Here’s an article to cheer up all our West Coast readers (as well as those around the rest of the world). As we all know Fuck-You-Shima has vanished from the media – a total news black-out – with no up-dates, no information on what’s being done to clean it up (HA!) or, in general, anything about it. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.!
Well here’s an article that tells it all including how one might begin to be wary of eating anything from the Pacific Ocean and – in thinking ahead – what happens outside the Pacific Ocean if they can’t fix the continuing 300 tons of radioactive waste flowing into the Pacific Ocean daily!!
Friends, we are in much deeper trouble over Fukushima than the media and Governments are letting us know (so we won’t be “frightened). Heavens forbid that the general public of the World begin to get “frightened” over a nuclear accident that could eventually make half the world and its’ largest sea unusable, dangerous, uninhabitable, unable to produce food and we loose the nature resources that the entire Pacific Basin provides the entire bloody World.
It’s time to panic, folks. Not tomorrow – but today.
Muck About
Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse)
Courtesy ZeroHedge via
The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.
Credit – NOAA
What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that caused a meltdown at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next three months, radioactive chemicals, some in even greater quantities than Chernobyl, leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several scientists to be flawed in recent years.
Radioactive Debris from Fukushima approaching North America’s western coast Credit – RT
If that weren’t bad enough, Fukushima continues to leak an astounding 300 tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean every day. It will continue do so indefinitely as the source of the leak cannot be sealed as it is inaccessible to both humans and robots due to extremely high temperatures.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Fukushima has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean in just five years. This could easily be the worst environmental disaster in human history and it is almost never talked about by politicians, establishment scientists, or the news. It is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary partner with General Electric (also known as GE), one of the largest companies in the world, which has considerable control over numerous news corporations and politicians alike. Could this possibly explain the lack of news coverage Fukushima has received in the last five years? There is also evidence that GE knew about the poor condition of the Fukushima reactors for decades and did nothing. This led 1,400 Japanese citizens to sue GE for their role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Even if we can’t see the radiation itself, some parts of North America’s western coast have been feeling the effects for years. Not long after Fukushima, fish in Canada began bleeding from their gills, mouths, and eyeballs. This “disease” has been ignored by the government and has decimated native fish populations, including the North Pacific herring. Elsewhere in Western Canada, independent scientists have measured a 300% increase in the level of radiation. According to them, the amount of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is increasing every year. Why is this being ignored by the mainstream media? It might have something to do with the fact that the US and Canadian governments have banned their citizens from talking about Fukushima so “people don’t panic.”
Credit – AP
Further south in Oregon, USA, starfish began losing legs and then disintegrating entirely when Fukushima radiation arrived there in 2013. Now, they are dying in record amounts, putting the entire oceanic ecosystem in that area at risk. However, government officials say Fukushima is not to blame even though radiation in Oregon tuna tripled after Fukushima. In 2014, radiation on California beaches increased by 500 percent. In response, government officials said that the radiation was coming from a mysterious “unknown” source and was nothing to worry about.
However, Fukushima is having a bigger impact than just the West coast of North America. Scientists are now saying that the Pacific Ocean is already radioactive and is currently at least 5-10 times more radioactive than when the US government dropped numerous nuclear bombs in the Pacific during and after World War II. If we don’t start talking about Fukushima soon, we could all be in for a very unpleasant surprise.
How can a person prepare and defend against this? Geiger counter, pills, lots of lead?
I eat North American (Maine coast) dulse, and other sea veggies rich in iodine. Not a panacea, but it does mitigate uptake of some of the radioactive isotopes. A side bennie is a bump in IQ scores, which offers moments of extreme clarity and cognition as to how fucked the Globalist bankers have left us.
Ohh shi….where have I seen this before? Where o where? Ahh, yes,
. Just so people can charge their electric cars. It is no wonder Musk wants to go to mars. Kill this planet in our quest to go to Mars because …we killed this planet. Looks like VW needs to be re-educated on how to pollute. To do it right AND profit. Damn, I wonder if soylent green goes good with ramen.
Considering what Hildabeast considers her highest accomplishment during her tenure as Secretary of State. Should she be elected I bet she can figure it out. Hah hah ha
I’m going on a limb here and call this BS. What does this image show? The legend gives the unit of whatever substance is color coded in the image as “cm”.
The distribution pattern as shown in the image is totally inconsistent with Pacific Ocean currents. Radiation would have to be able to travel counter current to achieve this distribution.
