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Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown
Submitted by Sean Adl-Tabatabai via InvestmentWatchBlog.com,
Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans.
Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reactors have sprayed immeasurable amounts of radioactive material into the air, most of which settled into the Pacific Ocean. A study by the American Geophysical Union has found that radiation levels from Alaska to California have increased and continue to increase since they were last taken.
Naturalnews.com reports:
The highest levels yet of radiation from the disaster were found in a sample taken 2,500 kilometers (approx. 1,550 miles) west of San Francisco.
“Safe” according to whom?
Lead researcher Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was one of the first people to begin monitoring Fukushima radiation in the Pacific Ocean, with his first samples taken three months after the disaster started. In 2014, he launched a citizen monitoring effort – Our Radioactive Ocean – to help collect more data on ocean-borne radioactivity.
The researchers track Fukushima radiation by focusing on the isotope Cesium-134, which has a half-life of only two years. All Cesium-134 in the ocean likely comes from the Fukushima disaster. In contrast, Cesium-137 – also released in huge quantities from Fukushima – has a half-life of 30 years, and persists in the ocean, not just from Fukushima, but also from nuclear tests conducted as far back as the 1950s.
The most recent study added 110 new Cesium-134 samples to the ongoing studies. These samples were an average of 11 Becquerels per cubic meter of sea water, a level 50 percent higher than other samples taken so far.
Instead of presenting the findings as an alarming sign of growing radiation, however, Buesseler emphasizes that the Cesium-134 levels detected are still 500 times lower than the drinking water limits set by the U.S. government. The news site The Big Wobble questions whether Buesseler and Woods Hole’s heavy financial reliance on the U.S. government – Woods Hole has received nearly $8 million in research funding from several government agencies – plays any role in this emphasis.
Situation still worsening
The reality, however, is that radiation along the West Coast is expected to keep getting worse. According to a 2013 study by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, the oceanic radiation plume released by Fukushima is likely to hit the North American West Coast in force in 2017, with levels peaking in 2018. Most of the radioactive material from the disaster is likely to stay concentrated on the western coast through at least 2026.
According to professor Michio Aoyama of Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, the amount of radiation from Fukushima that has now reached North America is probably nearly as much as was spread over Japan during the initial disaster.
The recent Woods Hole study also confirmed that radioactive material is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima plant. Cesium-134 levels off the Japanese coast are between 10 and 100 times higher than those detected off the coast of California.
Without directly challenging the U.S. government’s “safe” radiation limits, Buesseler obliquely references the fact that any radioactive contamination of the ocean is cause for concern.
“Despite the fact that the levels of contamination off our shores remain well below government-established safety limits for human health or to marine life,” he said, “the changing values underscore the need to more closely monitor contamination levels across the Pacific.”
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Don't worry though Olympians, everything will be fine in a few billion or so years.
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In similar manner to the famous Glyphosate lobbyist, the good professsor should be offered a nice cocktail of desalinated fresh Pacific water to drink on camera. My guess is, like the lobbyist, he might not be so keen....despite both being "Perfectly safe and well within Government limits".
Hand a glass of tap water to someone (educated for best results) and ask them: what is a safe level of plutonium in drinking water?
Then tell them thats what they are drinking. A safe level.
Do not worry.
Piss in a bottle and then offer someone a glass of clean water.
Ask how much piss they would be comfortable having added.
We both know the answer.
just enough to taste it?
:)
Several Japanese talking heads did that, not too long after the explosions.
They all died of horrible cancers fairly quickly thereafter.
Link???
Sounds nice, but I hate BS internet rumors.
(Is it live, or is it Memorex)???
As alluded to above, it's the bio-accumulation that is the major health threat.
Just don't eat anything from the Pacific Ocean for the next 10,000 years.
Saw fish restaurant packed laughing eating, drinking even Chinese.
they don't even know...
they haven't included the seasonal adjustments yet.
They did but they didn't apply the DOUBLE seasonal adjustments. Yet...
fk the japs, when do they pay me compensation?
USA 2
Nippon 1
Plume-Gate documents the cover-up via FOIA releases: https://hatrickpenry.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/something-wicked-this-w...
HatrickPenry had a great youtube channel, he hasn't posted anything in 4 months, hope he's okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdrlXWdITw
whats the water like around Hawaii and isn't a certain official swimming in it for the next 16 days?
Shhhhhhhhh......
Don't worry global warming is a bigger threat, ahhhhh has anyone considered the super El Nino in the Pacific is actually the the remains of the Japanese reactors bubbling to the surface.
