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West Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much Fukushima Radiation As Japan
Painting by Jonathan Raddatz
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):
(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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Cesium is a metal; George; it doesn't float. You really are an idiot.
looks like the Jackass (Model T) got busted by WIKI! An apt name for you-your thinking/reasoning is as old as a model T-prehistoric
Sodium is also technically a metal. There is a lot of that floating around the ocean.
Model T:
I took your advice and looked it up. A couple of paragraphs at Wikipedia proves you are a jack ass.
Cesium 137:
"It is among the most problematic of the short-to-medium-lifetime fission products because it easily moves and spreads in nature due to the high water solubility of caesium's most common chemical compounds, which are salts."
I don't know what your sick agenda is, Mister, but you have insulted a lot of people here when you are entirely wrong.
I will stick with George Washington. He has proven, time and again, his concern for his fellow human beings. You have certainly proven the opposite.
Nuclear Fuel Fragment from Fukushima Found In EUROPE
It's easy to push the down arrow, eh? but you're too lazy to go look it up, right here on this computer and find out that Cesium really is a metal and it really doesn't float ? Why ? why are you so lazy. Learning things is good for you; you''ve gotta long ways to go before you g et to the other side of the propaganda curtain; George is just The Kindegarten level lying fool with an agenda.
well, when you prove yourself to be a moron time after time, people do tend to hit the 'down' button. Sorry if you cannot face reallity--stop whining-seeing a 'grown' man whine like you is unsettleing lol
You MUST work in the Nuke Industry
Why is it so easy for you to spew lies all day about a public health matter? What is dust? Metal particles will stay airborne as dust particles for days.
Zero percent of the Cesium that made it into the Pacific Ocean ended up anywhere but on the bottom of the Ocean; You're a idiot, George; ignorant of the basic facts of chemistry and phsyics. I don't mind you scaring yourself with your non-existent ghosts and bogeymen, but I wish you'd dummy up; as the average level of education in the populaton is exactly where yours is; stuck at zero.
I had to upvote you for the magic sinking cesium theory - that's going to be a classic. Not banana-dose funny, but close.
"I swear - it sinks like a FUCKING ROCK. It's scientific FACT."
Sure there could, uh huh and take the number of miles that radiation has to ride that current from Japan to the US and embrace that absurd confidence that you place in a 1955 US GOVERNMENT report. (BTW, its not as the crow flies either) and you get a FAT thumbs down for blind faith in a report that contradicts common sense.
I love the 9 thumbs down and counting from the number of people that have had their psyche destroyed by the propaganda from the "scientists" (whose agenda and employer is unknown). All of their trust placed placed in unknown "scientists" simply because an article says that we are doomed by Fukushima radiation.
Extrapolate from the above example of the paranoid schizos and you will find that a number of ZH readers believe in FEMA camps and chemtrails. Thumbs away, FREAKS, you deserve your lot in life.
Yeah well sorry for you paid .gov shill, but The National Cancer Institute among others disagrees with you. FYI, Cessium is not the only poison being emmitted.
Aren't you the simple minded retard. Government WANTS YOU TO FEAR. Am I asking you to fear? There is no way I can force an epiphany down your throat, but take comfort that lots of people will give you a thumbs up. Same for Obama, not once but twice AFTER people should have learned.
You are the government.
Pay attention; Cesium is a metal; it doesn't float. it combines with other stable ions and sinks. Period. None of it made to anywhere; it fell out, as fall out does, on the suface of the Ocean, and sank. Period. Never to be seen or heard from again. Do you enjoy scaring yourself with lies and dis-information ? Why not check the facts, it's easy.
THAT explains the massive layer of sodium salt on the floor of the ocean and the fresh water near the surface! Sodium and cesium sinks like a fucking ROCK!
I would put more confidence in a 1955 government report than I would put in one from 2015.
Just saying.
I certainly wouldn't solicit your confidence; or ask you to pay any attention to my opinion, or anyone elses opinion; I would however reccomend that you look up Cesium, right here on this computer you're typing on, and find out that it's a metal; it reacts immediately with other ions, and theproducts sink; to the bottom; and they stay t here. Of no concern to anyone. It's no more possible for a Cesium atom to reach California then it is for a rock that someone threw from the shore in Fukushima.
well re-google it. its right there
It is odd, almost as odd as the thousands of oil filled tankers sunk during WW2 no one talks about. But, let a few drums of oil float off today and the world is coming to an end.
Then we had common sense, and a sense of proportion; now we got George. And universal Brain Failure.
Small airborne particles of plutonium were released at Fukashima, so I don't know what your .gov troll point is. You could have worked for the AEC in St. George, Utah back in the day.
