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West Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much Fukushima Radiation As Japan

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A professor from Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (Michio Aoyama) told Kyodo in April that the West Coast of North America will be hit with around 800 terabecquerels of Cesium- 137 by 2016.

EneNews notes that this is 80% of the cesium-137 deposited in Japan by Fukushima, according to the company which runs Fukushima, Tepco (click image for larger version):

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(a petabequeral or “PBq” equals 1,000 terabecquerels.)

This is not news for those who have been paying attention.  For example, we noted 2 days after the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that the West Coast of North America could be slammed with radiation from Fukushima.

We pointed out the next year that 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.

The same year, we noted that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna tested in California waters were contaminated with Fukushima radiation.

In 2013, we warned that the West Coast of North America would be hit hard by Fukushima radiation.

And we’ve noted for years that there is no real testing of Fukushima radiation by any government agency.

Indeed, scientists say that the amount of the West Coast of North America could end up exceeding that off the Japanese coast.

What’s the worst case scenario? That the mass die-off of sealife off the West Coast of North America – which may have started only a couple of months after the Fukushima melt-down – is being caused by radiation from Fukushima.

We believe that California's drought will break with a change in weather patterns.  But if it doesn't, desalinating radioactive ocean water won't be much fun ...

 

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Thu, 06/11/2015 - 05:08 | 6185609 Squid-puppets a...
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and btdt, how the fuck can george qualify the radiation levels of water spewing from the fukishima site when tepco are so wilfully obfuscating everything they possibly can about the place?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:30 | 6184490 Model T
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Basically, he's just ignorant, and easily deceived. Probably an innocent dupe of the Environmental Loonies he reads. That being said; for Christs' sake use the computer to do some research, people, don't listen to this self-promoted expert; who knows nothing about the most basic chemistry and physics.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:58 | 6184380 raywolf
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Vitamin Water.... Radiation Water.... what's the difference...... sounds like an IPO in the making.....

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:05 | 6185155 ShorTed
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Perhaps a viewing of Pandora's Promise might be instructive.  It's made by a bunch of former no-nuke environmentalists who've come to regard nuclear as the only real viable path forward for a peak/post oil world.
they even go so far as to visit Chernobyl and Fukashima with gieger counters in hand and talk to the people who still live there or have moved back!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMj-96hols

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:43 | 6185355 George Washington
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It turns out that nuclear is .

Mark Jacobson – the head of Stanford University’s Atmosphere and
Energy Program, who has written numerous books and hundreds of scientific papers on climate and energy, and testified before Congress numerous times on those issues – notes that nuclear puts out much more pollution (including much more CO2)
than windpower, and 1.5% of all the nuclear plants built have melted down. More information here, here and here.

Jacobson also points out that it takes at least 11 years to permit and build a nuclear plant, whereas it takes less than half
that time to fire up a wind or solar farm. Between the application for a nuclear plant and flipping the switch, power is provided by conventional energy sources … currently 55-65% coal.

Related:

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:42 | 6185884 Model T
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Ignorance is a terrible thing, George, and you're the living proof of it. It's not easy to get a real grounding in Physics and Chemistry, and you have to have the IQ to start with; but the least you could do is shut up.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:38 | 6185072 btdt
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george, I doubt you would recognize real science if it chpped down a cherry tree for you. not that there is much real science left these days.

you don't answer the issues I raised - all you do is an ADHD cut and paste links (hey it works for your cohorts, so what could be wrong with that? welcome to idiocracy.)

you have a very shallow understanding, so try doing the extra work needed to get up to speed - or don't post on the topic anymore.

you are too lazy to do the basic information gathering that a journalist or blogger should do: llike find out just how radioactive the water is that is leaking into the ocean.

the problem you cause with hysterical posts by not mudulating your volume is that readers can't distinguish the level of threat from this or that. We end up with people running around like chickens with their heads cut off. We end up with people concerned about the wrong things. We end up with people burnt out by disaster porn.

Fukushima was a very dangerous threat. Why? boil off of the spent fuel rod pools.That is a problem for plants all around the world. If the New Madrid fault went off - as it will some day - or if an EMP crippled the US, then there could be a dozen Fukushimas on steroids. That could be a hemisphere clearing event. So quit wasting time on Fukushima radiation dribbles and tell people about the lessons learned and not learned at Fukushima.