WookieZilla! The shockwave from it's massive thighs clapping together can kill for miles.
"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man......GODZILLA!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJoy_0dJEjY
Let one thing be clear: Oceanographers are not health scientists or even biologists. Ken B. is NOT qualified to comment on the effects of the radiation. Anyway it's not the ambient levels that cause most bad effects. It's the concentration pathways. Absolutely nothing is being done on that front.
Can you elaborate, Jim?
Thanks.
i second tinky's request jim. always appreciate your expertise. thank you.
It was actually over a year ago that the ocean monitoring program, via ships making runs into the Pacific measuring cesium levels, started picking up samples that confirmed what earlier modeling had predicted: background levels (resulting from above ground nuclear testing) were being exceeded, as in double or triple. Now this kind of reading is pretty routine in the Pacific close to the US coast. The earlier modeling assumed that the 'source term' for the initial radiation release was one-time and within the Japanese official estimates. Of course it was neither. It is ongoing and much larger. The initial modeling suggested that near-US ocean levels would stabilize at 2-3 times background at about the 5 year mark from the accident. However, this is not plausible with bigger open-ended releases.
So that's the ambient story. No one has a good estimate as to whether the eastern Pacific will end up at 5, 10 or some other level vs. background. You can bone up on the linear dose-response theory of radiation exposure, it is pretty politicized by now so good luck sorting through your sources. Suffice it to say, several high-profile health bodies continue to maintain that there is no safe incremental dose of radiation.
Concentration pathways have two basic types: physical concentration through processes like currents, debris, and topography, and bioaccumulation via the food chain. Looking for 'hotspots' should be ramped up in Japan like 100-fold, with independent international and 'crowdsourced' methods invited in. Instead it remains a virtual official no-go zone. In the Pacific, the sad part is that there is no natural limit to cesium bioaccumulation in tuna, and the main migration route is now contaminated for its entire length whether 'just a bit' or quite a lot. Since they are the top predator, they just eat the already bioaccumulated levels in smaller fish which have also been feeding in this contamination. News reports from last year mentioned tuna at 'safe' levels of contamination, but those levels were like one-third of the way to officially 'not safe'....again, ignorance is bliss, but not throwing everything we have into monitoring this situation just makes you wonder about what the real priorities are. There's plenty of boats, just need some basic probes and telemetry to throw up a reasonably constant, real time monitoring web.
But, who gives a shit I guess is the answer. kind of like the last note ZH contributor George Washington put up here in which recently released US government documents stated that all the nuclear material had been released from the Fukushima units, but their initial analysis suggested that fallout levels (! just atmospheric not water-borne) would be below alert levels "except for Alaska." Think about that for a second. No need to worry anyone or anything. It's just Alaska after all.
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To put some perspective on this radioactive seawater for the sake of functionally innumerate ZH, let's compare that 11 Bq of Fukushima Cesium to the background always present in seawater.
A cubic meter of seawater (or just over a metric ton) has about 399 grams of natural potassium in it. It's a component of natural salt.
One of the natural isotopes of potassium is radioactive. It has a half-life of about 1.248×109 years, and has been present in natural potassium since the supernova that blew up to produce the elements of the solar system. That would mean that it decays at a rate of 10,598,826 Bq per equivalent.
Gleaning a few more facts from Wikipedia, we find that we would have 10.2 equivalents of potassium in that cubic meter, of which 0.012% is radioactive K40, and multiplying it all out, we get 10598826×10.2×0.00012 = 12973 Bequerels of natural radioactivity.
Compare that to 11 Bq from Fukushima, and draw your own conclusions...
Fuku is still spewing, so the numbers may change, but so far I'm not terribly worried about California. Near Japan, it's probably much much higher than 11 Bq, of course.
The potassium perspective is unfortunately not helpful, and usually actively misleading. I assume from your 'functionally innumerate' bullshit that you at least pretend or have fooled yourself into thinking that you understand this material, so for attempting to continue this particular deception: fuck you. ZH readers are about the sharpest around, They are just normally in very bad moods because of liars like yourself.
Or, maybe you don't understand how different substances, isotopes and compounds work in the body, and are just functionally innumerate. You can't absorb any more potassium into your body even if you try.
Well, junk you too. Actually I have liked some of the things you've said about Fuku over the last several years.
But, show me the calculation that proves this is wrong.