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/radiationdeathanddeception.html
How about this MSM version from the Washington Post?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601606.html
The National Cancer Institute on Chernobyl
"An international team of researchers led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health found a clear dose-response relationship, in which higher absorption of radiation from I-131 led to an increased risk for thyroid cancer that has not seemed to diminish over time."
The most sacred shrine in the FSA is the U.S. Arizona memorial. Stand there and watch the oil seep up to the surface and not a peep out of anybody. Funny, there is no slick because the microbes love the stuff. Those critters even eat the Mercury to form methyl mercury.
Well, fuck me running, say it ain't so. Truth is, other than concentrated radioactivity insignificant humans can't really pollute shit. It's all just more of Mencken's Hobgoblins. Radioactivity is causing the magma to stay molten according to some science rags. It's not like man has created anything except maybe plutonium. I'm much more worried about fish genes in my grits.
Yes; man has made Plutonium; but it's basically harmless, except in the form of small airborne particles; which are hard to come by, except as products of Fission Bombs. You can carry an ingot of pure Plutonium around in your shirt pocket for twenty years with zero biological effect. It's an Alpha emitter, and the part icles can't even penetrate normal skin; or your shirt.
what about mox rods burning up plutonium ? You can breath that shit in or it can be injested through liquid or eating seafood ?
Look it up, by all means; it's simple a scientific fact. I'm all in favor of your learning something.
why dont we all chip in and send the old fart Model T to live in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant
OK, let's say in an overly-contrived example, you managed to get your hands on supergrade Pu-239. Incredibly expensive to purify of Pu-240, but necessary so the weapons guys on subs don't get brain cancer after a month or two from the warheads. So, maybe only 2% Pu-240 and the rest Pu-239. I'm assuming you're not using Area-51 alien technology to produce 'pure' Pu-239, which is basically unheard of except in minute lab quantities. For you 'slug', let's say 50g - about the weight of ten U.S. nickels but only the height of a stack of five or so.
Now while it's true that Pu-239 only throws out an alpha before decaying to relatively harmles U-235 and that alpha is not penetrating. It is rather slow though and has a +2 charge, so it will affect a number of atoms along it's decay path - about one every angstrom. But that would only be some molecules in your shirt or the layer of dead epidermis that covers your skin. No problem there.
The accompanying recoil of the original decaying plutonium nucleus during the release is far more intersting though. Plenty of energy to move itself (now a U-235 atom) and other atoms or molecules. In fact, an interesting characteristic of plutonium contamination is that it sort of spreads out on it's own, with particles creeping away from the original contamination by hopping a few microns at a time from recoil.
A single alpha decay can and does physically throw clusters of undecayed plutonium atoms through the air or whatever medium it might be in.
Now that relatively safe slug in your pocket is fine, but some decay will result in airborne clusters of undecayed plutonium. If you're unlucky enough to breathe those sub-micron particles in, they may get lodged into the deepest recesses of the aveoli in your lungs. If they do, then you have a cluster of several undecayed Pu-239 atoms. But you're talking a half-life of 24,100 years for God's sake. What are the chances that even one of those blows while you're still alive?
In the rare event one of those does decay in your aveoli, then it's still only going to be a relatively harmless alpha, right? Well, yeah - except that inside your lung, it's going to roast maybe a hundred chromosomes and ionize a lot of fluid in it's path. That's those nasty free-radical things that you don't want because they cause other general havoc within cells - some think moreso that the chromosome damage. And the alpha recoil is going to move that plutonium particle somewhere - maybe out into your lungs where you can expell it, maybe deeper into your lung tissues where it might decay again. Toss-up. ICRP says 100 micrograms of plutonium will guarantee lung cancer, so don't breathe while you have the slug in your pocket. That's like a quarter of a grain of salt's worth. Twenty-years of a self-spalling slug? Er... how many micrograms is that gonna be?
Since we're using a super-refined plutonium, we still have to account for that 2% Pu-240. The Pu-240 that's going to get spalled around when either it or the Pu-239 alpha decays. Pu-240 decays a lot faster than Pu-239, but let's just call it a wash. After a couple of alpha decays, you get to the long half-life Thorium-232. Th-232 probalby won't decay. If it does, then that's a fairly quick cascade of six alphas and four betas. Still relatively harmless inside your pocket. Exceptionally bad if that Th-232 cascade happens deep in your lungs or in your bone marrow, though.
Plutonium is a bone seeker, so as you observed, don't chew or swallow the slug. In fact, don't let it get sweaty if you are because it's moderately adsorbed through the skin like a lot of metal salts. The biological lifetime in bone is 100 years, so if any gets into your body it will end up in your bones and stay there for life. 1.5 micrograms is more than enough to impare your immune system - enough to cause cancer in a few years. A corroding plutonium slug in your pocket for twenty years is probably a particularly bad idea.