Now I don’t claim to know what really happens(ed) at F U Shima. What I do know is that we are being fed loads of bullshit from ALL sides.
IIRC, that image shows the predicted earthquake induced increases in wave heights as the tsunami moved across the ocean.
Good call … the “map” image is actually a NOAA tsunami energy plot estimating wave heights at different distances across the Pacific … is there a lack of public info regarding FS? Yes! … does this image illustrate the radiation issues? NO! Is there a map of the diffusion of C-137 across the Pacific? Probably, but it will likely be a very cold day in a very hot place before the public sees it….. sigh….
No one ever seems to be publishing any official long term radiation counts for the years before and after Fukushima.
Just uncomfirmable statements from unofficial sources.
You’d think those readings would dominate any reporting about this, but they don’t.
Surely they’re available.
Meh! Fortunately I never had chirrens so I’m just here for the entertainment and to extract my pound of flesh if the opportunity presents itself.
Hoomans have squandered any and all potential for good we ever had.
Come on SMOD or Giant Meteor! In lieu of that…………
FORWARD!!—–>with The Great Regression! We’ve worked for it! We’ve earned it! We DESERVE it!
I have a question. How in the world can it “leak” 300 tons of “material” every day for 5 years? That would be 1,095,000,000 tons of material? Fukushima doesn’t possess the necessary mass to generate that much material. What the fuck am I missing?
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Smoke Jensen,,,The Jap engineers are pumping 300 tons of sea water into the containment tanks which hold the fuel rods in order to keep them cool. The sea water flows in….and the sea water flows out…..back to the sea….everyday.
They tried everything they could think of to fix this mess, then called in the Russians and then any-fucking-body to help them stop this epic disaster. Nothing has worked. Eventually, the radiation in the Pacific will either mutate or kill all life, while the radiation works it’s way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Pretty amazing, huh? Now you know why you never heard of it. We are truly fucked.
Ah. That makes sense. One my duh moments.
a) groundwater runs through underground melted coriums from the hills to the ocean.
b) water being sprayed on the hot plants leaking through cracked foundations into the ocean.
Sir,
http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/ has a weekly very detailed message. Even scarier than what you reported.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep any time soon, very very disturbing, and sad. Did we really do it this time?
… like I said, we are being fed bullshit from all sides. Like, from this article. A map showing estimated wave heights as proof of radiation contamination? And yet, three Einsteins who thumbed me down for calling the bluff.
This is obviously why there are so many cans of fish on the shelves at COSCO; nobody wants to eat it.
We bought Atlantic tuna and sardines at Costco rather than Pacific caught tuna and sardines. But, I suspect, corporations being as corrupt as they are, they are labeling Pacific tuna and sardines as Atlantic tuna and sardines.
But the corporations will get the government. I suspect, to buy these Frankenstein fish and donate or sell them to third world countries. Our donation to the world humanitarian effort.
Taking your geiger counter to Costco would prove your contention one way or the other. Until then, it is speculation.
Compare the “worldwide vocal concern” over the Chernobyl incident, where the West was oh so keen to politicise this “disaster”, with the complete silence in the Global MSM over the far more serious Fukushima Daichii incident.
As for the oft-repeated mantra that the Chernobyl event would result in a “desertified wasteland” (those were the actual words used by the IAEA in one of their earlier reports), well, let’s see shall we??
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it goes back and back.. enjoy your lack of sleep.
I’m 67 – I don’t know if you guys’s remember the ‘monster movies’ from the late 50’s – giant crabs, insects, etc, from the nuclear testing. Well it would be good if we could get giant crabs and lobsters.
Fuck it. Bend over, hold you ankles, and kiss your ass good bye.
“Good call … the “map” image is actually a NOAA tsunami energy plot estimating wave heights at different distances across the Pacific ….” ——- FranR
Yes, that map and your assessment has been pointed out here before.
F U Shima is a BAD deal ….. BUT, how bad? I don’t believe anybody about anything. Too many fucken liars in the world. I do wonder though …. if it’s an end of world event, why are not thousands upon thousands of Japs dying? Especially near the plant. They aren’t. Although the men’s peckers are glowing in the dark.
Two things are possible.
1. The article describes a real hazardous situation that will be the end of the world. Nothing we can do.
2. The article is alarmist bullshit. Carry on.
The real danger as I see it is the dearth of fresh news coverage of Fukushima. The MSM is doing a great job covering for GE (“GE Mark I reactor) and the nuke industry. But this shit is very radioactively hot and beyond “China Syndrome”. The fuel has escaped containment. It could go critical at any time. It’s not going away anytime soon…maybe 20,000 years. Can’t you just see the Pacific starting to boil in a few hundred years?