K40 is not a benign isotope. When it decays, it is capable of emitting positrons. It is not harmless, it is probably one of the biggest causes of cancer. But it has always been there. Furthermore, the same bio-accumulation pathway is followed by potassium and cesium. The non-radioactive isotope of cesium is essentially interchangeable with potassium in biology, at least up to a few percent.
What's noteworthiy here, and what is being suppressed by the evil nuclear-government bureaucracy, is that they have managed to pollute the whole fucking Pacific Ocean, to a measurable degree. And that this radwaste pollution is several times worse than the nuclear-testing pollution that inspired the test-ban treaty.
Furthermore, all that Pacific Ocean pollution was from just one nuke plant. One of the hundreds of plants that are capable of doing exactly the same thing. And even likely to do the same thing, as time goes by.
OK. Potassium including K40 exists in homeostasis and is excreted as fast as it comes on board: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/266897
Cesium can bioaccumulate without apparent limit:http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/222/m222p227.pdf
“The measured influx rate of Cs into the fish bodies was directly proportional to the ambient Cs concentration. No saturation of uptake was reached within the experimental Cs concentrations tested. Thus, radiocesium may not be actively transported through the K+ channel due to the high K+ concentration in seawater (mM levels).”
Cesium contamination in Japanese freshwater fish: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638159/
Cesium contamination in Japanese terrestrial (forest) ecosystems: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep03599
It doesn't matter how we feel about it or how inconvenient it is, these substances are very very different.
Nice paper. K/Cs are actively accumulated when K is scarce, and actively excreted when it is abundant. As for Cs, from the paper:
It would be interesting to see a similar study for radio-K, but there aren't the useful isotopes for such labeling. As for that earlier paragraph, in which uptake saturation was not observed, they were only observing for four days. It does have a half-life. And, as one would expect, the uptake is more active in freshwater fish where K is scarce.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that indigenous freshwater fish are now extinct in some parts of Japan. I saw a notice (in 2012 I think) that a certain common dog whelk (predatory marine snail) can no longer be found on Japan's east coast. This was due to Sr90, which is quite actively bioaccumulated by shellfish. It's also worth noting that Sr90 was the isotope measured in the baby tooth study which led to the test-ban treaty in 1963.
ZH readers are about the sharpest around, really?? Let's see, False-flaggers, conspiracy nuts, pseudo-comics, Jew haters, kill all the bankers, hate the rich, global warming zealots, GW worshipers, Putin worshipers, anti-anything U.S., name callers and on and on. Scatter in that mix a few really smart people that don't jump at everything they read. Everyone likes to think that they are informed but not all information is true so don't be so quick to fuck you someone that is trying to add info because it does not fit into your box. A simple down vote would have done just fine.
The polite website is over there.....see if the community is any sharper and let us know.
It takes a long time to find out just how serious and thoughtful ZH posters are. You'll need thick skin and a bucket.
Noam Comski would be proud of you. When you can't think of anything intelligent to say, call people names, swear at them or berate them. It is not a matter of politeness, it is a matter of intellect. Smart people don't have to resort to such immature behavior.
See, I'm nice to you for one second and you just parrot-barf up the rehashed 'ad hominum attacks invalidate anything else you might have said' college (or maybe prep school?) debate agitprop.
Give it a rest. ZH runs on turbo-charged insults or did you fail to notice the entire design theme of the site?
This is, by the way, a top ten global financial blog site according to, uh, lessee, oh yeah The Wall Street Journal. If you think stupid people are watching you make an insipid, non-contributing idiot of yourself, please by all means persist in your delusion.
Maybe you can get a job with your evident 'interwebz debate club' skillz at the RNCC or some other turd patrol in DC. At least they pay you in free beer and pizza for your key-poking.
There, was that mature enough?
Natural isotopes don't emanate from Fukushima.
Natural isotopes don't emanate from Fukushima.
Precisely. Pity the Gray Whales cruising the Pacific Coast eating Krill.
Very little krill left. The whales are beaching themselves, dying of starvation and cancerous tumors:
www.enenews.com
No one is doing any studies to determine the destruction of the phytoplankton - reponsible for 60+% of our new oxygen. Not that we need it...
Death by slow suffocation is actually quite pleasant.
You die laughing.
Here are the symptoms of Hypoxia for which you can amuse yourselves..
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_(medical)
In the case of altitude sickness, where hypoxia develops gradually, the symptoms include light-headedness / fatigue, numbness / tingling of extremities, nausea and anoxia.[5][6] In severe hypoxia, or hypoxia of very rapid onset, ataxia, confusion / disorientation / hallucinations / behavioral change, severe headaches / reduced level of consciousness,papilloedema, breathlessness,[7] pallor,[8] tachycardia and pulmonary hypertension eventually leading to the late signs cyanosis, slow heart rate / cor pulmonale and low blood pressure followed by death.[9][10]
There are much worse ways to go...like strangulation or drowning or burning to death..
