Fukushima: The Ticking Nuclear Bomb. Over 800 Tons of Radioactive Material Pouring into Pacific Ocea

[Baluarte]

Fukushima: The Ticking Nuclear Bomb. Over 800 Tons of Radioactive Material Pouring into Pacific Ocean

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-the-ticking-nuclear-bomb-over-800-tons-of-radioactive-material-pouring-into-pacific-ocean/5356276

In August this column ran a piece claiming that the Pacific Ocean was being poisoned by radioactive material escaping from Fukushima, two years after the devastating tsunami and meltdown at the Japanese nuclear facility. Three months later, shocking evidence points towards a calamity situation. Silence from the corporate media

There is growing evidence coming from numerous reports aired on social networks and the so-called social media, among which is the article “Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean” (*), which claimed that every day and for 750 days (now over 800) tonnes of toxic materials have been pouring into the Pacific Ocean.

The toxic substances were identified as Tritium, Cesium and Strontium, being carried far and wide by winds, rain and ocean currents, entering the food chain through seaweed and seafood, building up high levels of toxicity in the fish – and humans – at the top end of the consumption chain.

TEPCO, or Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the plant, admitted in August that between twenty and forty trillion becquerels of radioactive material have entered the Pacific Ocean after a security barrier had been breached. The same operator admitted that in just one week, in August, levels of Caesium-134 rose by 90 times and Caesium-137 rose by 86 times.

Fresh research (**) provides a chilling reminder that this situation is serious, will not go away, is getting worse and cannot be swept under the carpet. This research points to “massive numbers” of sea creatures dying across the Pacific, and that high levels of Cesium-137 are present in “a very high percentage of fish” caught in this ocean “and sold in North America”.

The research then moves on to refer to specific and unexplained incidents. For example, the unexplained death of starfish off Puget Sound off Canada. The animals seem to be melting, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in Canadian waters. Divers spoke of live creatures literally disintegrating in front of them, in “massive numbers”.

On to British Columbia, where abnormal behavior and an unusually high death rate has been observed among killer whales. The vocal communication among the animals has ceased, and in the last two years, seven matriarchs have died.

An Australian traveler sailing from Japan to California, USA, referred that it appeared the entire ocean was dead. All he saw was a whale rolling helplessly in the sea with a tumour on its head, and “for 3,000 nautical miles there was nothing to be seen”. No turtles, no sea birds, no dolphins, no sharks.

On to Alaska, where polar bears, seals and walruses have loss of fur and suffer from open sores on their skin. On to Southern California, where 45 per cent of sea lion pups have died, described by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as “an unusual mortality event”.

Back up to Canada, where the sockeye salmon faces record low numbers, up across the entire west coast of Canada, where fish are dying from bleeding eyes, gills and bellies.

Back across the Ocean, where extremely high levels of Cesium-137 have been found between Hawaii and California. On a test made on 15 dead tuna, all 15 were found to be contaminated with radiation. Of the fish being sold to Canada, in 2012, the Vancouver Sun recorded the number of specimens testing positive for Cesium-137, namely:

100 per cent of monkfish, carp, seaweed and shark; 94% of cod and anchovies; 93% of tuna and eels; 92% of sardines; 91% of halibut; 73% of mackerel.

Fukushima continues to leak, and leak at ever increasing rates and the latest prediction is that this contamination will continue until 2015, at the earliest. Until then, will the Pacific Ocean be poisoned beyond repair (if this has not happened already)? And when will the authorities explain to us what is happening? When our babies are born glowing bright green and blinking at us through seven eyes?

[Ultra]

Is this real?

[Baluarte]

Is this real?

Some question... Of course it is.

[Scandalf]

Is this real?

To a certain degree, yes. However the Pacific is already poluted (we just pretend to not realize it) ever since the first atomic tests (Bikini). And by extension the whole biosphere is poluted with artificial radionuclides.
Nuclear fission, like the one in a nuclear detonation, is "dirty" in the sense it produces a large amount of isotopes with their various energies and half-lifes.
By comparison something natural like a meteor (Tunguska) is "clean".

[Ultra]

To a certain degree, yes. However the Pacific is already poluted (we just pretend to not realize it) ever since the first atomic tests (Bikini). And by extension the whole biosphere is poluted with artificial radionuclides.
Nuclear fission, like the one in a nuclear detonation, is "dirty" in the sense it produces a large amount of isotopes with their various energies and half-lifes.
By comparison something natural like a meteor (Tunguska) is "clean".
Well that's what I thought. I heard the testing on fish for radioactive isotopes is something they started with after the Fukushima incident, meaning, the abundance and accumulation in fish and other sea-life prior to the accident would be quite unknown.


