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 of 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.
Leslie Ross on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:30 am
Wow! Listen to the pro nuclear trolls. Get more radiation from standing on the beach than at Fukushima!!!!!!!!! Love to see them that speak such things prove it! If robots are destroyed by the radiation what are the odds for the living? I do find it odd this article showed up and never heard of “peakoil.com”, something is fishy and it is not the Pacific Ocean. It is going to get worse, pray. Love you all, even them trolls. God Bless
Peter Quint on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:42 am
This article states, “It is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary of General Electric …”
This is untrue. TEPCO is a solely owned Japanese enterprise.
The Fukushima reactors were designed and built by General Electric.
The fact that the disaster is not talked about in the media in Japan has to do with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s draconian press policy; they are fearful of being shut down.
Peter Quint on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:42 am
This article states, “It is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary of General Electric …”
This is untrue. TEPCO is a solely owned Japanese enterprise.
The Fukushima reactors were designed and built by General Electric.
The fact that the disaster is not talked about in the media in Japan has to do with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s draconian press policy; they are fearful of being shut down.
R F van Houten on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:43 am
Why are you displaying a picture of the waveheight after the tsunami? It has nothing to do with radiation.
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/honshu20110311/
Nanny Smithe on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:45 am
This is not news to me. I’ve been waiting for someone with enough stones to post an article on the Internet. America’s pansy main stream media won’t do it, because they are bought and paid for. They only print what kind BHO and his cronies want in the news. People are so self involved, and stupid, that they are clueless to the danger sitting before them. This radiation will show its effects in devastating numbers a few more years down the road. Can’t get old enough, fast enough, in this sickening world we live in.
Eric Petersen on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:50 am
Three radionuclides were released. One has a half-life of 2.1 years, another 0.68 years – not a problem. However, cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years. Pre melt down, ocean water at the site had a cesium reading of 2 Bq/m3 (Becquerel’s/cubic meter) that peaked at 50 million Bq/m3 at the site, but earlier this year was 200 Bq/m3. The limit for drinking water is 7,400 Bq/m3, so even at the site things are now below the limit according to Woods Hole data. The highest reading on the US west coast was 10 Bq/m3 – if one swam every day for a year in this water total exposure would be less than a dental x-ray. Unlike other alpha emitters such as polonium, cesium-137 is water soluble and an electrolyte that will flush out of a human body. Not saying the release of these radionuclides into the ocean is a good idea, but now seems no worse than other background radiation issues. (Strontium 90 – bad stuff – is apparently being captured and stored on site, but don’t know how this has been achieved.)
Danny Adams on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:56 am
I,ve known this for years.This is why the government shut off radiation detection equipment. Along the west coast.They knew the seriousness of the situation but stll allow americans to swim and surf in it,wait until cancer spikes along the coast in a few more years.And don,t forget our food supply aso gets contaminated when the wind blows it inland.
Rob King on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:04 am
I agree with Danny Adams. I’ve said it fro years also. We(American people)have forgotten about the whole situation. Out of media out of mind. West Coast and the rest of the world is doomed!!!
Writers Alive on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:12 am
Extinction event.
Riley on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:20 am
HAHAHA, this is fucking hilarious, pro oil, anti anything else fear mongering. As somebody who works on nuclear power plants, i can tell you those 300 and 500% statistics, even if true, which is unlikely, mean absolutely nothing. The human body can recover from approximately 5 REM/yr, and the ambient levels in the water are tiny fractions of mrem. You receive far far more exposure standing out in the sun, getting x-rays, and flying than you will ever receive from swimming in the pacific ocean. Just remember, there is no such thing as a completely objective article, especially when it’s published on a site such as peakoil.com, which obviously has an agenda against anything no oil
Jean Pierre Alexandre on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:34 am
Professor,scientist,Physicist James McKinney warn and talk for years about the total destruction of the entire pacific ocean due to Fukushima.
No one listened,the criminals keeps the Fukushima disaster under the rug of false reality.
They will kill us all.
Refreshthetree on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:34 am
FEARMONGERING!!! Don’t believe the hype, total uninformed cr@p
Eric on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:35 am
Some of the comments are talking about the Japanese press not talking about this. That’s incredibly false. Even five years on, NHK covers the disaster on a daily basis and many times quite extensively.
Also as noted, TEPCO is a government owned entity, not a subsidiary of GE. My goodness, the Internet is a cesspool of misinformation.
dan on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:38 am
just read the name fuk us hima
DEA on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:45 am
“It is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary of 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.”
This “article” lost all credibility with this statement.
Will on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:53 am
Since when are Rads measured in CM?
Centimeters….