 

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:46 | 6185889 Model T
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Yes, idiocracy; he's sort of the poster boy for idiocracy.  "--shallow understanding---" is much too kind. He's a science illiterate who likes to get wound up from environmentalist propaganda; it's some kind of emotional disorder. As you know, very, very, few people have any training in rational analysis, or just plain, thinking; I wouldn't expect any impovement in his case any  time soon.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:47 | 6185894 Model T
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A whole list of meaningless and or crazy shit to waste your time reading; wow; you're a real asset, George.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:50 | 6184912 windcatcher
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Ouch! That must have hurt GW, smashing a troll’s balls between two bricks. I hope you had your thumbs out of the way. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:18 | 6184250 Goldilocks
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POINT OF VIEW/ Michio Aoyama: Fukushima radiation circulating but diluting in Pacific
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201311180001

Radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will dilute to negligible levels in the ocean, but the area close to the site remains a problem, the chief researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute said.

Michio Aoyama reported his findings... (More)

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:06 | 6184206 bytebank
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Radiation does not dilute it compounds just like interest. In a couple of thousand years maybe it will be half strength and that is optimistic.

I guess they will be making signs with "Forbidden Zone" on it soon ala Planet of the Apes.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:31 | 6184499 Model T
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It compounds by cutting itslef in half ? one definiton of illiteracy is not knowing the meaning of the words you attempt to use.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:31 | 6184662 Bay Area Guy
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You protest loudly enough to likely be a GE engineer or someone else in the nuclear industry.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:52 | 6185909 Model T
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No, idiot child, I don't have a dog in this fight.  I represent truth and knowledge; real education and a trained mind; concepts that are quaint, now; when anyone who doesn't support your wacka-mole views must be a member of some evil group. The evil group I belong to is called the highly intelligent and widely educated group. GE fucked up; big time; the Japanese fucked up; big time; but there are no consequences to this. there is no radiation arriving in North America; the whole proposition is simply crazy; it's impossible. Physically impossible and it's not on, you see. it's just not real. but that won't stop you from getting your daily emotional wind-up from the fear porn.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:08 | 6185960 Bay Area Guy
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Uh huh.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:57 | 6184176 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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So we need to test brave Sonya when she arrives, I would think she'll take advantage of the currents. I hope she's got a rad counter, just to pass the time.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/07/woman-solo-cross-pacific-ro...

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:22 | 6184049 apberusdisvet
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JUst one particle of Cesium, whether ingested or inhaled will attach to you body organs and likely cause cancer within 10 years.  The constant radiation over California means that you shouldn't buy California produce; you cannot wash off radiation; it's in the soil and becomes an integral partof the plant.  If you want to see how much radiation you are getting, go to netc.com and check out all the places that have CPM's of over 50 which, under pre-Fukushima guidelines, were cause for evacuation.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:32 | 6184500 Model T
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Proof that you can type anything on a keyboard. It's complete nonsense, of course.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:32 | 6185539 dreadnaught
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your comments prove that monkeys can use a keyboard

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:21 | 6184043 Laddie
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It was right after Fukushima that I found ZH. I thank God for it.
We have a government that WITHDREW the nuclear measuring devices a week after Fukushima blew. They have never been put back. They stopped testing food and water the same time. No milk has been tested for radioactivity since the first week of April 2011.

The government WANTS, DESIRES, Whites to go extinct. That is why they never tested imported goods for contamination.

Just in case anyone missed this:
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/43576
Radioactive cheese grater case shows lack of oversight
Wed, 06/03/2009
By ISAAC WOLF, Scripps Howard News Service

Who is in charge of protecting Americans from products made from radioactively tainted metal?

The answer: No one.

Another chain pulls cadmium-tainted kids' jewelry
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writers
Tuesday January 12 2010
LOS ANGELES – A second international chain store said it is pulling from shelves jewelry that lab tests show contained high levels of the heavy metal cadmium, and Chinese regulators said they will investigate dangerous levels of the toxin in children's jewelry being exported to the United States. Also, a U.S. senator called for hearings.

The jewelry and accessories store Claire's, with nearly 3,000 locations in North America and Europe, on Tuesday joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in saying it would stop selling any item cited in an Associated Press investigation of the presence of cadmium in cheap bracelets and charms.

