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Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown
Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans.
Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reactors have sprayed immeasurable amounts of radioactive material into the air, most of which settled into the Pacific Ocean. A study by the American Geophysical Union has found that radiation levels from Alaska to California have increased and continue to increase since they were last taken.
Naturalnews.com reports:
The highest levels yet of radiation from the disaster were found in a sample taken 2,500 kilometers (approx. 1,550 miles) west of San Francisco.
“Safe” according to whom?
Lead researcher Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was one of the first people to begin monitoring Fukushima radiation in the Pacific Ocean, with his first samples taken three months after the disaster started. In 2014, he launched a citizen monitoring effort – Our Radioactive Ocean – to help collect more data on ocean-borne radioactivity.
The researchers track Fukushima radiation by focusing on the isotope Cesium-134, which has a half-life of only two years. All Cesium-134 in the ocean likely comes from the Fukushima disaster. In contrast, Cesium-137 – also released in huge quantities from Fukushima – has a half-life of 30 years, and persists in the ocean, not just from Fukushima, but also from nuclear tests conducted as far back as the 1950s.
The most recent study added 110 new Cesium-134 samples to the ongoing studies. These samples were an average of 11 Becquerels per cubic meter of sea water, a level 50 percent higher than other samples taken so far.
Instead of presenting the findings as an alarming sign of growing radiation, however, Buesseler emphasizes that the Cesium-134 levels detected are still 500 times lower than the drinking water limits set by the U.S. government. The news site The Big Wobble questions whether Buesseler and Woods Hole’s heavy financial reliance on the U.S. government – Woods Hole has received nearly $8 million in research funding from several government agencies – plays any role in this emphasis.
Situation still worsening
The reality, however, is that radiation along the West Coast is expected to keep getting worse. According to a 2013 study by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, the oceanic radiation plume released by Fukushima is likely to hit the North American West Coast in force in 2017, with levels peaking in 2018. Most of the radioactive material from the disaster is likely to stay concentrated on the western coast through at least 2026.
According to professor Michio Aoyama of Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, the amount of radiation from Fukushima that has now reached North America is probably nearly as much as was spread over Japan during the initial disaster.
The recent Woods Hole study also confirmed that radioactive material is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima plant. Cesium-134 levels off the Japanese coast are between 10 and 100 times higher than those detected off the coast of California.
Without directly challenging the U.S. government’s “safe” radiation limits, Buesseler obliquely references the fact that any radioactive contamination of the ocean is cause for concern.
“Despite the fact that the levels of contamination off our shores remain well below government-established safety limits for human health or to marine life,” he said, “the changing values underscore the need to more closely monitor contamination levels across the Pacific.”
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Don’t worry though Olympians, everything will be fine in a few billion or so years.
86 Comments on "Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown"
Eagle on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 7:24 am
Do you think they will tell you the truth that you have been irradiated across the US, not just West Coast, since 2011? I have a Geiger Counter and have seen it even in Texas. http://netc.com I do not buy produce from California. R3emember when our president flew to Chile the week that the airborne radiation was hitting our shores in the US? He took his entire family with him as the radiation enveloped Washington.
makati1 on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 7:44 am
Eagle, you are correct. There is no way that the US government is going to tell Americans how bad it is until they start dropping dead in huge numbers and then it will be blamed on something else. Japan is the Empires only real support in Asia and to blame them would only open a bigger can of worms. Or so it seems to me.
GregT on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 8:32 am
If we don’t manage to cause NTHE, those who survive will face extremely dire circumstances in a world that will little resemble what we are now accustomed to. The biggest hurdle isn’t any one of the myriad of events that we have already triggered, it will be the effects of all of them combined on biodiversity. The current state of the world’s oceans alone, should be of immediate concern. We will not survive as a species if/when we kill off the oceans.
onlooker on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 8:47 am
True if nothing else we are setting up for such a completely denuded, barren and lifeless planet that surviving will be problematic in the extreme. It can never be overstated to say, we humanity have made what is more and more looking like a fatal error to ignore our impact on our only planet Earth. Reality is interesting with fantasy ala the movie Soylent Green.
shortonoil on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 8:59 am
“JuanP, I think it will be the ‘irregular’ weather that will kill farming, as you said.”
Depleted soils, erosion, insect infestations, and lack of water will kill farming. They will all be intensified by 1000% once the oil age ends. At $34.50/ barrel the industry can no longer replace its reserves, and once its reserves are gone the industry disappears, The age of oil will go along with it! The energy that is provided by petroleum is what powers our modern, integrated, global industrial system. Without it there is no system. There are no insecticides, there is no easily pumped water, there are no hydrocarbon based fertilizers to dump on dried out, wind eroded, nutrient deficient fields. Civilization, as we have come to know it, and all of its accouterments, including nuclear power disappear with it.