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:54 am
A geiger counter would be a good addition to your tool chest. lol
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:00 am
Makati, you discussing with a computer. Most of the “posters” and their “posts” in this thread are computer generated.
ajay on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:19 am
https://www.twst.com/update/ge-general-electric-company-japans-tepco-and-ge-to-launch-digital-transformation-of-utilitys-fleet-of-thermal-powered-stations/
mohamed yassin on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:21 am
There is no difference between transparency, democracy and justice are both alleged
jack on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:25 am
as if the .. BEES DISAPPEARING (without BEES we lose many foods) isn’t bad enough .. we have the pacific ocean being .. POISONED !!! A major cover-up .. so not to have the masses in a .. panic .. also .. the lawsuits against .. GE (builder of the Nuclear Plant). How many people have gotten sick or died from eating this .. Contaminated Seafood ??? PLEASE .. whistle-blowers step forward for the .. Good of humanity !!!
Fuze on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:27 am
Obviously some of this data is misinformation and misapplied, which is often the case with mainstream media also. However, there is also some basic truth here that can’t be denied or minimised through comforting sounding technical expertise, no matter how much appreciated. The Fukushima melt down is having a negative impact on the pacific oceans ecology. To what degree is arguable. The plant is Still leaking! Main stream media here in the US is basically quite on the subject. Some of the numbers published by the Japanese Government and Tepco has been proven erroneous. The intermediate and long term negative affects of this disaster, which has already killed humans and wild life in close proximity, can not be known for certain. Therefore, it should be monitored, studied and transparently shared with the inhabitants of our planet, with the objective of cleaning it up and ensuring that this never happens again. JMHO
Fuze
john r. kanerva on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:30 am
I’m listed as “DECEASED” by the local government anyway so they could escheat my property to MICHIGAN and MARQUETTE COUNTY. Somehow the local government lackeys thus far won’t prosecute the parties who claimed I was DECEASED.
mohamed yassin on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:39 am
There is no difference between transparency, democracy and justice are both alleged
jade on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:39 am
“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.”
What a load of crap. The USA has not banned anyone from talking about it. First of all YOU are talking about it and see??? I’m talking about it.
mehedinteanu on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:42 am
The disaster it wasn’t due to the wave, it was a consequence of the wave which affect the electrical power and flood the cooling pumps. I a such situation the active core in 15-30min heat-up with producing H, during depressurization this in contact with air explode, that happen. In the case of TMI(SUA) the H bubble from cooling circuit it was kept inside and chemicaly absorbed.
This reactor type having a wrong design, better is to close all such reactors, see my works!
Eric Hill on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:42 am
Hmm? Peak Oil webpage talking about the dangers of Fukushima is like the tobacco company talking about the dangers of vaping.
Go nuclear power(-;
Andrew on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:43 am
This is pro natural gas propaganda. I’ve seen this graphic shown many times over as a scare tactic. It’s not even a graph of the “spread of contamination”… it is a wave height diagram after the tsunami. The source of contamination that is not isolable or accessible by human beings is completely false. The water that made its way into the ocean was from faulty tanks built by the lowest bidder. TEPCO has since taken full responsibility for that and decontaminated the area.
Recently an environmental group went to Fukushima with a Geiger counter and showed that the background radiation near the site is lower than some tourist attractions across Europe. The only reason there is an exclusion zone is because the radiation levels are not at a 100% controlled point and exposure levels cannot be guaranteed. Not because they are dangerous.
As for the starfish washing up on the beach in Oregon, how can they prove the radiation caused that and not pollution from some other source? Radiation doesn’t typically cause limbs to fall off as an initial symptom.
This is a ridiculous article and most of the information is either false or presented in a very misleading way.
I hope you don’t like the hiking in the woods in the north east, smoke detectors, bananas, or the sun if you’re that scared of radiation to believe this trash.
Robert Nall on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:49 am
Scary. Maybe we should ask Hillary what to do about this? She is so brilliant. LOL.
David on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:49 am
This article is so choked full of nonsense, conclusions which the data doesn’t support and plain misinformed bs. It looks like a D paper from a 5th grade science class.
I love use of percentages to try and sound ominous. Yes the ocean water started out with basically zero radioactive nuclei. The fact there is now a single non hazardous radioactive nuclei per 100,000 gallons of sea water means absolutely nothing to anyone, anywhere. If a single Oregon starfish or any other marine animal shows any sign of ill effect due to radiation I will personally walk from my home in Arizona to that Oregon beach where I will personally scrape the barnacles off the hull of every ship using only front teeth!
To all of you whom heard the word radiation and started losing your minds let me list just a few of the things which will give you a higher level of exposure than you would receive from swimming in the Pacific ocean for the 24hrs straight.
Getting an X-ray.
Eating a banana.
5 minutes around curing cement. Walking on cement which was laid in the last 6 months. Changing the battery in a smoke detector.
Watching a cathode ray tube TV or computer monitor.
Drinking tap water if your aquifer happens to run through a granite deposit.
