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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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Not in the case of "albeit", however.
my bad
ambidextrous...
KTM 250 EXC 2016
You must have big ass feet to get that in your stocking.
lol
Radiation good......Global warming bad........Government good.......Private sector bad......Government treated sewage in river good.....Farmers field runoff bad........Yada Yada Yada.......
The global warmling/climate changeling crowd doesn’t realize that nuclear isotopes heat the atmosphere when released. Just imagine a giant microwave you can open the door on. Remember Al Gore's hockey stick graph of higher CO2 and higher temperatures? Well the graph on temperature correlates well to radiation releases by bombs, bomb tests, nuclear plants undergoing maintenance, nuclear accidents and nuclear dumps.If the climate changelings knew anything they would be burning fossil fuels as fast as possible to combat the cooling of the earth. Scotland, Sweden had no summer last year and snow didn't melt. The Russians have warned of an ice age in 15ys. I believe Martin Armstrong covered a similar forecast and us planning to move to Florida to have a chance of surviving (need to be between Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.
Just buy a houseboat and you're covered either way.
Highest radiation in the country was Billings MT for quite a few months.
San Fran where I am is half of that, must be the jet stream sort of swirls here.
Colorado Springs ot good, Spokane Washigton not good.
see radiation levels for this week here
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/19/your-radiation-this-week-no-35/
Journalist: “Nobody even talks about Fukushima anymore… there’s almost no more fish… the ocean is dying, it’s terrifying” — Gov’t warns public to expect alarming increase in deaths on West Coast — “Fish… are just too hard to find” — “Chaos below the surface” — Official: “We are preparing for worst”
Former Official: Fukushima is “unstoppable”… Huge amounts of radiation are pouring out, “very serious” for Pacific Ocean — Journalists withholding shocking information — Plant Chief: “This is something that has never been experienced”… We must invent new science for unprecedented catastrophe (AUDIO) Published: December 17th, 2015 at 2:19 pm EThttp://enenews.com/journalist-talks-about-fukushima-anymore-almost-fish-...
karma for Hiroshima?
Right after Fukushima a young Japanese guy said "We have to keep going with nuclear power if we want to keep our lifestyle"
Well it was all about consumers, it was never enough plus they were making CRAP that didn't last.
Fuckin corporations that always needed GROWTH.
I've been Goodwilling since I was in high school, fools had to have more, new, more, bigger.
Look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but 1547 cpm in Colorado Springs does not sound reasonable to me.
Rather than take such an outlandish claim at face value or reject it out of hand, I just now broke out my trusty (and recently rebuilt and calibrated) CDV-700. Stuffed a fresh set of batteries in it.
The result? 18 cpm. That's from me personally, 40 miles downwind from the America the Beautiful city.
If your numbers were true, I would indeed be alarmed, but I see no sign of elevated cpm levels in the Pikes Peak region (Colorado Springs to the tourists). And keep in mind that Colorado is practically the radon capital of the universe, with naturally-occuring radioactive gas pooling up in the basements even under normal conditions. All new homes come with a blower to suck it out of the house and vent it up onto the roof.
Hey, I HOPE you are right!
I hear you. But that's why I acquired my own set of test equipment. Everybody seems to have their thumb on the scale these days, one way or the other.
The weird thing about this, why isn't any country trying to help Japan?
Why would our government hide the truth?
This would be a global game changer, why the silence?
Is there a political motive here?
Did this even really happen?
1) I don't know if they are or they aren't. The question is: what would constitute some form of effective help in such a situation? I would like to believe that any help Japan might need would be swiftly and freely offered even by nations that are not big fans of the Japanese, but have no way of knowing if they need it or what it might be.
2) Assume for a moment that things are really bad and are going to get worse- but not before you leave office. Then circle back to # 1.
3) One possibility is that it is not as much of as problem as you believe. Another is that it is a very large problem for which they have no current solution but have some hopes of eventually finding one. What is to be gained by creating a worldwide panic that will upset everything, only to discover that the problem does eventually get solved. What can 7 billion freaked-out people add to the solution?
4) Imagine the legal and tort ramifications of Japan admitting that it is poisoning everything. You'd have lawyers pouring onto the Earth from every starcruiser in the galaxy.
5) Sure it happened. But I personally believe it is less of a problem than others may suspect. And what can you do about it? Throw yourself into the nuclear volcano? Stay away from Pacific fish if that worries you. Live your life as if it hasn't happened and doesn't matter, because if it does, what can you do about it anyhow? Focus on the things that will enhance your own life as it is and cross the Fukushima bridge when you come to it.
We must stop radon from forming...
http://www.fix-your-radon.com/images/UsRadonMap2.gif
Definitely have our work cut out for us, because as some have written, there is no safe level of radiation. This in spite of the fact that Thorium and uranium are the two most common radioactive elements on earth and they have been around since the earth was formed.
Standard Disclaimer: Mankind's hubris in the face of nature never ceases to amaze me.
That number sounds insane to me as well...unless the device is a scintillation detector...which would mean no big deal.
I have a CDV-700 I bought for 50 bucks back in the 70's.I like it a lot despite it's inability to detect low energy beta and alpha particles.I was about to upgrade when fukashima drove demand to the moon.I just bought a Inspector alert from international medcom.It has a pancake tube from LND as well as excellent counting capabilities.You can let it count for hours and then do the math to get very accurate readings.I love it and at 549 bucks a screaming bargain!It is much more sensitive,unobtrusive and portable than the CDV-700...which is useful!