If you’re in Tokyo, get the hell out!
Gerold, a Canadian who occasionally comments on TBP has written extensively on Fukushima since 2011. Here is an index of his posts:
https://geroldblog.com/category/nuclear-disaster-japan/
The first one listed with the 2016 update supports Katze im Sack’s position and validates Mark Twain’s quote “It is much easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”
The forth post down “Fukushima Forever – – -” is quite long but covers the subject quite thoroughly.
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Dilution is the solution for pollution. Fukishima is bad but there is no way in hell it kills everything in the pacific nor will it raise the temperature of the ocean appreciably. Not even a measurable rise in temp. Saying it will boil the entire pacific ocean is a lot worse than lack of MSM coverage in my opinion.
300 tons of radioactive waste water sounds like quite a lot, but equates to 9375 cu-ft of water or 21 ft cubed of water per day, 40 ft cubed per week, 65 ft cubed per month, and 150 ft cubed per year. In other words it would take one year at at a rate of 300 tons per day to fill up a pond 150 ft wide x 150 ft long and 150 ft deep. 5 years = 256 ft cubed, 10 years = 325 ft cubed, 25 years = 440 ft cubed, 50 years = 550 ft cubed, and 100 years = 695 ft cubed or 1/400th of a cubic mile. Now the Pacific Ocean contain approximately 250 Billion cubic miles of sea water. Now if the Fukushima Cesium is uniformly distributed evenly throughout the Pacific Ocean accumulating for 100 years would account for only one part radioactive contaminated waste water in 100 Trillion parts of sea water. There doesn’t appear to be enough radioactive material to endanger marine life, other life, is probably much less than the back ground radiation, and would not even register on a Geiger counter.
NICE POST ! Logical and well presented.
Thanks !
SnowieGeorgie
Not too mention that in 100 years the Cs-137 will have undergone over 3 half life decays.
1 unit 30 years later .5 units, 30 years after that .25 units, 30 years after that .125 units.
So after 100 years there will be less than 12.5% of the original Cs-137 remaining.
Time…Distance….Shielding or if all else fails: The solution is through dilution.
So, by what you’re saying, is that we’re good-right? This little incident, though regrettable, is really nothing to worry about-right?
Well alrighty then! The nuclear industry has been wasting money on all those pesky environmental concerns and now it’s time to throw those useless regs aways and enter a profitable new future!
Just let the nuke plants pump the coolant water from the local river or ocean into the containment chamber and the spent fuel rod pools, and then right back again without the normal test to see if the water was contaminated with leaking radiation.. After all, who gives a fuck?
M.I.A. one of the fallacies in your argument is that the radiation will not be distributed evenly throughout the Pacific, there will be hot spots. It is likely there will be enough radiation in these hot spots to concentrate up the food chain (remember mercury?) up to and including us. Boiling oceans? Nope. Kill all marine life? Nope. Increased mutations (i.e. birth defects) and cancers at the higher end of the food chain? Yep.
Brian, one of the fallacies in your argument is that you’re assuming that at some point they will fix things enough so that they can stop dumping into the pacific without causing other catastrophic outcomes.
Annie,
The moment those reactors were scrammed in March of 2011 the production of radioactive fission products ceased. What was there was there. From that point on they begin to decay away according to their requisite half lives. Meaning every unit of time that passes there is less of the radioactive material still around. The most dangerous isotopes are those with very short half lives on the order of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months. Those are now ALL gone and present no danger. Next you have ones who have half lives in years and many decades. Those are still present and do present a danger but not as much as the former. The much longer half lives of say U-235 or Thorium are no more dangerous than sunbathing or polar flights.
Your fallacy Annie is you have no clue about radiological science or heat transfer and fluid flow, yet purport to know how a relatively tiny mass of diminishing radioactive contamination will behave in a yuuuuge mass of many orders of quadrillions of gallons of seawater.
More reading :
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-fukushima-oceans-years.html
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=127297
Oh…and no mention of any radiation tests or ecosystem analyses on the ocean floor, so the 2D map isn’t representative of the 3D ocean now is it..
This post, and much of the resultant wild-eyed commentary, demonstrates the state of science illiteracy in ‘Merika these days.
As I’ve said before.
