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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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Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:30 | 6184842 1033eruth
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No, the whole purpose of Uncle Fraud spreading fear is to cause a hue and cry and a petition for Uncle Fraud to fix the problem.  War on Communism, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, No Child Left Behind, and now, what will be the most expensive fear of all, War on Terror.  

Do you know who is funding all of these scientists that claim we're going to be bombarded with Fukushima radiation?  

Critical thinking, its not for everyone. 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:47 | 6186306 Charming Anarchist
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The same people who make a killing selling the stuff. 

<<Do you know who is funding all of these scientists that claim we're going to be bombarded with Fukushima radiation?>>

As long as the sheeple fear radiation, the "scientists" and their financial backers get to control supply chains.  The unnecessary regulations and handling costs keep the price of radioactive materials expensive. 

 

The Nuclear Scare Scam -- Galen Winsor 

 

Imagine if the sheeple knew they could get off the grid and use free energy from their pet rock.  Imagine how many "scientist" jobs would be lost! 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:40 | 6184083 Divine Wind
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Hey George,

Sorry to say but you have used this particular Boogie Man waaaaay too many times.

Were we not all supposed to be dead already, or at least have open, weeping sores?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:09 | 6184621 One of these is...
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DW, no what is actually going to happen is that the cancer rate will just increase gradually.

Abruptly in some areas, but the wordwide gradual increment will take many years to be noticeable.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:21 | 6184643 conscious being
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"...the wordwide gradual increment will take many years to be noticeable." Especially hard to notice if people stop noticing.

http://blog-epi.grants.cancer.gov/2012/05/24/could-the-recent-change-in-...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:59 | 6184189 xavi1951
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Right! ZerOhead seems to have forgotten that GW has been ringing this bell since Fuk disaster happened. Radiation leaking or pouring into the ocean is not a good thing. But, crying wolf is not good either. I remember all the claims of doom.

I suppose if you make the claim the sky will fall, long enough, it will eventually fall.

What would it be like to a GW blog where solutions accompany the problems?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:43 | 6184540 Model T
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T here's no problem, so the solutions will be a little hard to invent. George is here for the controversy and the page clicks; remember journalism is a business. You have to have something to hyper-ventilate about; even though it's nonsense to the educated minorty. Somebody buys another copy of the Daily Enquirer every other week, with a cover article about the two headed baby on it; but it doesn't have to be you. George is not an authority on anything; he is however as ignorant as the average American CItizen, which is a big help if you're a Blog Expert.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:01 | 6185293 mkkby
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Gave you a +1, but I see lots of science illiterates down voted you.

Yes, in the few weeks after the explosions radiation got into the upper atmosphere and moved around the globe.  However, by the time it got to the US it was so diluted that it was harmlessly small.

Same for the radioactive water.  There is so much fucking ocean water by the time it's a few kilometers from japan it is harmless.  The tuna that were tested had elevated levels, but elevated from a trivial level to still trivial.

Now for some common sense.  Most of you can close your eyes.  If the people in japan a few miles away from ground zero aren't all zombies by now, why should people thousands of miles away be concerned for their own health? 

I live on the west coast and I assure you nobody is getting sick in any way.  The idiot doom sayers said everyone in the northern hemisphere would be dead by now.  Where are their predictions now?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:26 | 6185844 McCormick No. 9
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"I live on the west coast and I assure you nobody is getting sick in any way. "

..aren't sea lions people too?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:48 | 6185495 Paveway IV
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"...There is so much fucking ocean water by the time it's a few kilometers from japan it is harmless..."

You might want to talk to the guys on the USS Reagan about the harmless water a few km away. It took them weeks to decontaminate their ship's water system and they were fifty miles out, I think. And the levels in the water today in the Pacific ocean off of Fukushima are not the biggest concern - few of us are going to swim there or drink seawater. The danger has ALWAYS been bioaccumulation in plankton and other little beasties. Because that's what filter-feeders like krill eat. And they're what little fish eat and those little fish are what bigger fish like tuna eat. Every step in the food chain the radionuclides end up at higher and higher concentrations, just like how heavy metals bioaccumulate up the food chain. That's not paranoia - that's sixth-grade biology.

"...The tuna that were tested had elevated levels, but elevated from a trivial level to still trivial..."

