Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Fukushima Radiation Could Reach Pacific Coast by April

Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has not yet reached ocean waters along the Pacific coast, but low levels of radioactive cesium from the stricken Japanese power plant could arrive by April, scientists reported Monday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Get this: While  "Homeland Security" is groping you, they don't have anyone testing the Pacific Ocean waters for Fukushima radiation.

Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Mass, said no federal or international agencies are monitoring ocean waters from Fukushima on this side of the Pacific, so he has organized volunteer monitors at 16 sites along the California and Washington coasts and two in Hawaii to collect seawater in 20-liter specialized plastic containers and ship them by UPS to his Woods Hole laboratory, reports SFC

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  1. They, also, said that there is a Texas-sized island of garbage coming towards Canada so far I haven't heard anything of it and no pictures by anybody. They, also, said there's supposed to be some sort of precipitated radiation coming towards the mid west; turns out that was nothing. Could've sworn all this bad stuff supposed to have hit us by now. Personally, I'm just waiting for the government to use a false disaster relief to gain benefits.

    Speaking of California, ABC nightly news blamed inflation on the droughts in Cali and Brazil (coffee).

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    1. You coulda swore wrong, we learned about it in 2012, yes, and the linked study states the initial increase was anticipated to begin building in 2014 according to these NOAA/GEOMAR folks. Read the documents people...

      Its all like, lemme pick an ideological bucket, versus making one's own judgement on the data? I mean I get there are bad sources, but at least look at the agency & company (TEPCO) docs...

      http://bit.ly/1amOQNA

      Bear in mind they remind the study is for a one-off release, whereas at Fukushima, groundwater core cooling is ongoing
      http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/missionreport041213.pdf

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  2. Calm down everyone:

    http://ourradioactiveocean.org/results.html

    Click on the tab for Hawaii.

    Although I'm sure some on this sight will say that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is simply a "propaganda tool for the government" so just ignore the facts.

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    1. Hey, I'm not freaking out. There's always a lot of scaremongering going on these days

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  3. Thunderf00t has an interesting series on this subject on his youtube channel. Also a lot of other interesting videos about science.

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  4. Yeah, ok. These goofs have been saying "IT'S ALMOST HERE" since it happened. Bunch of fear-mongers and idiots.

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    1. Noaa Geomar chart hasnt changd since it was released, it estimated 2014 as the start, end accumulation 10x on Cali/Baja side vs. Jap. U C C AN Not compute eh?

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  5. actually you would be safer moving nearer the Fukushima plant where the residents are probably receiving a dose of about 3.5 milliSieverts than stay in the US where the normal dose is about 3.1 mSV plus the usual medical scans americans put themselves through.

    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/19/1315684111.full.pdf+html

    It's worth noting here that the Daiichi reactors and cooling pools were not particularly safe as nuclear powerplants go: they were a very old, long outmoded design. They were hit by earthquakes and tsunamis wildly beyond what they were rated to withstand, in the second worst nuclear power disaster that has ever happened anywhere. Shows what could be done with nuclear power if people actually designed them to be as safe as possible with different materials and techniques.

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