For what it is worth I recorded 3 plumes that hit here in Western North Carolina from Fukashima with the 700.But counting the CPM by ear was a drag!The new instrument is so much easier to use.It just lacks the apocalypse feel of the bright yellow monster!!
The VT article strikes me as BS.I get 38 to 40 CPM here on the inspector 12 on the 700...
If over 1000cpm was showing the radiation network (google it)Would show it.That level would trigger hysteria....for good reason!!!!!
Godzilla for sure then
The rods that are burrowing their way into the core of the earth...we'll good riddens...the one or ones that blew out the top and are at the bottom of the Pacific, I have an idea.
We should start a crowd fund to get a robot built that can retrieve it...I'm sure the Japanese kids with their robot fighting competitions we could find some talented ones to take up the task...then when the robot surfaces with the rod we hope that anonymous hacks the bot and programs it to seek out bankers and politicians (current and retired ) then perform anal sex on them with the rod.
Okay okay Santa I know what I want for Christmas
Couldn't happen to a better group of left wing California Climate change wanker's.
Inhale deep, 10 times every hour. You must destabilize through personal intake. Help the spread eastward.
California needs to take it for Team America.
Actually, it's pretty evenly distributed at this point. Check the VT chart.
Well wishing us death is not good for YOU.
Much of the high rad is not in CA, maybe in your backyard.
"wishing us death is not good for YOU.
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Christian/cuckservatives don't care about anything, much less all life but themselves.
That's why they support nonstop wars and zionism.
This. I was born into a zio-christian cuckservative family. All they care about is living as close to their book as possible so that when they die, they are 'good' with God, and get to become gods themselves. I can't stand the idea of living purely for a supposed life after death. It's really sad.
That sounds like Mormonism - "they want to be Gods." Go ahead and eat and drink and be merry today. Its not Chrisitanity that's stopping you from being happy.
We don't hope for war as much as Islam and its friend Communism which have killed a great many more people than Christianity. You and Obama are on the same page there. Sit back, play it cool and let Putin, Isis and China barf on you. There will always be wars (until . . ) because mankind is not satisfied until he has your stuff, whether it be Democrats, Chinese or Isis. FDR pledged "absolutely no war" when running for office. That sent the wrong message to overseas fascists. America's enemies believe they can mess with us, and no thanks to you.
Utah has done that already. Anyone remember that "downwinders" aren't really about a social blunder?
my instinct is to believe this, deep suicidal tendancies I guess - lol... but is natural news a credible source? is enews? are thre any actual credible sources on this? every time Ive shared info that was a bit histrionic like this.. I get Slammed by deniers, etc... do we really know fucking anything at all?
if you really dig down there really is limited need for concern. most of this crap is hyperbole click bait. the real concerns are future events. not only like fukushima but the long term effects of low level radiation on sea life and humans who ingest the seafood.
i haven't seen aquifer contamination news and they are letting people move back into some of the formally restricted areas in the fukushima region.
The real concern is that our insane psychopathic leaders, ably supported by a gullible and supine electorate, have a defense policy based on use of massive nuclear arsenals and thus the extinction of whatever is left of the vibrant blue marble we inherited. Way to go, humans. And God looks like us???
No, We were created in His image, thankfully not the other way around.
There is no solution to this. It is what it is, a fucking unstoppable nuclear fountain.
I fully agree with those against nuclear fission to generate electricity as it generates byproducts that are deadly for centuries. There is always a 100% chance of a failure or accident that will happen to persons places or things, and this was the one.
In a few years I'll be able to live my dream of off grid self sufficiency. My children not so much.
This will take God's hand to fix this mess.
Just saw some new robots on TV last night that have been developed for cleaning up Fukushima (their wording).
They also said it would take 50 years, which is probably massaged like they always do. So: 50 plus years to remedy a kaputt situation. 50 years of costs for a non-performing asset like Fukushima. Just like a wounded war veteran, they also live for another 50 years after their return and have to be cared for. .
Sellafied in Britain is another example of the folly of nuclear power stations that were sold to us with "electricity from nuclear power will be so cheap that it won't be worth measuring and will be free". They tell you a lot when the day is ling, do they.
Someone had an idea of fracking technology to pump concrete in,not sure how that ended.
Better this article than none, BUT. Totally ignored by this article are the even more dangerous levels of strontium and plutonium which must certainly be increasing proportionatly. They last much, much, much (millenia) longer than cesiums. Further it's much harder to measure all dangerous levels of plutonium and strontium, (along with smaller amounts of dangerous "exotics" that accompany corium.) Measuring and tracking plutonium and strontium is very expensive, requiring equipment that needs not only funding but expert monitoring. Yes, there are "poor mans calculations" but few are able to really use them effectivelly. I'd also like to remind some that the cesiums are measured in becquerels in liquids and solids (like food). Sieverts measure the cesiums in air. Most Geiger counters are calibrated to Cesium 137. Sieverts, rads. greys. Roentgens etc really can become confusing and readers should make the efforts to understand each.
How much Strontium 90 is being ingested in dairy products? I remember when milk was dumped across the entire northern tier of states because of "testing" by Russia as well as the US. Born in Utah in the 1940's nobody in our government gave a shit if little kids were glowing in the dark for decades to come because "national defense" was much more important. Many Americans have died on their own soil because we were mere "test" subjects. Monetary compensation, when it fianally happened, was restricted to just a few counties in southern Utah.
Adding radiation injury is the further and ongoing insult of whatever is going on in the deserts of Nevada. If you compare "earthquakes" in Nevada to ever rising radiation levels across Nevada, Utah and Colorado and realize it's much higher EAST of the Sierra it may give you further pause for thought. For many months now a little place called Wimer Place in the far northwest corner of Nevada has been getting pulverized. All those other "quakes" have little to do with frakking. It's everything about what our for profit defense industry is up to.
http://www.quake.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/anss_imw.html
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
No, strontium has about the same half life (even a little less) than cesium, 28 years vs 30 years.
