natives knew last year's scare was bullshit, though: salmon come and go with cyclical changes in ocean currents.
You're right about the CFIA. I have confirmation in writing that they stopped testing shortly after the tsunami.
I've spent countless hours researching ways to block - or get rid of - radiation from the human body.
I've found a way to flush it all out.
Drink a twelve pack of cheap beer...nightly.
"Git your glow on!"
Thanks for all you do GW.
I would recommend further research on your minerals. When calcium is comsumed in less than a 1:1 ratio with magnesium, your asking for it to be deposited in your soft tissue (arteries). Heart attacks & stents anyone? Miffed can tell you that you K2 is also necessary for it to be absorbed in your hard tissues. When your minerals get out of whack, I can tell you from experience that you're looking at a rapid decline in health. With Rottenfellar medicine doctor's do no have a clue. Minerals have complimentary combinations with both positive & negative charges. Boron was alsom given in large doses during the Chernobyl meltdown.
May I recommend 3 books?
Minerals for the Genetic Code - excellant source.
Chemistry of Man
Epigenetics
+1 Thanks for that George. I have to tell you that your posts have been very important as has Tyler's and I've gotten SO MUCH good information on what counteracts ingested/inhaled radioactive materials through the POSTERS here at ZH, a truly remarkable website, on the EDGE.
George in your linked article you mention:
DTPA for plutonium, americium and curium
What is DTPA and is it over the counter or prescription only, such as Prussian Blue is????
Okay, so what?
Nothing anyone can do about Cesium. Iodine only protects the thyroid from Iodine isotopes.
Alex Jones won't tell you that, though. He needs you to buy a drop of iodine in sugar water for $20 a bottle.
molon labe
Where was Chelsea when it mattered?
Reporting on things that really mattered.
She was out trying to care about money. But she couldn't.
^ As long as she tried, (& was in California), that's fine by me.
Hey, who voted me down? - A family member, or someone with an irony deficiency?
Speaking as a fellow huckleberry and under orders from a Tyler, "downvotes without reply on a legit post are badges of honor."
In other "news" Anybody know how much G.E. got back from the I.R.S. last year? G.E. owns NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC. Where Chelsea "worked"
Safe clean nuclear power ...
When a coal plant blows up, there's a fire and a couple people may be killed.
When a nuclear plant blows up, the entire continent must be evacuated forever.
I've noticed that nuclear power advocates just assume a magic solution to safely disposing of and storing waste is just going to fall out of the clear blue heaven ... any minute now ...
Yes, but is this a problem of nuclear power, or is it a problem of MIC controlled fed gov.? The logical form of nuclear power would have been thorium, with .001% of the danger. Modern uranium based nuclear power was chosen because they could make plutonium for war purposes. Please, keep your eye on the target, which is MIC controlled nat. gov. With Thorium there is no chance of the plant blowing up and polluting the whole world. In fact, almost 100% of the current problems facing the world are a direct result of too effing much government. I could just scream everytime I hear otherwise intelligent people propose more government action as a cure for a government caused problem.
It is right to be suspect of anything done by people who can not be fired, (for anything short of child porn)
"A Man Of Many Perversions" – Federal Cybersecurity Head Convicted Of Child Porn Chargesand will retire in 20 years with a full pension. 100% of them will have this path, regardless of I.Q. and work ethic (unless they question the patronage system.)
People should be downright terrified if these type of people are the ones who set in motion and regulate projects like nuclear reactors that must be maintaned, and improved continuously for generations. Natural selection starts working in reverse when the opposite is needed. I appologize for referencing the ZH thread about the head of U.S.A cybersecurity, but it is relevant in this scope, context and other current geo-political events (war on terra)
Life on this planet has been through many Asteroid impacts, Krakatoa level volcanic eruptions, multimillion km^2 forest fires, ice ages, heat waves, massive atmospheric comp variation, open veins of coal, methane, NG burning for hundreds of years. As you mentioned, many creatures died. But trillions more adapted and thrived over 3 billion years (est.). Man-made nuclear isotopes have only existed for 100 some years. There is no possible way higher order species can adapt in that amount of time or even the next 1,000 years. If a coal/LNG plant is "walk away" abandoned, within 300 years, you would never know it existed. Nature would take it back, even the trace amounts of nasty stuff like PCBs. If a nuclear plant is "walk away" abandoned for 30 years, everything within 300 miles will be dead.