Here is a map you can laugh at...oceanic Dead Zones. They are just growing exponentially. Oh well...an Extinction Level Event. LMAO.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Aquatic_Dead_Zones.jpg
Yes. Oopsies. We bad. We fucked up.
Parteez on. There is not much time left.
The whales should eat the tumors.
Tumors: It's what's for dinner.
Tumors: The new white meat.
Tumors: Gluten free.
You STATE that Ken B. is not qualified.
You then ramble on about ambient levels and concentration pathways.
Are you qulified to comment on any of the above?
As I said in another comment - There is NO safe dose of radiation.
Therefore anything that adds to dosage is detrimental
Not a hard concept to grasp.
My qualifications are none of your business. This is just a website. I don't say anything I can't back up with research and citations, though.
I didn't say there was a safe incremental dose. That's the kind of thing Buesseler often does say, or imply.
I have no idea what raising the near-US Pacific cesium levels by several hundred percent will do. I wish we didn't have to think about it.
Pretty sure we actually agree on this, but piss off anyway just for your attitude.
if you tried that shit in front of me, you'd be visiting a maxillo-facial surgeon. preachy hypocrite!!
Buzz buzz said the gnat. There's years of analysis on this topic at this site. Maybe learn something?
As I said, say something intelligent, not immature.
Didn't you use Bob Nichols as a scource? He is a loon. Everyones qualifications are all our business. If you are a dishwasher, your comments and claims on a subject like this, would carry a little less weight than if you were a nuclear physicist. People that have no valid arguement resort to name calling and deriding others like I notice you do a lot.
One thing I can assure you of: nuclear physicists know nothing about health. They are the least credible source on such things, and the most disinformational. Not to mention obnoxious.
Who's Bob Nichols? Most of my actual sources are peer-reviewed journal articles or nice old U.S. government lab reports. You know, the ones in typewriter.
Can't beat a carefully put together rebuttal.
Yours wasn't one, though.
Back it up, please.
He lost all credibility as soon as he damned the source.
I'd say the Californicater's deserve it, but not the Salmon and the Bear.
no worries, Jerry Brown is on the job.
Shhhhh... Don't tell them or they'll move eastward in greater numbers.
It's worse back East. See the VT link above.
FuckusGEma is going to be the death of us all.
I read the other day that one reactor had a 100% melt down and is headed for ground water.
When it hits water thats all folks! It will become a nuclear Ole Faithful except it will make ours look like a squirt out of an ants dick.
Enjoy life while you can, before you start glowing in the dark.
Heres a vid about it > https://youtu.be/CiihRRHfcPI
Please dont blame GE, not that I'm defending them, but really. instead blame the design of the site lay-out, the idiotic location of the back-up gens. and even more idiotic location of the spent fuel pools.
This folks, is called craming 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag low-bid/design construction, which would be working just as fine today if not for the problems associated with an active fault-line nuke plant..
The outrage should lay, not with GE or even the weak assed construction planning, but with the fucking ongoing cover-up of this planet changing disaster..
It was GE design to put spent fuel rods in a swimming pool above a reactor.
If you were on a Southwest 767 and the wing fell off at 39,000 ft. who would you blame, Southwest or Boeing?
As far as I know, GE recommended the plant be built higher up, or at least the generators. It was the TEPCO engineers who put them in the basement. THAT was the main problem, aside from the lazy bought off inspections teams.
it was sabotage. the cooling pumps wouldn't have made a difference.
http://americanfreepress.net/japanese-journalist-accuses-israel-of-fukushima-sabotage/
Stuxnet anyone?
because emergency generators in a basement flooded by seawater carried by a tsunami from the T?hoku earthquake never once entered into your thinking?
At the time of the earthquake, reactors 4, 5 and 6 were shut down in preparation for re-fueling.[9] However, their spent fuel pools still required cooling.[10] Immediately after the earthquake, the electricity producing reactors 1, 2 and 3 automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions, inserting control rods in what is termed a SCRAM. Following this legally mandated "safety precaution" which ceases the reactors' normal running conditions, the reactors were unable to generate power to run their own coolant pumps. Emergency diesel generators came online, as designed, to power electronics and coolant systems, all of which operated right up until the tsunami destroyed the generators for reactors 1–5 due to their location in unhardened low-lying areas. The two generators cooling reactor 6 were undamaged and were sufficient to be pressed into service to cool the neighboring reactor 5 along with their own reactor, averting the overheating issues that reactor 4 suffered.