They are both just as deadly, one seeks muscle (mimics potassium), the other bone (mimics calcium). Look at the periodic table under both Ca and K, you'll find Sr and Cs.
Very difficult to detect alpha and beta emitters and gamma emitters can be easily detected with retail Geiger counters.
Strontium is a beta emitter, cesium is a gamma emitter, so cesium will easily be detected in a retail Geiger counter.
Just one tiny particle of an alpha emitter lodged in your lung can be deadly, and very hard to detect.
Since it takes 20 half lives to basically be rid of a radioactive element, it will take up to 600 years for cesium 137 and strontium 90 to disintegrate to nil, plutonium will take 480,000 years.
Adding new accidents or nuclear bomb testing or wars just compounds the problem where there will always be concentrations of deadly radioactive emitters to destroy lives and life itself.
Nuclear use needs to stop now, clean up and contain what is out there now to limit the damage to only half a million years, otherwise it perpetuates.
Other nasty radioactive elements: tritium 12yhl, so around for 200 years, cannot be contained, spews out of every nuclear plant every day, don't be downstream; cobalt 60, 5yhl, so around for 100 years, worry about contaminated steel.
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/radiationtypes.html
What Types of Radiation Are There?The radiation one typically encounters is one of four types: alpha radiation, beta radiation, gamma radiation, and x radiation. Neutron radiation is also encountered in nuclear power plants and high-altitude flight and emitted from some industrial radioactive sources.
Alpha radiation is a heavy, very short-range particle and is actually an ejected helium nucleus. Some characteristics of alpha radiation are:
Examples of some alpha emitters: radium, radon, uranium, thorium.
Beta radiation is a light, short-range particle and is actually an ejected electron. Some characteristics of beta radiation are:
Examples of some pure beta emitters: strontium-90, carbon-14, tritium, and sulfur-35.
Gamma radiation and x rays are highly penetrating electromagnetic radiation. Some characteristics of these radiations are:
Examples of some gamma emitters: iodine-131, cesium-137, cobalt-60, radium-226, and technetium-99m.
Just one more tidbit. When Fukushima blew it created what amounted to a perfectly ball shaped "blast zone" minus the expected physical blast. This invisible blast immediately penetrated and passed right through the entire planet, knocking it into a slightly different orbit. What was in that? Do you really want to know?
there wasn't even a quake. Look at damage from Kobe and Fukushima BEFORE the Tsunami.
What I really want to know is where you get your scientific 'knowledge' from.
Earths kinetic energy is a closed system. Only absorbing the collision of a large astronomical body would alter our kenetic energy profile. Even nuclear bombs are self canceling from a whole earth point of view.
Did it knock us out of the Goldilock zone?
Standard Disclaimer: If you aren't one of the people that regularly medicate, perhaps you should start.
When this whole shitshow is overwith.....the least of our worries will be radiation leakage from FuckUChima.
no worries, things will be back to normal in a billion years or so.
Fortunately,
sea life is immune to radiation poisoning and other man-made pollutants.
(so long as the EPA says US resident humans are "safe", there is no cause for concern.
Nor do the 99 reactors in the USA, nor the hundreds more in operation
or being built in China, India,
and elsewhere warrant any concern.)
Godzilla in 5,4,3...
Godzilla is fictional mutation, whatever comes out of radioactive poisoning ends up dying, not too functional and most likely unable to reproduce.
There must be tons of money being made by savvy investors naked-shorting folks birth certificate bonds!
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/corporate_u_s/news.ph...
Who can tell me what defines the difference between an iosotope, and an element?
An isotope is a DNA molecule which causes nuclear fission in an element. So one is a subset of the other...which is called a null field in mathematics.
An isotope has an extra?
Well done fowlerja
Extra neutrons?
An isotope is an atom whose nuclei contain the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons. Isotopes are broken into two specific types: stable and unstable. These unstable isotopes are commonly referred to as radioactive isotopes.
Standard Disclaimer: Perhaps fowlerja can explain how DNA enters into the picture...
You earned all 8 of those.....
Element is the stanle state of a given element, i.e., oxygen or iron, etc. An isotope is a stable element with (an) extra particle(s) (neutron and/or proton), and isotopes tend to be unstable and decay (at varying rates).
THE number of neutrons.
That's typical bullshit racist white man's physics, and we demands places on campus where we be safe from these imperialist hegemonic inquisitionalizations.
--Mustafa
Oberlin College
Is Hiroshima close to Fukushima? I understand they both have high radiation levels...
"11 Bacquerels per cubic meter of water"
A 60Kg human contains around 120 grams of Potassium. A very small portion of that Potassium is the K40 variety which is radioactive. (which is why potassium rich foods like bananas are accused of being radioactive)
Potassium produces about 30 Bacquerels per gram, or 3600 Bacquerels per human.
You might want consider this the next time you go out in public. /sarc
You don't know what you area talking about. The human body is completely equipped to deal with the natural radiation in bananas but I'll equipped to deal with man made radiation. If you believe that hocus-pocus then because you like eating food you like eating shit too.
Why are you not mentioning the Uranium or Strontium or Plutonium?
One hot particle introduced into a test animal (beagles) causes death 100% of the time.
Do you have an agenda in regurgitating Ken Abuselers lies?
Sadly, neither you nor I or our children will be spared the effects of this.