Some question... Of course it is.
Well what can I say, it's hard to digest when this is barely mentioned anywhere and not even green party politicians/activists talk about it who otherwise seemingly oppose nuclear power so much. And then I get to read about this disaster being on such a magnitude of what I previously so far could've imagined! I think my reaction is rather logical. ;p

[Baluarte]

barely mentioned anywhere and not even green party politicians/activists talk about it who otherwise seemingly oppose nuclear power so much.

Green parties in Europe are the biggest scam. Barely anything to do with real ecology anymore, just another, even more rootless, liberal lefty charade.
Their biggest issues in France or Germany are gay marriage, supporting immigration and further public spending. Just jokes.

Never trust the corporate media or mainstream parties. All of them coopted by the system.

[Windischer]

LOL nuclear reactor and nuclear bomb are two different things. but lets explain that to dumboz who believe every propagandistic sensationalist "article".

[Ultra]

Green parties in Europe are the biggest scam. Barely anything to do with real ecology anymore, just another, even more rootless, liberal lefty charade.
Their biggest issues in France or Germany are gay marriage, supporting immigration and further public spending. Just jokes.

Never trust the corporate media or mainstream parties. All of them coopted by the system.
Yep, I know. Most of their proposals to "fix" the environment are just unsustainable and even worse for the environment = scam indeed. Plus the "global warming" is just another big senseless hype made up from excrement.

And you are also right about corporate media and mainstream parties, it's just, for some reason it feels different over this incident. Which ones in the world have anything to gain on hiding the magnitude of this disaster, apart from certain Japanese politicians and high-ranking government officials and the owner & operators of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant? Since it seems to be covered up on a global scale there has to be much more to it?

[Ultra]

LOL nuclear reactor and nuclear bomb are two different things. but lets explain that to dumboz who believe every propagandistic sensationalist "article".
Yes of course they are different.. the nuclear fallout from for example the Chernobyl NPP disaster is only at the very least many more hundred times than that of an atomic bomb. :picard2:

[Smaland]

Fukushima: The Ticking Nuclear Bomb. Over 800 Tons of Radioactive Material Pouring into Pacific Ocean

By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-the-ticking-nuclear-bomb-over-800-tons-of-radioactive-material-pouring-into-pacific-ocean/5356276

In August this column ran a piece claiming that the Pacific Ocean was being poisoned by radioactive material escaping from Fukushima, two years after the devastating tsunami and meltdown at the Japanese nuclear facility. Three months later, shocking evidence points towards a calamity situation. Silence from the corporate media

There is growing evidence coming from numerous reports aired on social networks and the so-called social media, among which is the article “Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean” (*), which claimed that every day and for 750 days (now over 800) tonnes of toxic materials have been pouring into the Pacific Ocean.
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How reliable is "evidence" based solely on social networks and social media???

[King Claus]

Is this real?

And i never eat fish:)

[Graham]

They say you should limit, how much Tuna you eat, due to Mercury contamination. The Seas were already Toxic, to begin with.

[Windischer]

Yes of course they are different.. the nuclear fallout from for example the Chernobyl NPP disaster is only at the very least many more hundred times than that of an atomic bomb. :picard2:

reactors dont explode like a bomb does, for example :picard2:
calling fukushima "the ticking nuclear bomb" requires a tr00 dumbo.

[Baluarte]

The title of the article is evidently figurative. It's not meant as a literal ticking bomb.

If it displeases so much though, you're welcome to contact Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey and explain to him why the title of his piece should be modified.

[Virtuous]

Sad.

[Windischer]

The title of the article is evidently figurative. It's not meant as a literal ticking bomb.

If it displeases so much though, you're welcome to contact Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey and explain to him why the title of his piece should be modified.

yea sure. nuclear bombs actually dont tick.
a small correction: the title of the article is a sensationalist bait.

[Scandalf]

They say you should limit, how much Tuna you eat, due to Mercury contamination. The Seas were already Toxic, to begin with.

Very true. There has been an accident in Japan by the way back in the 60's I guess that dealt with heavy metal (mercury) poisoning in a Japanese fisher's village. It resulted from the dumping in the sea by a firm.
The problem with heavy metals is that they accumulate in living beings and the biological mechanisms to eliminate them (like other wastes) aren't so efficient.
Plus, worst of all, since they almost can't be eliminated their quantity increases the more we move up to the tip of the food chain.
That is: krill or plancton have a certain amount (incredibly low), some small fish eat large amounts of plancton (they have to, food chain/bio-energy mechanics) acting as "sponges" who "filter out the other stuff" while accumulating heavy metals, they get ate by makerel which gets eaten by tuna which gets eaten by man, etc...