But let's not forget the 30 neutrons/kg/sec from spontaneous fission of the Pu-239 and 1M neutrons/kg/sec from Pu-240. For the 50g slug, that would be about 1.5 neutrons/sec for Pu-239 and 1,000 neutrons/sec from the Pu-240 coming off the slug. They're higher-energy so no particularly hazardous even considering the extra gamma. Maybe a little chromosome damage to organs near the slug (your heart, for instance) but you're not going to flop over dead in a week. Neutron-activation of other crap in your body will result in other exotic short-lived radionuclides. Those aren't dangerous, are they? One bannana dose max. Maybe two.
Now if you're talking about a slug of much more common reactor-grade plutonium with maybe 25% Pu-240, well... it would be most unwise to carry a slug of that around. That's a lot of damn neutrons banging against your chromosomes and other stuff in your body.
So you seem to be technically incorrect on several counts, but I'm no nuclear scientist. I'm just some idiot on ZH. Banana radiation will probably kill you before the slug will.
Please do me a favor though: if you DO plan to carry a slug of harmless plutonium around and you're a male, please carry it in your front pants pocket as close to your gonads as possible. You'll be doing all of the rest of us on earth a big favor. Trust me.
I'm in Oklahoma. Was talking with a woman yesterday who said she's moving to California next year. I told her she was nuts. Just because of the dorught. I've kind of forgotten about fuckushima, been so quiet on that subject, it's easy to forget. Next time I bump into her, I'll mention this as well.
I bet she is going to be glad seeing you again.....
You're totally ignorant; and one can only hope people have enough sense not to pay any attention to you.
Was the woman's name Ma Joad?
Don't forget ...
Sales tax of 10.5% (Even up to 11% in some places).
Unaffordable housing, getting worse by the day.
A political climate that defies characterization; e.g., a law that protects your child's right to go out and piss on playground equipment if he thinks (or says) he's a dog.
Henry Waxman. Barbara Boxer. Nancy 'Big Tony' Pelosi. DiFi and her brood. And they're really not the worst, if you can imagine.
English as a second language.
If she's so clueless as to not understand what that portends, let her go. She'll fit right in.
By 2016 California will be a de-populated desert where only glow-in-the dark scorpions roam.
Let's hope so.
and of course, roaches
This sucks because I really like almonds.
At least Fukishima finally is able to brag about reducing nuclear pollution to 20%.
The Pacific is generally colder than hell, maybe the new hot water will be turned into new resorts.
A few peta-becquerels of Cesium?? [derisive snort!]
The government has been desperate to cover up the fact that fresh short-lived radionuclides from recent fissioning have been blowing over the U.S. - the God damn cores are still fissioning (wherever they are under the plant) and are still burping out massive quantities of mostly undetectable lethal radiation. They have nothing left except pervasive censorship of monitoring stations or distracting the easy-to-fool public by measuring the least dangerous radionuclides and proclaiming everything is OK.
Cesium is bad enough, but have you ever heard of anyone dying of cesium radiation poisoning? Ever? Then ask yourself WHY THE FUCK they keep measuring that over and over and over again?? I know 50 nanograms of polonium-210 can kill me. Tell me how much of that shit is raining down on me from the jet stream right now. Tell me how much of that is in Pacific seafood. Fuck your useless cesium measurements that are nothing but a ruse to distract everyone from the seriously fucked-up radionuclides from fresh fissioning.
How bad is it? Bad enough that both the U.S. and European public radiation monitors are regularly turned off by the governments for a day or two when really high levels are detected. They've been doing this ever since day one. They've had to do this more frequently lately. Something REALLY bad is happening again at Fukushima. When they get to those kind of acts of desperation, you know they have absolutely no control of the situation. They're just trying to hide the new active fissioning from the public so nobody panics. This has nothing to do with their useless clean-up stuff in the plant itself - it's the cores that melted through the reactors. They can't anywhere near them even if they knew where they were.
They can't dump lead, concrete or anything else down the melt-hole under the reactors to quench the radioactive lava. There is no way to turn it off or seal it. It's at or below the mountain-sourced aquifers that run under the plant and empty just offshore into the ocean. There's no way to seal an entire aquifer, and the water near the cores would just boil and steam and vent into the atmosphere (even more than it is now). No ice wall is going to save anybody - it was meant as a fucking PR stunt by TEPCO from the beginning.
Fukushima Daiichi is not in cold shutdown and never was. It just turned into a series of three dirt-pit open-air nuclear reactors burning away somewhere underground. A hundred tons of fissioning molten plutonium and uranium does not just 'burn itself out' in a couple of years. That's not the way it works.
One banana dose max. Maybe two.