You stink.
Natural vs manmade isotopes.
If they are truly interested in monitoring harm to people they will monitor the alpha emitters not the low level gamma emitters like radiocesium. You do not want to eat or drink alpha emitters which were released in huge quantities by the disaster.
In QE 28, the BOJ will buy up the West Coast.
Now I know why El Nina (o) is the biggest so far, the ocean is being nuked. :)
Then we have all those nuke powered subs and aircraft carriers the USA have in the water. If a conventional war breaks out and one or more go to the bottom, will it make this nuclear reactor incident seem like child's play?
My thinking is if environmental concerns are that important and nuclear incidents are too difficult to control, they should take these nuclear powered boats and disable them. The worst thing that may happen in a diesel powered ship is temporary air pollution and an oil slick which is finite in coverage.
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Fukushima Muon measurements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCNRmbva48
Try a Coffin for Size: The Death Business Is Thriving in Japan
15 December 2015, by Monami Yui (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-15/try-a-coffin-for-size-...
Fukushima Finger ( Mystery Man Footage ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wFfkZ9qDE
The Japanese the most brainwashed weirdos on the planet.
Violent sex cartoon drawings.
No longer have sex as young people.
Obsession with half robot half human hybrids.
look at this trend, bagel head.
https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+bagel+head+hoax&biw=1366&bih=634&s...
Yeah, but you gotta love this...
https://youtu.be/o6byuVwLSdA
Look who he supports
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/Roscoe_Karns/misc2/donut-heads.jpg
Don't you find it Spock-like 'fascinating' that... both warrior countries of Germany and Japan have been turned completely into docile sheeple in ~2 generations?
Perhaps the reverse is true.
To quote Kevin Blanch,
"Going to happen? Happening? Happened fuckers! The nuclear cartel have killed you and you're too full of dogma burgers to even see it!"
Stay un-tuna'd.
FUKUSHIMA is a terrible example of Government politics triumphing over the truth and responsibility to citizens. To be honest, I never would have thought that the Japanese Government would behave this way. Especially because Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a strong part of the culture in Japan. But the Government covered things up in a major way.
Likewise, its pretty clear that the US Government MUST have a lot of data from submersibles and drones. But the comprehensive reports have never been revealed to the public. That is a very sad statement about accountability and truth in public reporting.
HOWEVER, this is NOT a reflection on the integrity of individual scientists. You already quoted the work of one scientist who is trying to get accurate data - and then tell the public. This is science and truth AT THEIR BEST!!! The main problem with individual scientists doing this type of research ... they just don't have the resources to get a good grasp of the big picture. That would require thousands of measurements of radioactivity data from different places, and that is very expensive. So WE TRULY DON'T KNOW what the worst levels are out there ... or where they are.
You need to quit worrying about seawater. People eat fish, people eat crabs. Some species are bottom feeders ... like Alaskan halibut and crab. I betcha' the high radioactivity is more likey to show up there. But maybe I'm wrong, and it's in some other species. The point is ... what matters to us is which fish are getting the highest doses. Because we're all eating those fish!!
Not me. Since March 2011 I have not had one bite of any kind of fish.
We are told in the SF bay area we can't eat the local crab due to an algee bloom ,this year but not a word about Fukushima.
I think the algea bloom was created (man made) as an excuse to forbid sea food consumption...
helen of bikini, and castle bravo..now that was radiation..seems we still ban sea food or any food from those atolls since 1954..back then when radiation was fun..fuki ain't anywhere near what castle bravo unleashed.
in those tests , seems the islanders were told not to worry, and no need to take preventive measures from the fall out of castle bravo..they became great human test subjects..
I trust the .gov that gave that good advice to those islanders in 1954, not.
mr einstein
" the unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"
for those of us on ZH ..we see daily the use of wealth to destroy our freedoms and government, ..the FED and others enable the corrupt to waste our wealth while they ignore the threats to mankind..that is our biggest failings and history nodoubt will condemn us for ..misalocation of resources by criminal elites..atomic power must be item one for mankind as it alone can destroy us all (power plants and weapons both)..yet false fears of things like climate change are wasting massive amounts of the wealth available..
There is the truth and then there is what works to the advantage of the government or any public speaker.
The two never intersect.
what is evident is that there is no scientific agency reporting on this disaster that the people trust to give them the truth... Alaska, British Columbia,Washington and Oregon look to be directly in the storm path that sweeps across the Pacific Ocean from Japan. I'd take some readings from the rain barrel and tidal pools if I lived in any of those coastal areas even though there is probably no place to run to to be completely safe. I would move if the evidence said it might not be a bad idea to get away.
Portland Farmers markets people are using rad detectors on veggies before buying.
When this first happened I called GE investor relations to ask them why they weren't doing anything to help. The bitch finally told me that if I called one more time she was going to "call security."
Because what matters in the corporate world is lunch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6mWn5S0RxI
So who goes to jail?
o right
No one
Corprate veil. Soveriegn immunity. War provisioning tax code enforced by goons with guns forever.
Take away any of these three and the nuclear industry does exist. A completely different timeline of reality.
And before people get to far in the weeds on Bqs. Rads. Please go buy a dog whistle. Take a walk around your neighborhood in the middle of the night. That specifc frequency of sound irritates/agitates dogs. Nobody else can hear it. Life on earth is adapted to the specific frequencies and magnitudes of natural radioactive isotopes. Emissions from man made isotopes emit frequencies like the dog whistle. They do not nessicarly need to be at "some minimum level" or exceed "background" to cause illness.
Indeed.