[Baluarte]

Regarding North America:
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Fukushima Radiation Levels Will Concentrate in Pockets at Specific US and Canada West Coast Locations


500 people assembled on October 19th on Ocean Beach in San Francisco and formed the letters with their bodies to demonstrate their growing concern about eventual fallout on the west coast.

Credit and More Information: FukushimaResponse.org

Experts at Canada’s Vancouver Aquarium say they are puzzled by what is causing thousands of sunflower starfish, or sea stars, to die in the waters of Vancouver Harbor and Howe Sound.

What is even more startling is the way the creatures perish — by quickly dissolving in a phenomenon the aquarium has dubbed Sea Star Wasting Syndrome.

“They have disintegrated, and now there is just goo left,” says research diver and taxonomist Donna Gibbs.


Radiation Levels Will Concentrate in Pockets at Certain West Coast Locations

An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/North_Pacific_Subtropical_Convergence_Zone.jpg

The leg of the Gyre closest to Japan – the Kuroshio current – begins right next to Fukushima:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51997000/jpg/_51997069_japan_currents_464.jpg

While many people assume that the ocean will dilute the Fukushima radiation, a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.

Physicians for Social Responsibility notes:


An interesting fact for people living on the US west coast is also included in the UNSCEAR report: o[U]nly about 5% of the directly discharged radiation was deposited within a radius of 80 km from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. The rest was distributed in the Pacific Ocean. 3-D simulations have been carried out for the Pacific basin, showing that within 5–6 years, the emissions would reach the North American coastline, with uncertain consequences for food safety and health of the local population.

The University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center created a graphic showing the projected dispersion of debris from Japan.

Last year, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan:


After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10−4) off Baja California.
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With caution given to the various idealizations (unknown actual oceanic state during release, unknown release area, no biological effects included, see section 3.4), the following conclusions may be drawn. (i) Dilution due to swift horizontal and vertical dispersion in the vicinity of the energetic Kuroshio regime leads to a rapid decrease of radioactivity levels during the first 2 years, with a decline of near-surface peak concentrations to values around 10 Bq m−3 (based on a total input of 10 PBq). The strong lateral dispersion, related to the vigorous eddy fields in the mid-latitude western Pacific, appears significantly under-estimated in the non-eddying (0.5°) model version. (ii) The subsequent pace of dilution is strongly reduced, owing to the eastward advection of the main tracer cloud towards the much less energetic areas of the central and eastern North Pacific. (iii) The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels). (iv) By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific.
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In May, a team of scientists from Spain, Australia and France concluded that the radioactive cesium would look more like this:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2013-Study1.jpg

A team of top Chinese scientists has just published a study in the Science China Earth Sciences journal showing that the radioactive plume crosses the ocean in a nearly straight line toward North America, and that it appears to stay together with little dispersion:


On March 30, 2011, the Japan Central News Agency reported the monitored radioactive pollutions that were 4000 times higher than the standard level. Whether or not these nuclear pollutants will be transported to the Pacific-neighboring countries through oceanic circulations becomes a world-wide concern.
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The time scale of the nuclear pollutants reaching the west coast of America is 3.2 years if it is estimated using the surface drifting buoys and 3.9 years if it is estimated using the nuclear pollutant particulate tracers.
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http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Fuku1.jpg


The half life of cesium-137 is so long that it produces more damage to human. Figure 4 gives the examples of the distribution of the impact strength of Cesium-137 at year 1.5 (panel (a)), year 3.5 (panel (b)), and year 4 (panel (c)).
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It is worth noting that due to the current near the shore cannot be well reconstructed by the global ocean reanalysis, some nuclear pollutant particulate tracers may come to rest in near shore area, which may result in additional uncertainty in the estimation of the impact strength.
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Since the major transport mechanism of nuclear pollutants for the west coast of America is the Kuroshio-extension currents, after four years, the impact strength of Cesium-137 in the west coast area of America is as high as 4%.

Bluefin tuna on the California shore tested positive for radiation from Fukushima, and there are reports of highly radioactive fish in Canada.

The CBS show The Doctors warned that we should be moderate with our fish intake, and children and pregnant women should be especially careful

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/scientists-baffled-by-melting-starfish-common-sense-screams-nuclear-meltdown/#XkFDRwwPGVWlBqds.99