Let's see now. They tested for cesium because it's easy to detect the gamma and they love to test for I-131 because they never find any - it decays too quick.

Gamma emitters are dangerous when ingested, but alpha particles are an order of magnitude or two more biologically destructive and much more important to test for. They bio-accumulate faster than cesium so there should be more of them RELATIVE to cesium, so 'trivial amounts of cesium' is interesting but useless for measuring the total actual radioactive contamination that may pose a risk to our health.

There's also a hell of a lot more types of alpha- and beta-emitting radionuclides from Fukushima than gamma emitting ones. At the very least, then can test for total alpha and total beta to get a ballpark idea of the risk.

Guess how much and what kind of alpha and beta emitters they found in that tuna? NONE. They didn't even test for them - they didn't have the equipment.

Now say I got a 55 gallon drum of fresh, clean water. Then I took a tiny eyedropper an put a fraction of a drop of some toxin - say arsenic - in that water. Something in the single-digit parts-per-billion range - way under the EPA limit for drinking water. I would drink that water if I had to - a few ppb isn't going to kill me. Now say I did the same thing with the hundred or so other contaminants on the EPA limits page, but kept each one of those safely below the EPA limit. Would you drink it now if you had to? Would you drink it for six months? 

So the tuna testers get what amounts to the water spiked with hundreds of contaminants and tells you: "The arsenic levels are below EPA limits - it's safe to drink!" Now the first thing a rational person would ask is: "What about the levels of all the other crap in there?" To which the tuna testers have essentially replied: "Well, the arsenic levels are safe so drink it. We didn't test for anything else, so there's NO PROOF it's UNSAFE to drink. Therefore, you're worrying needlessly and being paranoid. Drink the damn water."

"...The idiot doom sayers said everyone in the northern hemisphere would be dead by now.  Where are their predictions now?..."

Actually, the idiot doomsayers were warning about the cumulative effects of years of chronic, low-level exposure and bioaccumulation. I don't think any idiot doomsayers were warning about people running around screaming while their faces melted off. Nobody was remotely expecting any acute radiation exposure outbreak in the U.S. Even the sailors on the Reagan that got baked didn't start showing symptoms for months after getting exposed. 

The bio-accumulation in our food chain is only starting to peak now, meaning humans will not have our maximum, steady-state body burden for a few years yet. Once you're at that point and the effects are seen across the population, it's too late to cry about it. You can't undo the contamination in the food chain unless you kill everything and start over. You can stop eating for the rest of your life and maybe eliminate some of the contamination in your own body, but it's not that simple. In some cases (plutonium comes to mind) you will never eliminate it from your body in your entire lifetime. Some of the genetic damage will affect your health, but some damage doesn't manifest itself for a generation or two. People with maximum body burdens in a couple of years may not see effects in themselves, but may see the results of genetic damage they passed on to their children or grandchildren. 

Some people have smoked for years and still insist the dangers are overblown by idiot doomsayers, but still don't let their kids smoke. Those God damn hypocrites!

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:44 | 6186057 1033eruth
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Essentially you are saying that the damage is yet to come from Fukushima.  Especially since the damn thing won't stop leaking into the environment.  

Until the world passed various treaties about above ground nuclear tests, Russia, the US and a small number of other countries were having a bombfest globally.  Then they moved all the testing underground.  

Were your theory about bioaccumulation to have any merit, then we should have seen major dieoffs already from a multitude of genetic mutations and of course it would be impossible to pinpoint whether it was from nuclear radiation or some other poison that was spewed.  Vietnam vets acquired a variety of health problems that didn't manifest themselves until 20 - 40 years later.  

The amount of ABOVE ground nuclear testing was phenomenal and done on a very regular basis.  That being the case, where are all the historical references to the killoff of humanity and the rest of the ecosystem?   The answer would be - oh, they are mysteriously missing.  

One thing I learned on this thread is that there is a HUGE chemtrail community that visits this site. 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 12:50 | 6186756 Paveway IV
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"...That being the case, where are all the historical references to the killoff of humanity and the rest of the ecosystem?..."

One out of every 50 kids born in the U.S. has some degree of autism spectral disorder today. Does that seem even remotely normal to you? The genetic anomalies can be traced back to the 50's in grandparents of a lot of these kids. Grandparents who had no prior family history of autism.