So when do real estate prices go down in Santa Barbara/Montecito? Obviously, the big money there thinks you're crazy/alarmist. Nobody's selling.
I hear yucca mountian has some of the highest property values/investment per square foot of any place on earth . Maybe even on par with downtown Tokyo or NYC.
'cause we decided we don't actually need to put nuclear waste there until it exceeds the level emitted by a banana, walking in sunshine, or cross county airplane ride. The earthquake simply saved japan from having to build or pay for waste depositories /sarc.
Politicians and their goons with guns aside. These Scientists need to use science. Which includes falsifiablity or there is a rule that they have to give up those sheep skins, funny hats and robes.
Tel Aviv is the new hot spot for Hollywood, eh. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tel-aviv-is-hollywoods-new-848528
Obviously...
General Electric: "We bring good things to (Half) life".
Oh, that funny bunch. They got us good. I went online to replacement docs and got the manual for the GE built Fukushima reactors and on page two it says to always always keep your backup generators out of danger and in good running order.
The only thing that could be a silver lining is if the fallout dumps on Southern California. Fuck you, California! Keep your slithery asses out of my beautiful state, you cash-out pieces of shit!
Using depleted uranium in Iraq 2 is just as fucked up. But then, obviously, there is nothing to be concerned about. The only people who count are the special people who own the Federal Reserve, pretend to a Crown, presume to lead the nations, sit on corporate boards. Why is this such a big deal? Taste the golden spray!
By the way I shorted Long John Silvers and went broke. Please donate to my paypal because I live in a Uhaul rental garage next to Mcdonalds that has wifi and I need a drink real bad. God Bless you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V6IU9tfXDo
They look evil and like they are hiding a very big secret.
Fukushima is an ongoing multistage disaster in the stage one. The reactor vessels and buildings are deteriorating in extreme rates threatening to collapse while still there is no plan for decommission of the one reactor that did not melted down and no technology to decommission those, which did. After freezing wall failure steel and concrete wall is failure as well, a propaganda ploy to temporary limit the discharge of the contaminated water to the ocean and by raising the level of contaminate water table will increase size of the plume and affect wider coastal area than it is now ,all while decontamination equipment failed due to corrosion.
Very telling is attitude of the Japanee government toward this man-made disaster; yes man-made disaster of Fukushima. Another symbolic fiction of justice of those gluttonous and murderous corporate types that are cancer to Japanese society and an insult to tens thousands of victims many not found or identified yet. Lawlessness is all around us, in Japan and elsewhere when apology for killing thousands is all there is to it.
It’s been over nine months since I posted the below comment on ZH and nothing really changed since then except another failure of some robotic toy :
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-small-robot-interior-fukushima-daiichi.html#jCp
and turning back to the old tired ideas of ice wall proven wrong long time ago. Now they try another band aid to frantically stop massive seepage of the highly radioactive water to the ocean that was declared SAFE for fishing years ago namely steel and concrete reinforced wall at the edge of the water and not a confinement of the melted reactors that continue to contaminate ground water with thousands of tones of radioactive water, by-product of cooling of the reactors with cracked containment vessels and missing melted nuclear fuel. They are truly hopeless with no solution even on the drawing board. It looks like they will obliterate themselves without help from Godzilla.
Also we had a lesson of justice Japanese style, when legal peoples’ court indicted the TEPCO for crimes of deliberate murder and physical, psychological and economical injury based on TEPCO previous knowledge of unmitigated seismic dangers that invalidated Fukushima NPP operational license and required by law immediate shutting down of Fukushima NPP, was rejected by Sendai prefecture prosecutor due to “lack of evidence” unveiling true face of Japanese totalitarian regime disguised as “democracy”. TOO BIG TO JAIL JAPANESE STYLE.
More on true Japan can be found at:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wa...
So here I go for those who missed it.
Over 4 years passed since Fukushima disaster so it’s time for quick recapitulation of the situation:
Two of four reactors suffered complete melt down, one partial meltdown and fourth which was not operational at that time still has big spent fuel problem which cannot be removed, posing threat of explosion if another disaster hits.
In four years what they accomplished was merely pouring water on cores of melted reactors and pumping it into hundreds of storage tanks build in the vicinity of NPP while having no clue what to do with it. Attempts to effectively decontaminate it failed.
The vessel containments of melted down reactors have failed. They developed concrete cracks as well damage of pressure piping during disaster and in aftermath. Through those fissures some of nuclear fuel and highly contaminated water’s pouring into ground water system.
The fact of bridging containment vessel (prelude to China syndrome) alone leads to horrifying conclusions that the problem is unfixable at all, short of currently impossible task of removing all melted nuclear fuel from vessel and/or wherever it went. The truth that anyone involved in mitigation of this disaster wouldn’t even utter.
On the top of it after four years TEPCO does not have good account of state of melted down reactors or complete list of damages, since supposedly world leading powerhouse robotics nation cannot produce one dammed good robot that would work in such extreme conditions. Several attempts to deploy robots have been proven complete failure.
It is shocking but they simply do not know what to do. They are in loss, confusion and panic, tons of nuclear fuel are missing, unaccounted for. There is neither plan, nor technology invented yet to tackle the problem. In desperation thousand retired workers indebted to Japanese mafia were being sent there into these reactors, for two minutes each, to senselessly die on orders of Japanese Oligarchs. It is that bad.
Since rate of process of removing radiation from highly contaminated water is many times lower that rate of pumping newly contaminated water into new, freshly built storage tanks, the whole effort is hopeless from engineering point of view. All this is just Sisyphus work, which lead to nowhere since they have to keep pumping water to cool and moderate fission material inside leaky damaged reactors so they will not blow up again. Now many those tanks are also leaking profusely back to ground water adding to chaos. All the contaminated water leaked from reactor vessels and storage tanks ends up in the ocean continually bleeding radiation and all frantic attempts of preventive measures such as “ice wall” utterly failed.
Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011.
The official talk about Fukushima NPP decommission process planned for about four decades supposedly already started is a cruel fairy tale in context of utterly hopeless situation on the ground. The apparent inertia and indifference of the government, busy destroying Japanese economy with QE, cannot be explained in any other way than deliberated criminal, genocidal act against Japanese nation and world community unless you believe in fairy tales.
Situation at some US nuclear power plants and decommission efforts:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/devils-good-intentions/
and propaganda lies about renewable and nuclear energy, an excerpt from https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/engineering-renewable-delusions/ about fallacy of the concept of peaceful application of nuclear power.
The Nuclear power however, is neither clean nor sustainable and is simply a cruel hoax, masquerading as power generating technology. There is no such a thing as peaceful or civilian nuclear power. Little history. When in early fifties nuclear weapons race between US and Soviets and later China was in its apex a problem aroused of running huge operation of producing nuclear weapons in total secrecy. The issue was necessity of running secretly many nuclear reactors fueled with over 99% of U238 and less than 1% of isotope U235 which after controlled fission burning produced 3-4% of isotope U235 ready for subsequent enrichment in order to produce nuclear weapon grade fuel. Another problem was that further enrichment of uranium U235 and Plutonium Pu239 isotopes required enormous amounts of electricity, for running of hundreds of thousands mechanical centrifuges 24/7 affecting whole national power system with variety effects that were not easy to conceal.
To the rescue came bunch propagandists from Pentagon or W.H. and devised peaceful use of nuclear energy mantra, brilliantly conceived method of hiding massive nuclear war preparation effort as a benign service to humanity as proclaimed by president Eisenhower as early as in 1953. As a result first so-called US Civilian Nuclear Power Plant was born in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957, with moderate redesign of original military nuclear reactor and adding steam turbine and electric power generators. Even deadly adversaries of US in Soviet Union did not openly attack Eisenhower, by calling him liar and hypocrite in editorial of “PRAVDA” newspaper as they usually did but instead they were uncannily receptive to supposed “peace” overtures. They must have understood the point and figured out that they can also use this propaganda ploy to keep readying to nuclear confrontation while utilizing previously useless steam to light up half of Siberia, all in the name of world peace. No need to go on.
Ignoring inherited environmental dangers and flaws in basic concepts of design, nuclear power plants were never meant for civilian use for one reason alone. Namely complete lack of any technology enabling utilization of deadly, lasting up to billion years, nuclear waste for any further civilian use and fairy tales about new breeder reactor technologies do not change anything in that matter. The Fukushima NPP disaster is prime example of deadly results of reckless design based more on war contingencies than consideration for civilian lives, combined with complete criminal incompetence of private operator focused solely on profit. The medium term effects are starting to show up in form of 6000% increase in cancer cases in Fukushima prefecture while authorities call area safe.
UPDATE: [The old prisoners and those old guys indebted to Japanese mafia which were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation within first days and weeks all of them are dying many already died but you want hear it from NHK. They increase acceptable level of radiation 30 times in comparison to what it was before disaster and on the top of that their measurements of radiation were base of beta decay (Geiger) and not on alpha decay which as more deadly to human organism. Also 6000% increase in cancer cases in Fukushima NPP area have been already reported.90% of population in Fukushima area did not return even to so called safe areas. They know better.
Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011. So far in 2015 allowing only single one to be restarted spurring massive protests in Japan.]
+ 1000 @ Scatha...just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't killing us all, slowly and surely. EPA upped the acceptable limits of radiation, sea food is no longer required to indicate origin, Hitlery lifted ban on sea food from Japan...
The only good thing about this disaster, is that Obama hopefully goes for nice long swims in the pacific ocean off hawaii while on vacation...
Dude, that's 11 (eleven) bacquerels/m3/sec.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/ionizing.html
Jesus Dude. Are you making a fuzz about nothing??
That's what I've been saying,
If one was to take ONE fucking flight from NY to LA your exspose to Radiation would be thousands of times higher than the 660 dpm this report is saying.
If these numbers scare you, you need to stay inside and better not take any airplane rides...
Don't worry be happy. Nuclear radiation is reall OK and good for you.
hmm I see that the General Electric and Bechtel employees are out in force here. Paid to post
remember if you think positive or even SMILE, you are immune to even severe radiation-Mayor of Tokyo
Actually, that's true. If you are exposed to NO RADIATION WHATSOEVER, you become unhealthy. Strange, but true...
Better get rid of your granite countertops as well. Yuhuh, they are radioactive. And keep away from any concrete manufactured from coal power station fly ash...
External radiation is repelled by the skin. That's why your internal organs don't get sunburnt at the beach. But now we are consuming man made radiation Our bodies have always processed certified organic radiation in bananas but we cannot process the manmade radiation.
the difference isn't because of source, man made or natural, it's the type of radiation, alpha, beta, gamma and x-ray that defines what behavior they have.
the skin is a barrier for alpha radiation only
beta can be shielded with plastic or aluminum
gamma and x-ray can only be shielded with thick lead or concrete
the reasons why the K40 isotope of potassium ain't deadly (as in bananas) is that it's only .012% of potassium, and it's half life is 1.25 billion years, so decays very slow and thus it's radiation is low.
If you try to eat too many bananas, the amino acids will cause you to feel sick before the K40 ever will
(All other potassium isotopes have half-lives under a day, most under a minute, so aren't present in bananas or K salt)
One correction here.