sarc: But yep, lets set up a global, extraordinary complex system of taxation, and enforce with gunpowder weapons, to fight global warming. That would be better than the corporate immunity + .gov sovereign immunity that was absolutely required to create the nuclear power industry. /sarc Or maybe it is the exact same method, and the results will be different this time? 4G reactors are finally earthquake proof? Fail-Safe-Safe? Where have we heard this before?
@Madcow, LFTR is the future, but the wealthy greens have captured our govt and are making a killing on inefficient, intermittent, wind and solar. One needs to look no further than Germany and Spain for the reality of this malinvestment of precious taxpayer dollars.
green is a misnomer
SFPs, doncha know?
dbl post, excuse me 'n win7
...most folks are numb about this. They find it hard to take in new info. They are losing their jobs, house and need to buy two sacks of groceries for $100. They want an EBT card, yet are too proud to fill out the forms.
Fed Res plan is working out perfectly, even without an unseen threat to their very biological existence.
One huge problem is that "folks" that live in Ecotopia (all areas north of Berkeley) are so in love with their lifestyles that it would never dawn on them to depart Paradise. At least thei cloudy-overcast version of it. People in PNW are so concerned about bike trails and their eco-snobbery to even consider clearing out. The place is filled with self-delusionists from all over North America. And they landed right in the target zone, eating their granola and banning plastic bags for shopping.
Sorry, but I could not envision a more worthwhile adversary than Godzilla showing up in high falootin' PDX delivering them a humbling blow. The place is filled with Chowderheads of the 9.0 on the PinHead Scale.
Went to Philmont Scout Ranch a couple of years ago (I was a prominant local Scouter).
Went to the reception area to see where I was assigned. I was issued a tent mate. I asked, "Where's he from?"
The guy in charge looked over his stuff..."Um, Berkley"
Me: "Lotta Commies there."
The guy in charge got so tickled he had to run to not piss himself.
What...?
Just another diatribe of hate.
People that like to hate other people and hope/wish/plan something bad will happen to them because they have a different point of view.
Found world wide.
Bad is coming, and sometimes haters have a place.
Everyone is too blinded by "Global Warming" myths to worry about brain tumors, thyroid cancer and leukemia from Fuki radiation.
Time will inform them.
That is my observation as well, having lived in the area and attempted to discuss current affairs even with family members without success. All you get is damaged relationships from having threatened their cherished delusions. They will parrot "sustainability" Agenda 21 rhetoric with religious zeal, but question anything or try to talk about real crisis and you get blank stares or anger and dismissal.
The devilish cleverness of 'Green' ideology never ceases to amaze me. At the bottom, it gives losers and disenfranchised a sense of self importance and community while simultaneously rendering them susceptible to manipulation and exploitation ("to save the Earth"), while at the top, it strategically 'sustains' the fascist oligarchy. Its hold over the minds of believers is astonishingly strong. It is truly a brilliant mechanism for social control. Whoever first "came up with the idea" (direct quote) at the Club of Rome deserves some kind of booby prize. Unfortunately, like all Marxist-elitist-collectivist schemes, it misallocates and destroys capital and handicaps human adaptation. Rgds
Every time you save some water or electricity, the gubmint sells it to a developer so we can have new construction. Anyone who really wants to kill sprawl, excessive breeding, and over-consumption will remember to do the opposite of what he or she is told. The true environmentally sound mindset is therefore to flush twice and leave all the lights on. The only thing better for the environment would be to have no children, which most rubes never consider.
the rubes probably do get to it last but the degree to which women around the globe are having fewer children is striking. the population replacement rate is about 2.1 children born per woman on average. the cia list of countries by total fertility rate shows 224 countries from niger at 6.89 to singapore at 0.8. every one below turkmenistan at postion 108 to the end is set to shrink or actually shrinking in population. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/21...
and as a sidenote, as shown by wikipedia's map of total fertility rates, the area of highest growth corresponds closely with the ebola outbreak (not to mention aids, etc.). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
Radiation exposure can diminsh fertility. I guess we know how humanity ends.
we poison ourselves to make a few dollars, suicide the food chain and the environment in which it exists.
