Fukushima radiation West Coast USA

Quigley_Sharps · Oct 28, 2013

EPA's RadNet Data | RadNet | US EPA

Radiation Network

HK_User · Oct 28, 2013

Quigley_Sharps said: ↑

EPA's RadNet Data | RadNet | US EPA

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If I read the map correctly, Japan has normal back ground radiation at the spill site.

Gotta wonder about that.

Quigley_Sharps · Oct 28, 2013

HK_User said: ↑

If I read the map correctly, Japan has normal back ground radiation at the spill site.

Gotta wonder about that.
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Yea I saw that too, things that make you go hummm.

ghrit · Oct 28, 2013

Quigley_Sharps said: ↑

Yea I saw that too, things that make you go hummm.
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Hmmm is right. Could it possibly be that the sky is falling in some minds?

HK_User · Oct 28, 2013

ghrit said: ↑

Hmmm is right. Could it possibly be that the sky is falling in some minds?
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Or that the whole area, Northern Pacific Rim, is not being reported!

And where are the open ocean reports?

Yard Dart · Oct 28, 2013

There are so many conflicting reports out there that it makes it difficult to tell what really is going to happen.....

By March of 2014 a strongly diluted plume of ocean water containing radionuclides from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident in Japan will reach the west coast of North America, according to a new study published in the journal Deep-Sea Research 1.
However, the plume, which contains cesium-137, is so diluted it will be harmless, according to the report, which cites the power of two energetic currents off the Japan coast -- the Kuroshio Current and the Kurushio Extension -- as the primary drivers for the accelerated dilution of the radioactive plume.

According to the study's authors, the Japanese currents diluted the cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, so effectively that the plume dropped below the World Health Organization's safety levels within four months of the Fukushima incident, which occurred March 11, 2011 after a crippling earthquake and tsunami combination overcame the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on Japan's northern Pacific coast.
Study co-author Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said that a measurable increase in radioactive material will be observable on the west coast of the United States by the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear incident.
"However, people on those coastlines should not be concerned as the concentration of radioactive material quickly drops below World Health Organization safety levels as soon as it leaves Japanese waters," he said in a news release.
While the the North American Pacific coast may not have much to worry about, Japan's Pacific coast remains another issue.
Recent news reports from Fukushima have indicated that radioactive water continues to leak from the beleaguered nuclear campus and an untold amount is still flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
The news was a blow to Japanese fishermen. While there is no commercial fishing along most of Fukushima's coast, once radionuclides are in the water there is no way to corral them and the Japanese public is highly concerned about food safety. The environmental impacts of Fukushima radiation on marine life along the Japanese coast remain unclear. But in a survey of 170 types of fish caught off the Japan coast, 42 fish species tested were labeled as too radioactive for consumption, while another 15 species showed little or no signs of contamination, according to a report by The Associated Press. Few, if any, of the fish sampled showed detectable levels of cesium, the AP reported.
However, in March of this year a bottom-dwelling fish caught close to the Fukushima plant was found to have levels of cesium 7,400 times the government limit for safe human consumption. The US Environmental Protection Agency has outlined health and environmental impacts of cesium here.
Other than cesium, another concern is strontium and tritium, both of which are toxic. Strontium can accumulate in bones and officials are keen to watch out for it, especially in recent weeks where spikes in strontium levels have been detected around Fukushima, the AP said.
Oceanographer van Sebille said over time "the great majority of the radioactive material will stay in the North Pacific, with very little crossing south of the Equator in the first decade. Eventually over a number of decades, a measurable but otherwise harmless signature of the radiation will spread into other ocean basins, particularly the Indian and South Pacific oceans."
"Australia and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere will see little if any radioactive material in their coastal waters and certainly not at levels to cause concern," van Sebille said. He added that his team has created a website that allows users to track the movement of radiation and other ocean pollution.
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Aquatic Fukushima Radiation Plume to Reach West Coast in 2014 : Environment : Nature World News

DarkLight · Oct 28, 2013

There is nothing to see here, nothing to fear. Continue on in your normal routines citizens...don't make us tell you again.

HK_User · Oct 28, 2013

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There is nothing to see here, nothing to fear. Continue on in your normal routines citizens...don't make us tell you again.
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Business as usual, money talks, poor boys walk.

Quigley_Sharps · Oct 30, 2013

Japan OKs fuel removal from pool at nuke plant - Yahoo News

Quigley_Sharps · Nov 13, 2013

Fukushima: now for the tough part - Yahoo News

natshare · Nov 18, 2013

DarkLight said: ↑

Proof positive that you can prove anything with sufficient variables and a sharp enough pencil...
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Thought they already proved that, with global warming??

Like I told someone, recently. When I was operating nuke plants in the Navy (many, many moons ago), we learned, "dilution is the solution". Even with the recent report of "300 tonnes" of contaminated cooling water flowing into the ocean per day (approximately 75000 gallons), you have to realize that you're putting that water into an ocean that contains, literally, hundreds of TRILLIONS of gallons of water. The negative effect, if any, is going to be localized to the coastal area right by the plant.

To put it in perspective, this would be like you trying to pay off the USA's national debt of seventeen trillion dollars by gifting the IRS with an extra 300 dollars per month. While the effort will be appreciated, its overall effect on the debt will be nil.

Harbin · Nov 18, 2013

So what's the end result of this discussion, "BT no- glow"?

BTPost · Nov 18, 2013

The other thing to consider is that ALL these Isotopes are HEAVY, when compared to Sea Water, and much of it will SINK to the bottom, within the local Coastal Zone. Ground Fish will ingest some of those, but again, this is something that can be tested for, and dealt with in Japan. ...... YMMV.....

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