It was a tsumani you morons
Don't you realize these reactors are built right on the coast all over the world?
There is one right on the beach between San Diego and Tiajuana?
This will, already has, killed all the plankton that feeds us all.
"If you were on a Southwest 767 and the wing fell off at 39,000 ft. who would you blame, Southwest or Boeing?
"
Good lawyers would sue everyone.
GE bears the brunt of the liability. Three engineers quit and blew the whistle on what GE was doing, and they wouldn't put their name on it:
'GE Three'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Three
'Japan reactor design caused GE engineer to quit'http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-quake-engineer-idUSTRE72E9H42011...
There are over 20 more GE Mark 1 & 2 NPPs in the US that are far past their expiration date. Same flawed design as the Fukushima plants, in neighborhoods all over the country.
Fukushima March 2011 is/was the Mayan ending.
Astrologers know, but even they don't talk about it anymore.
I am the only one I know of, they have allowed politics to infect their interpretations
of world events.
Uranus was at 29* Aquarius March 2011 and at 29 you get the whole sign.
What is Aquarius? It is humanity.
0* Pisces it was reported that radiation was flooding into the ocean in Japan.
revenge of the fishes, as I call it.
29* Capricorn was in January 1778 and that was when the articles of confederation were ratified, it ended
a big government and birthed a new one.
Well we are back there again January 2024 Pluto will again be at 29* Capricorn, and it directly relates to USA due to its founding at the previous Pluto Capricorn. It will be no more, but what will replace it the task at hand, if we survive.
Some will be immune to radiation I suspect, look for them who lived long near nuclear power plants.
Politicians.
"Government established limits?"
Is that like government established unemployment numbers where 50% of the nations eligible employees out of work only equal 5% unemployment?
Is that like government established targets, hospitals, elementary schools and friendly's?
Is that like government established gun free mass murder zones?
Is that like government established homeless camps?
Welcome to the government established era of the fuck up everything led by the fucked up white house.
If you like your radiation you can have more. We have to melt down a reactor to see what's in it.
Isn't it good to know when you can look west in the Texas evening sky and see the glow of california you'll still be safe because it doesn't exceed the government established limits?
It's good to know they banned all radiation measurements after the fuki meltdown. I feel safer.
I am looking forward to the day when all temperature measurements are considered classified for national security purposes. That way when my outside thermometer reads 32 degrees and the government assures me it's really 120 degrees out I will quickly whip out my checkbook and send them a one time carbon enhancement fee.
the solution to polution is dilution
Try telling that to your liver......
You clearly don't understand how the liver functions.
-parenchymal cells ~ Not only replicate, but also, under normal healthy conditions replicate without leaving scar tissue.
A Liver is a terrible thing to waste. Hiccup.
( Juandice)?
Fortunately I made the right decision... i HATE BLOOD
The solution to pollution is definitely not dilution, if you are high up in the food chain and everything before you bio-accumulates.
well is this Japan's way of payback for Hiroshima and Nagasaki all the while commiting Kamikaze harakiri?
When the world goes bonkers.
This thing has been a clusterfuck from the moment they decided to build those reactors. WHAT!!? earthquakes in Japan??..never happen!
When the next Tsunami hits that site, we are all fucked...extinction level event on the horizon.
Mmmm, Calamari anyone?, don't mind the flabby texture, just consider it a product of inadvertent GMO engineering..funny thing is, they have 13 arms now but, still delicious!
Japan became our manufacturing base, they were our slaves working making toys in the 50s and we bought that junk.
Japan is a vassal of America, hence General Electric builder of that plant.
No mention of the increasingly unstable spent fuel rod pools, the "missing" cores, leaky storage tanks, ground subsidence, failed containment, earthquake danger, official lies, or the incalculable effects this disaster is having on the tiny end of the oceanic foodchain.
Boron nitride! It's semi-metalic, like a silicon carbide drill bit. And like silicon carbide, almost as hard as diamond. And it's very light weight. And it soaks up neutron radiation like a sponge. And virtually nothing can melt it.
If the cheap scum who build nuklear reactors had bothered to put boron nitride "kettles" beneath their shoddy reactor vessels, none of this could possibly have happened.
But no. They needed to save a few bucks.
