Fukushima – Not Good

[wakeflood]

So, I remember a thread a year or two back regarding Fukushima and the potential threat of spreading ocean radiation eventually affecting sea life throughout the northern Pacific and expressing concern that the great nursery of food stocks could be at risk. I also recall that those who shared that concern in the thread were called alarmists (I won’t name names but you can do your own search) to use a polite term.

I believe the primary scientific backup for that perspective was that Woods Hole OI was monitoring things and hadn’t expressed concern…yet.

Well, Woods Hole has been releasing reports over the last few months that are, shall we say…concerning? And that’s just the monitoring data.
http://www.whoi.edu/main/topic/fukushima-radiation

There’s also reports of bizarre tumor-laden fish that hadn’t been reported previously.

How do you like your Strontium Bass, madam?

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[JayDee]

<https://vimeo.com/122642785&gt;

@Wakeflood:

How have things changed? I wonder about how TEPCO will handle the long term water treatment/Groundwater contamination, and always have. But this video you linked to, despite the ominous production values, is less than alarming.

<http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/fukushima-higher-levels-offshore&gt;
Dilution is the solution.

I am more worried about climate change denialism and the prospect of President Rump (or any other Republican candidate) than Fukushima on our immediate environment.

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[wakeflood]

I didn’t post any video, JayDee.

This link regarding Strontium spikes is fresh and certainly underscores the inability of TEPCO to provide any real comfort that they can get/keep this under control.

http://enenews.com/alarm-rings-fukushima-plant-new-leak-highly-radioactive-material-detected-strontium-90-levels-spike-alarmingly-video

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[VBD]

Definitely worth watching. But the numbers I see from WHOI are hardly alarming. The Cs 137 from nuclear testing still dwarfs what is trickling out of Fukushima. And the radioactive fallout from the use of fossil fuels dwarfs that. There is more thorium an uranium products falling from the sky from coal than all nuclear events combined. If you are really serious about reducing the radioactive pollution in our environment, eliminating coal is where we need to begin.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

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