All radiations can be shielded using just about anything. But 1 PF (Protection Factor) of lead may be thinner than 1 PF of hardwood, which may be thinner than 1 PF of softwood and so on. Dirt is a very fine PF substance since it is so inexpensive and readily available.
Donald Trump for Pres! bz done did dooo. lol FACT mofo's see yah later
Those who wander past Rense.com on their way to or from ZH will find nothing new here.
How soon will the Dead Pacific Sea yield to the Dead West Coast, and is California dreamin'?
(Fuk-U triple melted on Day 1 and should have been nuked into oblivion while the cores were still above ground. What are B-52s for? What is Nippon for? Too late now.)
h1 h2 visa bullsit fix it
mofo guess u dont care we homeless fix it or else
It's all and always about the money. Like Belgium for instance, they re-opened 2 reactors for another 10 years although they are designed to last uptill now and despite of the thousand discovered cracks in the reactor containers and continuous problems like fires, defect pumps etc... Those idiots are leading us to disaster.
Radiation from fukushima has not been detected in the ocean. CONTAMINATION by isotopes is what has been detected. Learn the difference.
Yours is a true statement, but to the average Joe they are one in the same.
As for me, I'm just satisfied the average Joe is being alerted to this danger.
I don't think your comment deserved 9 downvotes.
This article is shit. It's so bad it's like a parody.
Government limits.... what a farce, and we all know so well how the government tells the manipulated truth about anything.
I was very young but remember
Sellafield: 'It was all contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course'http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-bo...
UK gov kept everthing quiet.
And hey all that harp activity along droughted west coast?
My guess is they are blocking rain from passing east to reduce contaimination actross western states.
Just my 10 silver dollars worth.
Totally agree with you @ Webmatex...
I read somewhere that Russia had used their HAARP arrays to create a system of high pressure to keep the radiation away from Russia in the immediate aftermath of 03/11.
Chernobyl contaminated sheep 2000 miles to the west in Wales UK. The herds are still not fit for consumption.
That's what makes nuclear war such a great iidea.
And that's just not true. Is it a lie or just ignorance?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-17472698
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scottish-sheep-farms-finally-f...
Chernobyl radiation still in high levels in Hero jam from Europe.
I will pass on the California and spicy tuna roll. It is extra spicy these days.
It is such a nice way to thin the herd. After all this world loves death and if not war, then radiation will do the job.
We are such a stupid species. You know there was one guy who said "putting a reactor in such an active fault zone sounds like a bad idea"
Then his middle manager likely fired him for being stupid then recommended that the storage pools go on the roof because it was cool.
They actually excavated the natural rock mountain - over 100 metres high - to level the entire area down to sea level.
True!
Karmic retribution - 1945 full circle?
Japanese government is a trustworthy as their debt level.
Japanese government is a trustworthy as their debt level.
So....Highly trustworthy, then?
Hmmmm.....
I almost bought myself an electronic gieger counter3 years ago, you can get quote good stuff now days for ~US$600. Alpha and Beta particles detected, logging, etc...I'm glad I didn't.
WHile yes, Fukishima is a mess, a GRAND mess. And Yes the Japanese government (and the Canadian, German, American, British gevernments) lies as does Tepco....this is NOT the end of the world.
Chernobyl wasn't the end of the world either. And the area around the plant in Chernobyl is not a lifeless desert, quite the opposite, its an eco refuge in the middle of decaying Ukraine.
The nuclear doom porn types are becoming as unglued as the globull warming types. None of your dire projections of destroying the Pacific have come true nor has the massive radiation on the North American West Coast happened either.
There is MUCH we don't understand about what is going on. Its not good but its not the end of the world either.
The use of useless hyperbole in the titles of these articles does NOT help the cause.
Squid
Is that the radioactive kool aid talking, Squid?
I suggest you look up Dana Durnford aka the nuclear proctologist or watch Dr. Helen Caldicott...and see what they have to say on the subject.
Yes, yes, yes, we're all going to die, the sky will fall etc....
And now what?
This is more of a Japanese problem than anything else.
The Pacific ocean is pretty big, my best guess is that North America does not have much to worry about. But if you want to go hysterical, by all means, have at it. No problem at all.
I was looking at getting myself a PRM-9000 from Mazur Instruments. Go and get one and log and draw graphs to your heart's content.
Cheers,
Squid
"Go West, young man!" John Soule 1851. Oh, wait! "Go East, young man!"
It's what I do understand that scares me.
Those reactors will never be isolated and cleaned up because they are un-approachable.
The radiation is so high it even disables robots in short order. Anything plastic, such as wiring insulation, would deteriorate at a very accelerated pace. Ever see an old kiddie pool left out for a few years? When you finally go to throw it away the thing crumbles? Imaging the radiation from the sun doing that to the pool x 1000000000.
At least
Why won't the Tylers discuss the REAL pressing problems facing America and the world, you know like White racism and the Confederate Flag? I mean isn't ZH an ABC affiliate now?
What happened to the flag issue? It was the meaning of life a few hundred murders ago.
Its right there in the upper left hand corner.....
different ABC
Not to mention Dwarf Tossing. ZH is totally silent and irresponsible about this.
"everything will be fine in a few billion or so years."
First thing to understand about radiation is that the more radioactive something is, the shorter the half life is. The really dangerous stuff has a very short half life. By definition. Once an isotope has decayed it is no longer radioactive. If It takes a billion years then the stuff is not very radioactive at all and is relatively safe.