Boron is used in PWR reactors not BWRs. Fukishima is a BWR.
I'm a Radiation protection tech and from YOUR numbers, its 660 dpm per 264 gallons of water. All I got to day is "SO PHUKING WHAT"....
My dose from working is a trillion times higher...
The phytoplankton is definitely not as hardcore as you..bra
I hope you wear a lead-lined codpiece to work, Bud.
"My dose from working is a trillion times higher..."
The nookular industry is full of idiots like you who only do it cause they make money then reach their limit and live off of benefits the rest of their lives, sort of like .gov employees.
You are aware radiation makes you stupid right?
You the idiot, because you don't know what you fucking talking about.
"You the idiot, because you don't know what you fucking talking about."
I have spoken to a number of ex nookular power employees who know full well how dangerous Fukushima is to the planet.
One of them got a dose of cobalt his last foray into a reactor that partially melted and the public wasn't told. He is on benefits till he croaks and gets a lead lined casket (paid for by .gov, not the industry, just like his benefits).
They just don't give a damn.
Most times they shun me after I bring up Fukushima.
Cause nuke power is all about the money you POS.
PS if you want to take off that FBI badge and meet me in an alley somewhere we can settle this like men. However, I suspect the FBI doesn't have any men in it, just girls, I mean, look at such great jobs you scum filth do against the taxpayers who pay your salaries.
And yet you are still living and breathing... According to some here, you should have died long ago...
Yes, from that that 660 dpm I'm going to die. Even that is not equivalent to dose. Dpm is a matter of dacay. Dose is in Rad,Rem,milirem.
dubious sources.
InvestmentWatchBlog is the same site that ran with this hoax:
BREAKING: US STEALTH BOMBERS DROPPING MILLIONS OF LEAFLETS OVER NORTH KOREA – WARNING OF ATTACK!!http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-us-stealth-bombers-dropping-mill...
and here is the secondary source (ScienceAlert) from which third-tier NaturalNews ripped their copy and spun spun spun:
So how do scientists know if radiation in the water has come specifically from Fukushima? Pretty much all seawater sampled from the Pacific will contain traces of an isotope called cesium-137, which has 30-year half-life and is left over from nuclear weapons testing carried out between the 1950s and '70s.
But Fukushima has its own unique isotope, cesium-134, which is like a 'fingerprint' of the Fukushima meltdown. With only a two-year half-life, it decays a lot quick than cesium-137, but it can still be detected in small amounts throughout the ocean, showing scientists exactly where the reactors radioactive material has spread.
Out of the 110 new contaminated samples detected off the US west coast, the most radioactive was collected around 2,500 km off the coast of San Francisco. It contained 11 Becquerel's per cubic metre of seawater – which is equivalent to 50 percent higher cesium levels than other samples collected in this part of the ocean so far.
Buesseler's research has also shown that Fukushima is still leaking radioactive material into the ocean in Japan, with the levels off the Japanese coast between 10 to 100 times higher than the levels off the US West Coast today.
"Levels today off Japan are thousands of times lower than during the peak releases in 2011," said Buesseler. "That said, finding values that are still elevated off Fukushima confirms that there is continued release from the plant."
The team will continue to monitor these radiation levels throughout the Pacific, with the hopes of better understanding these types of disasters so we can more efficiently mitigate their effects in the future. They'll present their latest results next week at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.
And for anyone still freaking out about radiation levels, let Veritasium put things into perspective for you. Because even the exclusion zones of Chernobyl and Fukushima aren't as radioactive as the inside of a smoker's lungs... seriously.
http://www.sciencealert.com/highest-but-stilll-safe-levels-of-fukushima-...
Radiation in smoker's lungs is from polonium-210. But it has a half-life of only 138.4 days.
"...most of the harms caused by tobacco use are due not to tar, but to the use of radioactive fertilizers. Surprisingly, radiation seems to be the most dangerous and important factor behind tobacco lung damage."
http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_tobacco.html
Specialist I went to said its the heat from smoking that damages your lungs.
He also said re: fukushima is that all it will do is scar your lungs.
I know a sailor who went to the doctor asking about the fact he is
at sea for months at a time and has to drink sea water, no space
for bottled water and must eat their food.
Doctor said "I don't know." and sent him away.
chinese want to smog us, japanese want to radiate us, europeans want to assfuck us and muslims want assfuck goats
well could be worse
You failed to mention Soros.
I have several cases of canned tuna/albacore from 2-4 years age stored , JIC of other natural situations.