They say most men can see past their dicks, but I'd have to say most of humanity can't see past their wallet.
On the upside we won't need to build more roads or schools....
Better analogy: most of humanity can't see past their debt. And who is to blame for that?
Humanity is to blame for that.
People are stupid.
People are stupid because they're handicapped by a bad system with central banking at its core.
Canoe - You're right to question dogma. Travel outside settled parts of the world, and ask yourself if the premises foisted on you in mainstream culture REALLY have any merit, or if their chief purpose is to serve as manipulative instruments of control.
I ask my friends if they are in favor of legislation to curb global warming. Almost all are in favor.
Then I ask them what they think that means. Some realize it means reduced energy consumption.
But not one thinks it will force them to change their lifestyle.
Protect the environment now!
You mean global Cooling, right? :o)
You do realise it's technocratic global plantationist garbage?
Naw, he means global warming. There are so many liberl arts educated, scientifically illiterate, poliltically correct, social sponges in the NW, Trying to have an intelligent discussion with them is like talking to a tree.
You guys do realize this could be the end of homo sap, and everything else on this planet. And we don't even have a big face carved out to remind others, like they did on Mars. What a waste!
Bitchez!!
I find that some of the most ardent, politically-correct worshippers have extensive scientific indoctrination education. They're essentially walking receptacles, like religious fundamentalists, stubbornly naive to past cons. A little more Social Science might free their minds but would hurt their ego and undermine the credibility and legitimacy of their collective, hence their typical fervor and rigorous, dangerous intolerance. They truly believe that they know better than you how to run your life. Rgds
Kill the photo plankton, kill the planet.
Agent Smith was right.
Yeah, that plankton was never very photogenic.
"One huge problem is that "folks" that live in Ecotopia (all areas north of Berkeley) are so in love with their lifestyles that it would never dawn on them to depart Paradise."
And go where exactly? It's not like that shit all just settles West of the Cascades/Sierras and everywhere East of that is a pristine environment.
if radiationnetwork.com is any indicator, WA/OR aren't really getting hit. rads are higher in cali. 'hottest' states seem to be more or less 4 corners CO/UT/NM/NV, and others such as PA. must be something about the air currents where WA and OR aren't really getting it. or... radiationnetwork is mistaken...
'hottest' states seem to be more or less 4 corners CO/UT/NM/NV, and others such as PA.
Lots of nuclear tests in the 4 corners area, and PA was a big coal mining state for many years (thorium and uranium in the coal dust).
I live in Ecotopia, in the NW. I can tell you absolutely that Buttmint's comment is spot on.
The ecco-paradise people are in the densest concentrations east of Fukashima, but still they sit like the slow-boiling frog. Sheeple-Nation gets Radiation.
What happens when governemts colapse and nuke plants go full retard?
Did you see, the NRC now allows spent fuel to be stored in on-site ponds INDEFINITELY. What could possibly go right?
Indefinetly in this context simply means until the reactor goes critical from the fuel overheating due to cooling failure.
At this point they move the security fence out about 20 miles and put up signs and declare bankruptcy.
Best place to keep the radioactive waste is on site, then there is only one massive contamination superfund site.
I suggest we market camo covers that make the spent fuel pile look like furry bunnies so we won't worry about them.
The same thing happened to the velociraptors who were running the nuke plants for the dinosaurs 65.1 million years ago... But don't worry, the cockroaches can handle anything Fukushima can throw at them.
Of course, the really scary thing is all the effort being made to deal with global warming while Fukushima is largely being ignored globally, yet it is a much larger 'Clear and Present Danger'