You're looking for some dramatic and acute effect of low-dose radiation when none exists. I'm on your side: there were no acute effects of atomic testing or Fukushima radiation across the globe in all but the most radio-sensitive people. Likewise, it's hard to prove a single, distinct cause for the adverse effects of something that takes decades and/or generations to manifest.

When the time comes when one out of every twenty kids born in the U.S. has some degree of autism, there will STILL be plenty of people crowing about how nobody can prove if it's pollution or radioactivity or vaccinations or just from watching CNN. The rates are increasing, and - no - it's not because of increased detection. SOMETHING is causing the increase. Rare forms of cancer are increasing. Brain cancer was almost unheard of fifty years ago. How may times do you hear about someone getting it now? 

I can't prove anything, but even a skeptic can look at stuff like pollution and radiation and identify them as pretty damn likely suspects. Your historical references won't even be written for another twenty years. If that's the bar you have set up for 'proof', then remind your grandchildren if you have any. Write them a nice long letter about not being all paranoid and prudently waiting for scientific proof and government approval of 'facts'.

It will be important for them so they can have a shred of satisfaction as they piss on your grave... while they're watching their autistic children die a slow, painful death from 'rare' cancers. Hey - fuck them - it's not your fault. How could you have known? 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:06 | 6185469 TheMerryPrankster
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early days, cancer takes years to develop, when it is caused by damaged dna replicating, think of it as rounding errors, that accumulate until the sum of the whole is more error than not.

most people don't even know how much cancer has been caused by the weapons testing of the 1950's

I lived downstream from a munitions plant that polluted the aquifier, my mom, my dad and my sister all died of cancer. we had a well for our drinking water. It took 35 years to kill my sister.

carciongenic pollutants are slow but deadly.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:35 | 6184512 Hail Spode
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If it is leaking into the ocean via aquifers, we may not see the worst of it for decades. It takes a long time for water to move through what looks like to us as solid rock.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:47 | 6184552 Model T
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This is so crazy it's hard to imagine who typed it, or why ? The ocean is not connected to your aquifer.  Is it leaking from the Ocean, where it is not in soluton, but resting quietly on the bottom, to your acquifer ? Or did it get into your acquifer, (by magic), and is now leaking towards the Ocean ? Just wondering how crazy you actually are.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:49 | 6185436 Paveway IV
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"...This is so crazy it's hard to imagine who typed it, or why ?..."

Hail Spode typed it about the contaminated water flowing out from under Fuku Daiichi. Try to move your lips next time you read someone's post for an imaginative boost.

"...The ocean is not connected to your aquifer..."

You didn't move your lips, did you? Hail Spode is not talking about THEIR aquifer, they're talking about the Abukima Aquifer that flows from the Abukima Mountains to the ocean. Japan is mountainous - all the aquifiers there flow into the sea.

The Abukima Aquifer flows about a half-meter a year under the Abukuma Plateau, but flows much faster under Daiichi - it was built over the mouth of an ancient river and flows in the valleys cut between several hard-rock hills - all buried twenty or thirty meters under other sandrock or clay-sand sediment. In spots, the aquifer flows tens of meters a month. In other spots under the plant, it may only flow a half-meter a year. The flow is generally north-west to south-east under the plant, emptying to submarine springs a few hundred meters offshore and further south-east of the plant.

"...Or did it get into your acquifer, (by magic), and is now leaking towards the Ocean ? Just wondering how crazy you actually are..."

I'm guessing that at this point, nobody is wondering what an asshole you actually are. But it's an honest mistake - you obviously didn't understand Hail Spode's question. Asshole.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 10:23 | 6186203 bluez
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OK now here's my solution. You know those monster nuclear tunnel-boring machines the conspiracy analysts used to talk about before we found out they are real? Just use those to dig a two-mile deep trench just up-hill from Fuku. Them build a monster bulldozer to simply push all of Fuku down into the trench, well below the water seeps. Problem solved, maybe?

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 07:42 | 6185753 messymerry
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This is one of my pet peeves George.  20 years ago, I was heavily involved in the reliability of the electric grid.  ERCOT.COM  I was arguing that amorphous distribution systems are the wave of the future, but the hyper risk averse utility engineers turned a deaf ear.  With the deregulation of the industry, all the money mavens want is that glowing quarterly report to the rentier class.  As a result of this and the fierce determination by the utility workers to retain their cushy jobs with the antiquated and obsolete transmission system, we are royally screwed.  All this bullshit infrastructure investment in "utility grade" renewables will become trash when distribution level renewables become established.  The Utility PTB are fighting this tooth and nail to keep their filthy jobs.  These pitiful creatures can only see about five minutes into the future...