In October last year I was on my way home from a business trip to New Hampshire . A gentlemen there at the airport had a Clemson sweater vest on and we struck up a conversation about the team since I’m a huge Clemson fan as well.
I asked him what brought him to New Hampshire ? He told me that he was a member of an engineering task force that was making the rounds at every nuclear plant in the USA . Their purpose was to make sure there were multiple safe guards in place to prevent a Chernobyl/ Fukushima accident in case of a natural disaster etc. .
I asked him what he knew about Fukushima ? He told me that it was pumping radioactive water into the ocean and he didn’t think with the knowledge at hand they could stop. He said that they weren’t telling the truth about any of it in regards to the dangers.He said he wouldn’t eat anything from the Pacific ocean and eventually that would include all of the oceans .
I wonder how freeze dried shrimp taste ? I bet they’ll have vegan lobster soon enough.
http://radiationnetwork.com/ an independent network of privately owned Geiger counters across the US, showing the current levels updated every minute. These values are not equalized so there will be some variation based on the variations between the Geiger counters.
I first found this site in the few days after Fukushima but before the windborne fallout hit us. The vast majority of the values were in the teens and twenties. The Colorado mountains have always been significantly higher (50’s and 60’s). The values went up so that there were a significant number of readings into the 50’s. Now things have settled back down some, but there’s still a significant number of readings into the 30’s and 40’s. While these numbers are well below “alert” status the increase in background radiation is alarming to me.
There are at least 100 nuclear reactors in the US. That’s 100 potential disasters up to and possibly surpassing Fukushima waiting to happen. It won’t even take a serious natural disaster. All it will take is a widespread power outage for more than two weeks to start. The nuclear reactors in the US REQUIRE outside power to work and they keep two weeks or less of fuel for their emergency generators on hand.
The single greatest man made environmental disaster in the history of our civilization. The media reports nothing because there is truly no tech in modern day existence to purge or stop the radiation from spreading. The media blackout is so that economic impacts in the fishing industry and beyond are not realized, even though this is at the detriment to the general public as a whole. The storms pulling moisture from the Pacific have brought the radiation inland soaking the farm fields used to produce the crops found at your local grocery store. There is no way to avoid the increased radiation in the environment so the media ignores the dangers because there is no solution to the problem as a whole. The greatest blunder and tragedy of our time. 700 active reactors all over the world producing 50 tons of nuclear waste per year on average. When will the madness stop? Perhaps when the food and environment are so heavily contaminated that you eat to live and die at the same time.
The topic overpopulation is also ignored by our mainstream media. I am from Austria, and i have never read or heard something about this topic in our newspapers, radio, websites or television.
But overpopulation is the reason for so many problems: deforestation, mass extinction of animals, water and air pollution, climate change, crop failures, lack of food, mass migrations, need for genetically modified foods, increased emergence of new epidemics and pandemics, and so on. Our ecological footprint is so high, that we already need more than 1 Earth.
Some politicans in Asia and Africa have already recognized this problem, they try to slow their population’s growth down. But the European politicians ignore this topic. They prefer to care about the aftermath.
If we could solve the overpopulation problem, the previously mentioned problems would be solved automatically. I am ready to help.
Conventional nuclear power is simply bad engineering. Firstly, conventional nuclear fission processes generate some of the most toxic radioactive waste products (e.g. Actinides) known to mankind. Secondly, for a conventional nuclear reactor to operate, it must be run at criticality, namely just prior to the chain reaction running out of control and causing an explosion. If only one of these aspects pertained, it would not be so bad. However, both pertain simultaneously, namely an exploding reactor spreads very highly toxic material everywhere in a local geographical vicinity. Such considerations pertain whether a given reactor is a convention Uranium 235/238 fueled reactor, a MOX-fuelled reactor or a Thorium LFTR reactor (yes, a Thorium LFTR would have highly radiologically “hot” material when in operation (i.e. hard Gamma-ray emitters)).
Referring to Fermi’s dilemma, an animal population evolves until it develops nuclear power and then destroys itself; that is why we do not find intelligent life anywhere else in the universe.
At the moment, there is a total mainstream media news blackout regarding Fukushima, because of interests of military industries and civil nuclear power industries. Governments cannot afford to write-off the investment in nuclear plant, and hence keep them going (often well after their original design lifetime), even despite the huge environmental risk. That is sad reality. As St Paul wrote: “The love of money is the root of many kinds of evil !”. In other words, the World has been sacrificed to the greed for money.