Cooking with natural gas. Clocks, watches, or old toys which have glow in the dark numbers or hands. (This one can actually be dangerous depending on how much time you spend and how close you are to them.
Using a cellphone.
Flying in an airplane.
Smoking.
Eating carrots.
Or potatoes.
Or Lima beans.
Or Brazil nuts.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head but I’m sure I only scratched the surface. I don’t know why but even rational people have a totally unwarranted fear of radiation exposure.
One last example. Right now you could go spend a week’s vacation at the city of Chernobyl and all you’d do would be to increase your chance of getting cancer by .003%.
john r. kanerva on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:05 am
After defeating the TREASURER DENOVO with prejudice res judicata (an affirmative defense) our wonderful local FISA court and jag judge (who took an oath to use the COnstitution not the law of the sea) [and I’m not in the military] arranged to launder my land and improvements through the small claims court. So if GE being a defense contractor and not reporting a missile hitting the pentagon on 9/11, through their news station CNBC when Donald Rumsfeld did, to parade magazine, Bill Clinton slipped up and did say a missile hit the pentagon and the film shows it, why be surprised when Satan is the “prince of the power of the air”. So it would be bad business to prosecute Larry Silversteen, W. Bush and Chainy etc. when Norad was ordered to stand down and let the plane launch the missile. Remember Chainey said “Of course the ORDER still stands”, When the kid came and reported the plane approaching according to the secretary of transportation Norman Manetta. Your attorney firm or you better get to work.
However these people are professional killers and contract doing it. Larry Silversteen after all said issuing the ORDER to “Pull it” and we watched the building collapse, he said. Since he confessed, and is not prosecuted, when no planes hit bldg. 7, how can you sue and win? Only through a miracle. Better get saved and receive Jesus Christ now. He can arrange their justice and they will pay someday soon. Christ is your only hope. John 3:3. Unless a man is Born Again, he shall not enter the kingdom of God.
Louis on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:06 am
Maybe they should dismantle the building during the winter in order to drop the temperature sufficiently to allow a robot to enter.
Even if this will put a large amount of radioactivity into the atmosphere for some months; the alternative in doing nothing would be a continuing rise of radiation in the Pacific.
Robin Berry on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:07 am
What isn’t mentioned above is radioactive contamination is the killer here…long term low dosage! The example of the swimmer in the Pacific ocean. While you receive so much of a dose for swimming daily (as posted earlier) it is far worse if radioactive particles gets ingested. Because, you can towel off and go about your business, but you are still being bombarded 24/7 from the inside (probably located in the lungs of digestive track) unless the particles are removed and then, it can be too late.
It’s not the ammount of dose…It’s the location of the source (inside the body) that’s the real concern here.
Bill Zucconi on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:09 am
I am not surprised. We blame the tsunami for this disaster. Thats the same parody as blaming the gun when someone gets shot. We continue to screw up this planet which is due to mans folly. Global heating, the disappearance of the forests, the extinction of animals and insects, the pollution of our oceans, the fouling of our air, nuclear manipulation, etc etc. No matter how many safeguards we take. we can’t manipulate nature. Our demise is definitely coming, its just a matter of when.
Single handly distroying the plant earth on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:13 am
Great! now we just have a big ole ratio active ocean. This is really fucked up. How do you clean the impossible out of an entire ocean? SMH i dont want to live here on this earth anymore. They’re making it uninhibiteable anyways. So whats the fucking point of trying to do so.
Single handedly distroying the plant earth on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:15 am
Great! now we just have a big ole ratio active ocean. This is really fucked up. How do you clean the impossible out of an entire ocean? SMH i dont want to live here on this earth anymore. They’re making it uninhibiteable anyways. So whats the fucking point of trying to do so.
paulo1 on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 8:32 am
I wanted to make a comment on this alarmingly inaccurate article, but apparently my Govt. has banned me from speaking out.
hah hah
PO.com is losing a lot of credibility posting crap articles. Why am I wasting my time, here? I now understand why the Oildrum shut sown.
ghung on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:02 am
Gosh, paulo, someone went to a lot of trouble to shut down peakoil.com as soon as this ‘crap article’ went up. What does that tell us?
The last article that fell victim to this type of attack was “THE DEATH OF THE BAKKEN FIELD HAS BEGUN: Big Trouble For The U.S.”, two weeks ago. Anyway, I’m posting as a guest since I can’t log in.
Stay out of the water, paulo 😉
Ike on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:12 am
Total bunk! This is a diagram of wave height — nothing to do with radioactivity spead b ocean currents. http://tinyurl.com/j4wr46v
Dutchwayne on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:28 am
The problem with this story is there is no context of what has been released and what it means. For example. They cite the release of 300 tons of radioactive material this year, but what was it? From reports it was radioactive water. So how much of the 300 tons of water was actually radioactive materials? Then the reality is dilution. 3oo tons of water is about 600,000 gallons in volume or a couple of large swimming pools. What was the radioactivity of that water? What happens when you mix it in with trillions of tons of water in the Pacific?