Start accumulating the equipment you need to go off the grid. 

Good luck and dog help us,,,

;-D

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:26 | 6184251 ZerOhead
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There is no solution to whatever is killing the West Coast sealife. It's probably due to the unusual mass of warm water (AKA "The Blob") situated off the coast that is replacing the normal nutrient rich cold water and therefore a natural event.

No solution for Fukushima as well I'm afraid. Still I'm going to be taking a pass on Pacific tuna and shark fin soup.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:41 | 6184627 conscious being
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The Jet Stream geoengineered diversion is the likely cause of "the blob". Pathway surmised that the diversion may be to reduce Fukashima fallout comjng downin the rain. Hence no rain.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:59 | 6185110 Paveway IV
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Paveway is obviously a limited hangout for the NRC. Don't listen to what that fucker says... 

My dog doesn't even listen to me.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 02:05 | 6185468 conscious being
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I don't believe you ...about the dog. My dog listens to me.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 08:21 | 6185835 McCormick No. 9
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The "Pacific Problem" is a syndrome, and like most syndromes, fucking around with different aspects of it makes it worse.

Some possible dynamics in the syndrome:

1. Base factor: Climate change. Things are heating up. Not by humans, but from outer space. Now we have runaway arctic methane releases to worry about. This has a life of its own now.

2. Base factor: Fukushima: How does radiation affect the weather and ocean currents? The right answer is, "We don't know."

3: Base factor: Rain forest depletion. Fun fact- weather patterns in the eastern pacific are driven quite a bit by the West African Propigation Wave. What contribution does the Amazon have? No-body knows.

4: Contributing factor: Haarp. Killing hurricanes and fucking around with the jetstream is going to have unintended consequenses. Like, DUH.

5: Contributing factor: Chemtrails, see above

 

 

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 09:46 | 6186060 Cruel Aid
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cause and effect is usually to difficult to calculate. That is why trying to get ahead of things can be worse than the initial problem.

ex: drug complications

control freaks cant help themselves though and some are very powerful and devious.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:12 | 6184125 ZerOhead
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Go visit Fukushima with your wife and kids then Mr. Kamikaze. Hopefully it's just a short drive from wherever you are.

And don't forget to enjoy some nice sushi while you're there. It's unlikely that you'll die from it anyway. Think of it like buying a couple thousand or so beta and gamma emitting cancer causing lottery tickets with every bite. Chances are pretty good you and the kiddies will be OK  but multiply that up by the hundreds of millions eating the same thing and it's a safe bet a fair number are going to die

Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.17 years.[1] About 95 percent decays by beta emission to a metastable nuclear isomer of barium: barium-137m (137mBa, Ba-137m).  Ba-137m has a half-life of about 153 seconds.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:40 | 6184620 conscious being
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ZeroHead. FYI - Fukashima is a long way from Tel Aviv, so DW probably won't be making the trip. The avitar and handle are one of those affinity fraud things.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 19:50 | 6184571 Model T
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Take your Geiger Counter with you to the restaurant; it's small, light -weight, easy to use. Every Beta emission will be recorded. After you find out you were full of shit; maybe you'll be a little slower with sharing your ignorance with the rest of the public.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:31 | 6185052 malek
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Maybe you should get yourself a little more informed before posting bullshit.

Even the most sensitive Geiger Counter will not show a significant increase over background radiation on even the most radioactive fish, only longer term measurements will give you an indication.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:05 | 6184610 Manthong
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Can you get a good tan by swimming in Cesium-137?

If so, John Boehner might want to take a few dips.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 20:47 | 6184701 THE 4th Quadrant
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I hope that fat ass whore Oprah and her disgusting whore friend Gail spend many long weekends at the house in Hawaii with their little buddy Barack.

Heil Obama! Sieg Heil!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:12 | 6184783 Creepy A. Cracker
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Cool!!!  Getting out the hot dogs to have them irradiated before munching them down.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 22:38 | 6185074 Manthong
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I still want the potassium iodide concession at the 2020 Olympic Games.

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