I also have a few cases, from rotating stock, canned in Thailand. (skip jack whole chunk tuna) in water, and of course some Barramundi, I bring back [freeze dried] from OZ
We're probably being lied to... LA's Nuclear Secret: Part 1 | NBC Southern California
This is MSM? Go figure
do you know if your tuna was canned by child slave labour?
Good question! Those little bastards are notorious for not washing their hands after they use the restroom. Tasks as important as canning tuna really should be left to the adults......
You are a wise man.
I don't.
I'll look into it, and do some research. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
At the time, I was just looking for another source of safe protein.
I'd be more worried of lead poisoning from that tuna than radiation from Fukushima.
Mercury is the biggie in tuna.
I'd be more worried that it's not tuna at all, but escolar.
sprayed immeasurable amounts of radioactive material into the air
Come again?
Most radioactive material is still in or under the reactors, slowly leaking into the ocean.
Most of it caught fire and burned. Think of a magnesium fire. What was left melted through the bottom.
In contrast to the graphite in Chernobyl, there is almost nothing that can burn in a Fukushima reactor (assuming we're talking the chemical reaction with oxygen.)
"Finely divided uranium metal presents a fire hazard because uranium is pyrophoric; small grains will ignite spontaneously in air at room temperature."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium
Fuel rods will burn when the cooling water level falls. Such as in an earthquake, or explosions.
This one has been buried. Japan Tsunami
- TOKYO BAY JAPAN
The facility belongs to Chisso Petrochemical, and it contained 765 kilograms of depleted uranium at 0.3% concentration. It caught fire when the adjacent Cosmo Oil LPG tank caught fire and exploded. Not a problem, the Chiba government now says, and Chisso hasn't said anything about the facility.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/now-they-tell-us-series-depleted.html
Video of the fire -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIry2jB9WE4
You have to choose one:
Did the uranium get hot enough to evaporate all water (after the containment failed) and
1. burned with the oxygen (with the resulting oxide "flying away"?)
or
2. melted and formed a pool in the bottom of the reactor which reached criticality again.
Which one is it?
So, under TPP, if passed, Alaskan Salmon can sue Japan for salmon industry losses ?
No, Japan can sue USA for not eating Radiated Salmon. GE brings good things to die-off? Who would allow hundreds of spent fuel rods to be stored in the same space forever???? GE that's who.
The media hides the fact that nothing at all has been done. other than spraying water of spent fuel rods and melted cores. We did have spent fuel rods being taken out of one pool, but I have not heard anything more since that process began. The man who engineered the 3 Mile Island clean up back in the 80's says it will take 40 years at least just to invent and engineer possible clean up devices. No guarantee, just a hope that in 4 decades something will be invented. Last robot designed to withstand high radiation was roasted in a short time in an area not inside the real hot zones.
Face it, clean up is a lie, containment is a joke. Water full of radioactive waste flows freely into the ground water and the seas.
I'm keeping track Jack.
All the fuel pools were filled to capacity at Unit 4. Remind me again where they're placing those 1533 fuel rod assemblies??
In the Pacific Ocean.
By a variety of routes -- dissolved in the 'cooling' water, as 'smoke' from the metal fires back in 2011, and in groundwater flows through the now-buried corium, following the fires. Just because it is buried does not mean it has ceased to exist.
It's now government vs it's citizens.
Didn't our forefathers warn about this?
"Didn't our forefathers warn about this?"
Their words haven't been scrubbed from History, yet.
So, watch for increased instances in thyroid cancer in the Pacific Northwest region showing up in 2-3 years. What the result will be for fishing industries will be devastating.
Expecting Uncle Sam to tell you about the safety dangers is not conducive to one's survival; Uncle knew as far back as 1925 that asbestos caused cancer, but kept the information under wraps while millions of industrial workers over the decades developed mesothelioma from inhaling asbestos fibers. Not to mention lying to and forcing draftees to walk through fallout tainted terrain during the 1950's and '60's open-air nuke tests.
Suuuuure, you can trust Uncle Sam to give you the straight-up word. Suuuure you can...
http://enenews.com/times-child-cancers-5000-after-fukushima-disaster
Coming to North America, to a neighborhood near you.
It's all ready in our neighborhood.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/12/10/Researchers-unsure-why-Califor...
In Seattle where I live we all have fukushima hot particles in our lungs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEipg81uLw
usa nuked japan and they decided they pay us all back 70 years later
sneaky japanse they purposely build their plants on the pacific coast and let them melt, making it look like an accident
they dont have children anymore so they know they will die out anyway and decided to do kamikaze and drag us all into death
quite a folk they are
Revenge by sushi... absofuckinglutely diabolical...