Please explain to us how lethal radiation can at the same time be mostly undetectable?
Polonium is an Alpha Enitter, and is harmless unless you eat it. It also has a very short half life, so you'll have to eat it pretty quickly. Also 50 nano-grams will not kill you. You wallow in ignorance and bombast; your natural habitat. You know absolutely nothing, and you don't care to learn anything; all you want to do is ventilate and try to find an audience for your ignoant nonsense. Pathetic.
"...Polonium is an Alpha Enitter, and is harmless unless you eat it..."
Thanks, Einstein. I was worried about making socks, a vest and maybe a nice pair of earings out of it, but I guess I'm safe if you say so. Hint: if it's in the air, then it's in the rain, in the sea, in surface drinking water and in our food. If you smoke, then you'll be safe knowing all particulate alpha emitters are readily captured by the sticky trichosomes on tobacco leaves. If you like honey, you'll be safe knowing that naturally-charged pollen readily sucks up alpha emitters as well. If you like fish, then you'll be especially safe knowing that polonium - like every other heavy metal - is bioamplified all the way up the food chain to your fish (except it's about ten-thousand times more toxic than mercury).
"...It also has a very short half life, so you'll have to eat it pretty quickly..."
WTF? Do you have access to the interwebs?? It's 138 days for Po-210, but you need to go a little further up the decay chain. It doesn't come into existence as Po-210, it's a daughter product of earlier decay. How long does Po-218 take to decay to Po-210? How many alpha decays? Even grandma eats faster than that. The biological half-life is about a month assuming you ingest pure Po-210 and no parent radionuclides - you don't. I'm not willing to speculate on grandma's intestinal transport speed.
"...Also 50 nano-grams will not kill you..."
You don't have internet access, do you?
100 ng will kill you p=1; 50ng is the LD50 = would kill more than half of the people ingesting it. Start out with Po-218 and you only need a fraction of that becuase every Po-218 will eventually decay to Po-210. Now start higher than Po-218 in the decay chain and tell me how much is 'safe'.
"...You wallow in ignorance and bombast; your natural habitat...."
Aww... come on. Reading your posts isn't THAT bad!
"...You know absolutely nothing, and you don't care to learn anything; all you want to do is ventilate and try to find an audience for your ignoant nonsense. Pathetic..."
Do you have a small penis by any chance?
Well said. Polonium is seriously dangerous only if ingested - ie a Litvinyenko cocktail , it required high sensitivity scintillating detectors to find traces of polonium in the london bar he supposedly drank his lethal nuclear cocktail. Persoanlly I would be more than worried though because apparently fukushima was operating with some mox rods and these did or are burning up somewhere , this shit contains 7% plutonium definitely the most toxic substance to life.
Japan Scientists: High radiation levels near West Coast after Fukushima disaster — Almost 30 Bq/m3 of cesium offshore — Secret documents reveal US gov’t previously ordered radiation test results in Pacific be hidden to avoid contamination fears
http://enenews.com/japan-scientists-high-radiation-levels-west-coast-aft...
Did you know that you can buy your very own high quality radiation detector for a modest price if your concern is that extreme. Then you take that detector and do your very own research. The only thing missing is understanding what the device is telling you. In other words, whether or not the radiation being emitted is hazardous to your health.
It does NOT take a scientist to do this. It does not take reliance on the words of a special godlike individual to tell you what you can EASILY determine yourself IF there is sufficient concern. DO YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT CONCERN?
Next thing you will tell me is that you don't live anywhere near the coast which would be really stupid to say because all manner of fishlike products make it inland by truck. Point your device at your seafood, at the restaurant or when you go to the store. PRESTO, no need for any more concern.
I'm really sorry to have to pop your fear bubble, but your Cesium, -offshore- ie. in the water; will just sink to the bottom and stay there; of no further interest to anyone. I'm sure you can find some other nonsense to hyperventilate about. What you should be worried about is your own educational level; but that would require actual work on your part to fix.
You aren't well informed on the subject you're discussing. Metals are quite capable of long range transport, even in the air. Ever hear of Arctic deposition of mercury? Didn't think so.
Whether a substance is a metal or not has almost nothing to do with its transport, pathways, or fate in various media.
Here, learn something....just a quick search on 'dissolved heavy metals' yields a small beginning:
http://www.water.ncsu.edu/watershedss/info/hmetals.html
When the Macondo well in the GoM had the blowout, Geo Wash was warning about a fracture in the US continent running to Columbus, Ohio. The oil picked up by storms was supposed to fall a flesh eating pollution all over the mid-continent causing mass human die off.
Where does this nonsense originate?
Says something about the level of systemic rot when the government doesn't want you to worry about the real threat of radiation but instead wants you to worry about the fake threat of terrorism...