Charms on a "Best Friends" bracelet sold at Claire's contained 89 and 91 percent cadmium, according to testing organized by AP, and shed alarming amounts in a procedure that examined how much cadmium children might be exposed to.

And vitamins, guess where it all comes from? You guessed it already! Yes, China, from 2000:

Chinese Vitamins - You Can't Escape Them!
by Walter Pittman

So now its Chinese ginger poisoning the world, along with Chinese toothpaste, Chinese farmed fish, Chinese pet food, Chinese pickled vegetables, Chinese honey and Chinese toys tainted with lead. The ginger is contaminated with aldicarb sulfoxide, a dangerous pesticide banned in America. Chinese toothpaste is contaminated with diethylene glycol, farmed fish and pet food with melamine, and pickled vegetables with DDVP, another dangerous pesticide.

It's because the federal government mandates the "fortification" of flour with vitamins and minerals, and because these vitamins and minerals are now manufactured in China. And so, as usual, the federal government is a part of the problem rather than the solution. In taking charge of your health you are on your own.

And besides vitamins, many other food additives are also made in China. Much of the artificial flavoring, vanillin, found in many baked products, is made in factories in Zhejiang Province, China, from the petrochemical benzene. Much of our artificial butter flavoring, diacetyl, is likewise made in China, from the petrochemical “natural gas.” Much of our sorbic acid, a preservative also made from “natural gas,” is made in China. Much of our artificial colorings come from the oil refineries of the Yellow River Delta of China. Much of our aspartame, too, comes from China.

And your meds too, but MDs I consult are quite happy about it, which ought to tell you something:
REPORT: Americans completely reliant on China for antibiotics
Monday 11:57 AM 02/17/2014
Christopher Bedford

The United States is nearly completely reliant on China for it’s supply of lifesaving antibiotics.

“The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics, steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now made exclusively in China,” The New York Times reported in the 32nd paragraph of a Friday article entitled “Medicines made in India set off safety worries.”

Indeed, 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of Bristol-Myers Squibb — the last American plant that manufactured the key ingredients for penicillin and other drugs — shuttering it’s upstate New York factory.

“Like other manufacturing operations, drug plants have been moving to Asia because labor, construction, regulatory and environmental costs are lower there,” the Times reported in 2009.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:58 | 6184376 Abbie Normal
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"The government WANTS, DESIRES, Whites to go extinct."

Because only Whites eat and drink...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:19 | 6184040 Pituary Retard
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Maybe Arizona Bay will be a result?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:47 | 6184706 DelusionalGrandeur
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https://youtu.be/uCEeAn6_QJo

Who knew he was speaking about the future.
A musical genius. Not just music, but a belief system.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:19 | 6184039 lordbyroniv
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I live on the East Coast so might as well be radiation hitting Somailia.

F those liberals.

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:40 | 6185353 PhoQ
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Just be glad those California liberal megafarm corporations aren't growing the vegetables you eat on the East Coast.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:45 | 6183909 large_wooden_badger
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Pacific ocean water balloons = turrist dirty bomb

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:39 | 6183890 Getting Old Sucks
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Don't go on a cruise ship anywhere in the Pacific.  Ships make their own water.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:29 | 6185484 conscious being
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Good point GOS.  These US Navy sailors got close to Fukashima conducting tsunami relief missions and look what happened to them.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cover-up-us-navy-sailors-disappear-as-government-doctors-bury-rruth-about-fukushima-radiation/5435745

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:02 | 6183996 unplugged
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and don't eat the (pacific) fish - order a steak instead

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:02 | 6186133 large_wooden_badger
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So much for the wild caught salmon, still tastes better than that pale-looking farm raised crap, even if it's arriving hotter.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:33 | 6184300 Sanity Bear
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in this brave new modern world you should never eat any form of sea life unless you caught it yourself from a place you're damn sure is clean of radiation and industrial pollutants

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:36 | 6183876 large_wooden_badger
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Fukushima, or the island of good fortune, if you will.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:34 | 6183871 847328_3527
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" See something, say something. "

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:35 | 6184305 ZerOhead
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Unless you're Barry Jennings or work for the Government...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:22 | 6183812 w a l k - a w a y
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Fukushima is puzzling -- why the world-wide "hands-off"?  What could explain that?  Beyond black?
Outside intervention?

Outside intervention, if/when it becomes factual, will require redefining an "Act of God".