Seems to be SOP for Israel to blow up reactors 1 and 3 with nuclear devices thus enabling the meltdowns of 2 and 4 at Fukushima Diachii GE nuclear power plant. As well is no consideration of Fukushima Dianni which also melted down.
No mention of suxtet virus downloaded to create the further loss of power to reactors 2 and 4 and their cooling pools that obvious melted down as well.
http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress3/9-million-bags-of-radiated-fukushim...
Essentially, israel et al have now moved into controlling yakuza covering up the Mossad bombing of this reactor.
https://311truth.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/japan-limiting-israeli-visas-t...
This is mainstream now.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/12/30/yakuza-gangsters-...
Israelis controlling Yakuza? W.T.F.
I was wondering why COD fish was so cheap at the store today...
The second head growing out of my shoulder tells me there is nothing to worry about.
Very soon talking to yourself will take on a whole new meaning.
At least it's on your shoulder; I think I have one growing out of my rear crack.
how unfortunate that yours is a politician
This is why they push "climate change".
Cleaning up man made pollution takes real work.
It gets worse. Wait 6 months, and keep an eye on St. Louis.
Well, at least I'll be able to see the residents of Ferguson in the dark. So there is that added benefit.
No it will be very light outside at night, they will be sitting on porches and running through backyards glowing.
All I can say is that what goes round comes round.
Pissing in the ocean means you will get it back in your salt and the time has come for a reverse Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Nobody talks about how great sushi is anymore.
They are all eating fish like crazy, its amazing.
One lady said to me "uh, what's Fukushima?"
"to me "uh, what's Fukushima?"
"
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/
How can it be Sushi if its cooked? or should I say FRIED..
California glow rolls
or Carifolnia grow lorrs.
Well, now you have sushishima. Self cooking. Yum.
Absurd. The article uses meaningless measurements like Becquerels. The only valid measurements are in REM, RADS and Sieverts.
The only statistics which matter reflect a possible harm to life.
If you are going to state a percentage increase in radiation which has value, you must state what the previous measurement was, what it is now and how it compares to what scientists have determined is harmful to life. This article does none of those things.
It is alarmist propaganda. It is worse than nonsense, because it contains no truth. Nonsense can often be fun.
No it is you that is absurd.
Becquerel is an established scientific measurements of radioactive decay of isotopes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel
You don't get them REMs, RADS or Sieverts without them Becquerels being there in the first place.
"Cesium-134 levels detected are still 500 times lower than the drinking water limits set by the U.S. government"
That should have been the headline for this article.
Drinking water limits:
'State Of Emergency Declared In Michigan City After Lead Found In Children's Blood'“The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” said the city’s mayor Monday evening, as she declared a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city’s tap water. Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout from over a year’s worth of tainted water delivered to Flint residents and, allegedly, falsely declared safe by government officials.
In September, news broke that lead contamination was on the rise in Flint. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of the Hurley Medical Center concluded that since the water supply switched from the Detroit system to Flint River in April 2014, the number of infants and children with elevated levels of lead in their blood had doubled, from 2.1% to 4%. While the rise seems small, it is statistically significant..."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-16/state-emergency-declared-michig...
Would you bet your child's life on .gov telling the truth?
They have been suing for decades, Freddy Gray had a lead suit he settled. So did all his friends.
You are correct re: lead suit, but that was from lead paint in his run-down tenement housing, not the water.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baltimores-toxic-legacy-of-lead-paint/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/freddie-grays-life-a-study-in-the-s...
That would have been a better headline.
I guess the levels of Cesium-134 are increasing because Fukushima continues to pump it out fast enough that accumulation overbalances the falling radioactivity of the cesium.
Articles like this should make reasonable projections and not just claim that radiation is continuing to increase. Failure to do so is likely to create unwarranted alarm among ordinary folk who know more about mackerels than becquerels.
Even if you know what a becquerel is, a quantity of becquerels is meaningless if you don't know the composition of the radioactive material and its concentration in the water.
The government level of shit for brains has been increased for Troll bot roddy6667 on account of psyops activity on Zero Hedge. Other Zero Hedge posters do not have any detectable shit for brains.
How do they work that?
There are so fewer people, but just check out the profit line!
Oh yes, the printer!
There are no safe safe radiation limits. Everything above natural increases the health risk.
Define " Natural" Bunga?
Albiet, I agree with you.
I before E except after C?