Things which decay in hours -> years are the things you need to keep well away from, but they are also things which again, by definition are not going to be a really long term problem.
Second thing to understand is radiation is blocked by matter. 4" of lead will reduce exposure by a factor of 1000. 7cm (2 inches) of water halfs the exposure so around 2 feet of water would have the same effect as the lead.
So. Fukushima - Not good but not the end of the world... To put it into perspective it's a public health level problem, not a civilisational level problem.
Yes. In case anyone missed this class, half life means the radiation level will be 50% after that time, for example 30 years. But note that after 60 years it wll be halved again to 25% so it's not over. In fact it's never completely over.
"In fact it's never completely over."
Correct. You are SURROUNDED!!!! by radiation today. You are being EXPOSED right NOW!!! Have you CHECKED how much you're getting NOW?
You smoke? Take plane flights? Eat vegetables? Meat? Been to the doctor, got an X-ray? How much time did you spend sitting in front of cathode ray tubes? Got a Microwave? Live anywhere near a COAL power station?
YOU'VE BEEN EXPOSED!!!!
Find out how big your dose is
Depends on the emitter.
4" of lead will shield Iridium 192 fairly well, but not so much Colbalt 60.
I'm curious where you get the information that the stronger hard gamma emitters have shorter half-lifes.
If I'm not mistaken plutonium has a half life of 240 centuries.
Disintegrations per second.
Whether it's alpha, beta or gamma is irrelevant. I assumed gamma rays, so yes 4" of lead or 2 feet of water will shield against cobolt 60 radiation reducing it by a factor of 1000. Alpha radiation is stopped by a sheet of paper, beta radiation, a sheet of aluminium. Both will cause damage, but the real danger is if ingested.
Depends on the isotope. Plutonium 239 does, but it's not the really dangerous isotope. Plutonium 238 an 241 are the dangerous ones. Half lives ~30 years they're a thousand times more dangerous. Lots of disintigrations per second so lots of opportunities to ionise body tissues. But then, they decay over 30 years.
What this all means is that you have to be physically close to the emission source. Particularly in water, you have to be within 2 feet of it, or have ingested it. One thing they should be trying at Fukushima is "clarifying" the output water, cause all particulates to sink to the bottom.
Yes sir. The emitting particulates.
Once these are filtered of otherwise trapped, the source of.radiation is thus trapped.
Irrelevant as that place cannot.be approached in our lifetimes. It is what it is.
You sound like a Health Physicist I knew in a past life.
Some good pints but not completely true. If a long life isotope lodges around your heart you will have a heart attack risk. In Japan heart attacks are increasingly prevalent after Fukushima. You cannot clad your internal organs in 4 inch lead.
To quote myself : "To put it into perspective it's a public health level problem, not a civilisational level problem"
I'm not saying there's no problem. There is and it's a big problem. But it's on the scale of not consuming radioactive particles. Ironically it might be the best thing that's happened to the Pacific since humanity created the drag net.
Somebody needs to do that "Baby Loses Everything" e-Trade commercial over starring the baby as a technician in charge of the reactors. Or maybe "Hitler discovers the word is out about the reactors melting down".
Between Bernie apologist to Hillary and Hillary apologies for getting motorboated during a commercial break.
Sorry fucknobs, we're just more important than you. Stay on the slavery plantation, vote for DNC. We offer new 2016 gifts, you just don't realize that you actually pay for them. We sing like a nightingale when offering you free shit.
Great, that's all we need.
Two-headed grunge artists out of the Northwest.
Increasing radiation increases the probability of contracting an illness. Smoking and lung cancer is the same, not everybody who smokes will get lung cncer but the %risk increases.
As dirty "fukushima" harry says, do you feel lucky west side of the US? Well do ya?
As for government paid scientists, from the ones who were caught falsifying climate change records in the UK to the lead scientist in the UK responsible for getting Asaprtme added to soft drinks a Paul Turner of the FS Agency who was sacked. Do any of them tell the truth? Sure seems like they are so busy filling their pockets with fiat to care about the truth.
GE: we bring good things to life!!! Que the line dancing happy faced employees making reactors for volcanically unstable islands prone to tsunami's! No one EVER talks about that fuck up and the environment. Don't you wish you had that kind of push with your environment destroying company? What a deal!
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Karma's a bitch.
Yes!!!. Let us never forget, and only USA ever did it. So far.
Civilian targets mind you - biggest act of terrorism ever.
No wonder our lot are paranoid about an asymmetric enemy managing a similar thing.
We set an example for others to follow - it's called US exceptionalism.
You might fel differently if you were a grunt taking a boat ride to an Okinawan beach in 1945....
The PC crowd already have a campaign against dissing folks with non-standard numbers of heads, limbs etc..
One question. Should I stop eating Pistachios??? I will miss them if the answer is yes.
MH17: Australia Say Russia Not To Blame, Evidence Tampered With
http://yournewswire.com/mh17-australia-say-russia-not-to-blame-evidence-tampered-with/
DUTCH SAFETY BOARD TAMPERING WITH MH17 FUSELAGE EVIDENCE
This is when I thank God I am in Saskatchewan, with the best meat on the planet. I used to eat fish once every 5-6 months or so, not any more. Although we do have fresh water fish, I just won't take the chance.
But is the basement in your house sealed and vented for radon? Saskatechewan (and Alberta) are hotspots for radon gas in the ground and getting into houses.
You're getting hundreds of times the dose from radioactive radon gas your house as you would get from food you eat.
This is a perfect example of the irrationality of people. They get all worked up about a completely irrelevant source of radiation, yet are living in a lethal environment, namely their own homes.