What if technology exist to help remedify the situation, but its use would require "disclosure" of outside intervention?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:53 | 6184727 p00k1e
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The technology to clean-up the core problem won’t exist for another decade.  

 

Alternatively, are you implying world governments are colluding with alien entities in perhaps some type of DNA altering project that includes Fukushima?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:40 | 6184864 w a l k - a w a y
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 "The technology to clean-up the core problem won’t exist for another decade."

If advanced beings are involved, the assumption would be advanced technology.

Also, if ABs are running the reality here on earth, who's going to stop them from doing as they please? (in answer to "world governments colluding"). Better to play along with the program than to cause 'problems'

Too much evidence suggesting 'other worldly' (outside intervention) involvement in many different ways -- from military to religion to secret societies/rich-men intelligence operations to media, to education, to fiat money, to inadequacies of evolutionary theory, and so on.

Something seems out of place? The supposedly 'smartest guys in the room' -- the controllers who run the earth-side show -- seem utterly unconcerned.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:40 | 6184328 General Decline
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interesting comment

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:16 | 6183794 1033eruth
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Doesn't anybody think its odd, that the radiation doesn't dilute in an ocean as vast as the Pacific?  It stays in a very tight stream and takes the Gumball express right to our shores and never goes anywhere else between here and Japan.  Doesn't anybody else think there's something odd about this and who are these fucking scientists that don't think there is anything odd about that either.  

It just rides this conveyor that goes here, doesn't pass go, the Aleutions, Russia, Hawaii.....no place else, just as if it was delivered by Federal Express.  Verrrrrrrrry curious.   And yes, I've google searched the ocean currents for the Pacific Ocean.  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:21 | 6184459 Model T
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There's no stream; there's no diluting. There really isn't any "radiation". Individual radio-active atoms "go-off"; and emit their particle or gamma ray. The tiny particles of Cesium, which is a metal, fell out of the sky, into the Pacific Ocean; and sank. Period. End of story. they're being covered up by the down rain of organic detritus on the ocean floor, as we speak; never to be seen or heard from again; a perfect non-event. George has no knowledge; he doesn't know anything; and he likes to get all excited by mis-quoting invironmental mental cases out of context. it's good for page clicks; but it shouldn't be. Go look up Cesium; educate yourself. don't be too surprised when you find out George is full of shit; most of the bloviators on Internet blogs are; they didn't have time to get a hard science education, or the IQ, either; so they just woke up one day and decided they were an authority. You can't expect much from this process, and George just embarrasses himself in front of the 1/10 of one percent of lthe readers who are actually educated.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 03:39 | 6185544 dreadnaught
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actually if you want to see somebody who is "full of shit" you need go no further than the nearest bathroom mirror

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:08 | 6184011 Model T
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George is a little crazy; he believes what any environmental mental case says that he can dig up. It's a none event. There's no "there", there. Forget about it.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:40 | 6183893 George Washington
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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.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:54 | 6184711 1033eruth
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I went to that link and read everything there.  The only place it mentions anything about the 1955 previously classified report is in the title of the article.  

Again, this is fantastic proof, that you can print any lie you want and  people will believe it because they are too lazy to do follow up research.  People adamantly REFUSE to confirm anything they read AS A GENERAL RULE.  It is no different here on ZH. 

That article ALSO suggests that all the rubble that was swept out to sea was radioactively contaminated which would be another misstatement or lie.  The rubble from the tsunami destroyed towns has NOTHING to do with leakage from the reactor as the reactor didn't melt down until DAYS after the rubble was swept out to sea.   

But hell, who cares about doubting whatever anybody can cut and paste, huh?  Its much better to fear everything that moves and then ask government to cure the problem, for the children, of course. 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:57 | 6185923 Model T
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What did you expect; it's entirely obvious from the tone of his screed, and the other "references" he has, what you're going to get. Expecting scholarship from George is like looking for rain from a clear blue sky. He's an uneducated moron; standard American Citizen, type.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:00 | 6184748 conscious being
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Which link numbnuts? Why obscure what you are talking about unless your intent is to obscure what you are talking about?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:24 | 6184053 George Washington
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Also, MOST of the radiation blew out to sea, instead of over the land in Japan. Around 5% of the cesium which made it into the ocean ended up on West Coast of N.A. THAT 5% equals 80% of what landed in Japan.

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