If this were a true attempt to educate the public then why not fill in that information?
I was present at Three Mile Island and the press reports were awful. The radiation releases were not nearly as large as reported. Nor was there any context or any facts in the followup years later. The public needs to know but it needs to know the facts in context and not in an hysterical opinion piece with no regard to the truth.
Toni T on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:44 am
If your going to post stats from NOA, at least represent them correctly…it is misleading. Additionally – back it up with some investigative journalism. Hopefully people reading this have enough sense to do research.
Todd Turley on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:53 am
The graphic is a powerful image, but it is a map of wave height following 2011 tsunami, not spread of radiation. There’s nothing behind this hyped story. “300 tons”!!! Please do not admit that you have lowered your political discourse to counting legs on the starfish in Oregon as a substitute for actual radiation measurements. Even snopes has called this out as ‘false.’
Jonathan Smith on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 10:05 am
You’re using the wrong graphic. That is wave height from the tsunami. You are giving misinformation to people like a Corporation. Use real numbers not percentages. You are exaggerating the issue making it invalid. This is a shame. You could have so much potential as a real investigative and impartial site. Fix it.
Roman on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 10:13 am
In a few hundred years mankind will have managed to make this great planet inhabitable for living beings. Why? Greed! Short time profit seems to be more important than a sustainable economy that would keep the planet unpolluted for the next generations.
Duude on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 10:16 am
Who wrote this drivel? Tepco is NOT a subsidiary of GE. The only tie in to GE is the reactor was similar to an old GE designed reactor, but the problem at Fukushima was everything to do with the placement of a nuclear power plant on the coast in a well-documented tsunami zone and then set up their back up diesel power system in the basement. Apparently, in 40 years time, the Japanese never considered where flood water may go if a tsunami occurred. This is mind-boggling!
Walker on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:03 am
This is the sort of article we see being published by eco-terrorists. The radiation one mile from the center of the reactor is twice normal background levels.
Radiation is the breaking down of radioactive elements and this occurs rapidly. So while you can measure radiation it is not and has not been dangerous on the west coast at all.
Starfish losing legs? This is a disease that also occurs in fish tanks totally isolated from the ocean and any radiation whatsoever.
This is nothing more than another eco-terrorism article.
Steve Apicella on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:14 am
If the Pacific Ocean is already contaminated then all other oceans will become contaminated also. Ocean currents will distribute radiation world wide, even fresh water lakes could become contaminated. We could be looking at the cause of extinction of the human race such as an apocalypse. It is time Everyone open there eyes, the whole world needs to know about this and start doing something about it. Please !!
Poik on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:23 am
Hmmm, I wonder how much radioactive material is removed through reverse osmosis? Cross the ocean often for work on ships and am probably getting my fair share of this @@#%. How about those desalination plants that are supposed to save CA?
RedWell on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:29 am
Debunked three years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CBQO6DnBY
Tim H. on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:55 am
The more I read and study about the life of Nikoli Tesla, the more I believe that the USA powers of authority have hidden away what Tesla tried to expose. Particularly that energy was all around,basically free, contamination, radiation free. However knowledge was then and is still being hidden because there is no monetary intake for the “elites” of the world. Yes the world has been an oil based economy for several decades then we discovere nuclear energy but first we used it as a weapon. Granted the economy as it is now would be affected if it were announced that we could have zero point or free energy. It has been made known to the public that we haxe discovered “anti gravity” which is a form of zero point energy. This form of technology is further along than most of us can fathom. It has been stated I understand that every home could have enough energy to power an average size home for the life of the home (or longer) and this enrgy supply would be supplied in a box about the size of a shoe box yet we build reactors that are less than safe, charge for electricity, wait for a man made disaster or a natural disaster to onleash radiation poisining upon the earth that will last for tousands of years with no counter measure to neutralize it. Well, we’ll have to wait no longer. The deed may have alreaady been done. It doesn’t matter in what part of the world a nuclear disaster happens, we will all reap the devastattion. It is beyond my ability of reason to hide a technology already used in military applications that could make this world more economic for individuals and families to live in just for monetary reasons only. The elites use the money from the people to build underground dwellings to hide f4rom the surface of this earth until the trouble “blows over”. Radiation poisoning will reach these elites sooner or later too. No escaping unless they colonize another planet which again I believe ha already began’ Ravings of an overactive imagination? Read, watch leaked informationn. Of course judge for yourself. We are bringing destruction upon ourselves when technology is probably 35 to 50 years ahead of what we are being told. Better yet, read about the studies of Tesla and form your own opinions about the use of FREE ENERGY!