Don’t worry. I’m sure our government leaders would be honest about any threat to your health. Sorry Charlie. Sunkist wants tuna that glow in the dark.
“Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
California Fish Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
We noted more than a year ago:
The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.
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Of course, fish don’t necessarily stay still, either. For example, the Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:
That might be extreme, but the point is that fish exposed to radiation somewhere out in the ocean might end up in U.S. waters.
And see this.
CNN reports today:
Low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011, researchers reported Monday.
The bluefin spawn off Japan, and many migrate across the Pacific Ocean. Tissue samples taken from 15 bluefin caught in August, five months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, all contained reactor byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels that produced radiation about 3% higher than natural background sources
The Wall Street Journal quotes the studies’ authors:
“The tuna packaged it up and brought it across the world’s largest ocean,” said marine ecologist Daniel Madigan at Stanford University, who led the study team. “We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”
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“We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium-134 and cesium-137,” said marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York state, who was part of the study group.
The bad news is that is is only going to get worse.
As Reuters points out:
Unlike some other compounds, radioactive cesium does not quickly sink to the sea bottom but remains dispersed in the water column, from the surface to the ocean floor.
Fish can swim right through it, ingesting it through their gills, by taking in seawater or by eating organisms that have already taken it in ….
As CNN notes:
Neither [of the scientists who tested the fish] thought they were likely to find cesium at all, they said. And since the fish tested were born about a year before the disaster, “This year’s fish are going to be really interesting,” Madigan said.
“There were fish born around the time of the accident, and those are the ones showing up in California right now,” he said. “Those have been, for the most part, swimming around in those contaminated waters their whole lives.”
In other words, the 15 fish tested were only exposed the radiation for a short time. But bluefin arriving in California now will have been exposed to the Fukushima radiation for much longer.
As KGTV San Diego explains:
The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this summer when researchers planned to repeat the study with a larger number of samples. Bluefin tuna that journeyed last year were exposed to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen.
One of the studies’ authors told the BBC:
The fish that will be arriving around now, and in the coming months, to California waters may be carrying considerably more radioactivity and if so they may possibly be a public health hazard.
Japanese and U.S. officials – of course – are pretending that the amount of radiation found in the bluefin is safe. But the overwhelming scientific consensus is that there is no safe level of radiation … and radiation consumed and taken into the body is much more dangerous than background radiation.
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29th May 2012 at 11:19 am
Colma Rising says:
Nukilar tuna, flesh eating zombies…
Who caught that Game of Thrones? Great episode. Epic.
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29th May 2012 at 11:23 am
AWD says:
“Nukilar tuna, flesh eating zombies…
I’m certain the two are most definitely related. God has several billion useless eaters to dispose of, what better way the radiation and letting them eat each other?
I heard, with all this fresh, new radiation, that Godzilla and Mothra are expected to rip the shit out of Tokyo any day now. The nips need some payback for Fuckishima.
My name’s Colma, I live in California, I eat tuna, and I vote.
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29th May 2012 at 11:36 am
ncognito1959 says:
The way I see it is that this is proof that MORE should have been invested in nuclear power. Those plants like Fukishima are over 40 years old. That place should have been torn down a long time ago and rebuilt.
Nuclear power is the cleanest and most efficient source of power without a doubt.
Japan would have never become the power it did post WW2 without nuclear power.
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29th May 2012 at 12:07 pm
sensetti says:
A day at the beach in Sunny California.
Soon to be posted up and down the West Coast of the US
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29th May 2012 at 12:24 pm
DaveL says:
Yellowfin….Yellowcake. I get so confused.
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29th May 2012 at 12:34 pm
bigargon says:
3% percent higher then background! come on that is not that bad. When i was on the sub, the patrols i slept in the missile compartment and had double of background with no real effects. You get more radiation exposure if you were out in the sun all day.
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29th May 2012 at 1:09 pm
Muck About says:
@bigargon: My son in law was a Chief Fire Control Tech on Fast Attacks and Boomers and spent 25 years living next to that “just a little bit higher than background” radiation.
He was 53 when he died of stomach cancer.
Seventeen others who served aboard the same vessels he did are already dead of one cancer or another. What the death rate is fleet wide from cancer is a very closely guarded secret that the VA will not even talk about. Three FOI suits have been filed to find out and have been stonewalled.
Lots of luck…
MA
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29th May 2012 at 1:27 pm
FRED FLINTSTONE says:
Hey Colma,
That thing on your head has a thing on it’s head!
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29th May 2012 at 1:35 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Muck: Same delaying tactics for the link between Agent Orange and a whole host of cancers. You just can’t dump a bunch of chemicals or radiation on human beings and have any fucking clue what the “safest minimum dose is”.
Of course, now the Russian gov is offering tourism to the Chernobyl area, not shitting you. You have to stay out of certain areas that are still glowing, but still. There are also people who refused to leave and still alive, although arguably any Russians who survived the Czars, the Commies and the Criminal Oligarchy currently ruling Russia are likely unkillable by anything short of a .45 to the brain, heh.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/8363569/Chernobyl-The-toxic-tourist-attraction.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g298058-Chernobyl_Kiev_Oblast-Vacations.html
Houston to Kiev – only $1635!!! Looks like reactor #4 is the #1 attraction…..
Or you can catch the movie:
Haven’t seen a trailer for “The Fukushima Sea Monster Attacks!!” movie yet, but I’m sure it is coming…
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29th May 2012 at 1:56 pm
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Well at least the Japanese should have built up some imunity by now.
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29th May 2012 at 2:41 pm
Colma Rising says:
Hey Fred:
That’s what she said!
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29th May 2012 at 2:49 pm
Bob says:
ncognito1959, I believe you are right. As Admin has posted in the past, there are other, safer elements to use in nuclear reactors, and as you say, the technology has advanced quite a bit. Unfortunately, the reactors of the Fukushima variety should have been decommisssioned by now, and replaced — didn’t happen, too bad, so sad.
And now, an energy-starved Japan will slide down a steeper slope into an economic abyss. Too bad the rest of the world is tethered to the ‘Setting Sun’.
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29th May 2012 at 5:05 pm
Zarathustra says:
No worries. The tanks that hold 40 years worth of spent fuel rods in those earthquake damaged buildings at Fukushima are only 100 feet off the ground.
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29th May 2012 at 5:23 pm
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Tokyo soil so contaminated with radiation it would be considered nuclear waste in US
(NaturalNews) Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster continues to show up at dangerously high levels in the city of Tokyo, which is located roughly 200 miles from the actual disaster site. According to an analysis of five random soil samples recently taken by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, the soil around Tokyo is so contaminated with Fukushima radiation that it would be considered nuclear waste here in the U.S
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035963_Tokyo_radiation_nuclear_waste.html#ixzz1wITuVLeL
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29th May 2012 at 5:41 pm
ZombieDawg says:
You Americans…you’re so pussy-whipped !
Radiation is GOOD for you ok ?
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29th May 2012 at 11:49 pm
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Radioactive Japanese oatmeal discovered in Hong Kong
An oatmeal product, manufactured in and imported from Japan, has been found to contain low levels of radioactivity by food safety authorities in Hong Kong
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29th May 2012 at 2:03 pm
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‘Abnormalities’ in Butterflies Traced to Fukushima Plant
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