The end of oil will come long before global warming, pollution, or unsolicited war exterminates humanity. Humanity’s ability to continue contributing to any of those annoyances will fall to zero. The end of the petroleum industry will be the end of oil, and will leave 7 billion, hunger, homeless, destitute, and desperate people. Over the next few years we will be able to watch first hand as one producer after another succumbs to the inevitable impact of depletion. What will happen tomorrow is already written on the reports that we are being handed today!
http://www.thehillsgroup.org/
GregT on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:04 am
“we humanity have made what is more and more looking like a fatal error to ignore our impact on our only planet Earth”
We have been repeatedly warned of the consequences of continuing to pursue ‘economic growth’ at the expense of environmental health. We haven’t listened, and we are still not listening.
Dr. David Suzuki summed it up rather succinctly in 2012 when he said;
Environmentalism has failed
“in 1992, the largest gathering of heads of state in history met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was meant to signal that economic activity could not proceed without considering ecological consequences. But, aided by recessions, popped financial bubbles, and tens of millions of dollars from corporations and wealthy neoconservatives to support a cacophony of denial from rightwing pundits and think tanks, environmental protection came to be portrayed as an impediment to economic expansion.”
“This emphasis of economy over environment, and indeed, the separation of the two, comes as humanity is undergoing dramatic changes. During the 20th century, our numbers increased fourfold to six billion (now up to seven billion), we moved from rural areas to cities, developed virtually all of the technology we take for granted today, and our consumptive appetite, fed by a global economy, exploded. We have become a new force that is altering the physical, chemical, and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale.”
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2012/05/the-fundamental-failure-of-environmentalism/
Rodster on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:43 am
“GregT on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:04 am
We have been repeatedly warned of the consequences of continuing to pursue ‘economic growth’ at the expense of environmental health. We haven’t listened, and we are still not listening.”
And we won’t stop until it all implodes because of Globalization. The eCONomy MUST continue to grow or it all collapses. And we are so interdependent on what we have built that it would be impossible to turn the switch off and revert to the “Little House On The Prairie”.
I just pause and smh at the way we have been boxed in and herded into a horrific economic system where the “Just in Time delivery system” makes us all dependent on international and transnational transportation.
So the choice becomes if we stop growing and the system collapses how do we deal with feeding billions who rely on food and agriculture being transported around the world.
I still chuckle and smh when I see citrus being sold in Florida supermarkets from different parts of the world.
Dirk on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:48 am
Naive stupid world. I knew it was far worse than what was said. Bye bye half of the sea life as we know it. But who am I to say that…………
GregT on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:50 am
A predicament Rodster, with no comfortable solution. The longer that we continue to pursue economic growth, the more dire the outcome will be. It doesn’t get any simpler.
onlooker on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:53 am
I have always wondered why a salad has to come from thousands of miles away. Bizarre.
mboswell on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 10:00 am
now the Chinese are going to build nuclear power plants to satisfy the new paris accord. my first hand experience with their manufacturing capabilities this scares me to death.
GregT on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 10:13 am
“my first hand experience with their manufacturing capabilities this scares me to death.”
The Chinese manufacture to whatever price point and profit margins western corporations specify. Cheap products are ordered to be cheap.
Tamara on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 10:30 am
The government has known that we are getting nuked all along.
Here is an article published by The Open Journal of Pediatrics http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojped.2013.31001
It clearly states that extreme high levels of radiation hit California after the initial explosion with startling results to infants born after that time.
It’s all in there….
Dredd on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 10:43 am
“Safe” is just another word for “the majority of the public will have to believe us” (Questionable “Scientific” Papers – 3).
peakyeast on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:25 am
I also have a Geiger counter and has had it for years.
And when Chernobyl exploded I registered the cloud passing over Denmark.
The authorities didnt tell anything until AFTER it had passed. How convenient…
Their excuse for not telling people: We didnt know where it came from.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MATTER?
People wants to know if there is a frigging radioactive cloud is over their head – they dont fucking care where it came from when its right over their heads that is for later after the thing had passed.
IOW: The authorities will ALWAYS find some lousy excuse for not scaring people or giving people the chance to save themselves. I guess it is TOO EXPENSIVE to care about the population right to know what the fuck is happening.
penury on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:35 am
“I guess it is TOO EXPENSIVE to care about the population right to know what the fuck is happening.”The only expense involved is the cost to the political power of the current PTB and the appointment of new bosses.
Rodster on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:44 am
“mboswell on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 10:00 am
now the Chinese are going to build nuclear power plants to satisfy the new paris accord.”
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According to an article I came across they want to “fast track” 100-200 nuclear power plants. Think Chinese drywall and Fukushima as each of those 100-200 NPP, start operation !
Look at what it takes to properly decommission a NPP. The NY nuclear power plant is supposedly beyond it’s lifetime usage as well as the one in Florida but they continue to operate.
Rodster on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:45 am
According to an article I came across they want to “fast track” 100-200 nuclear power plants, IN THE NEXT DECADE.
onlooker on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:48 am
Here is a good link to a composite researched from various sources findings on Chernobyl published in 2011
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/HEofC25yrsAC.html
Thus is the terrible legacy of nuclear-radioactive contamination.
peakyeast on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 12:15 pm
@penury: Imagine if a percentage of the population decides to stay home for a couple of days – to stay indoors until the cloud has passed.
That is the kind of expense they dont want to happen – EVER.
peakyeast on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 12:16 pm
Here in Denmark they even count the minutes people are going to work.
If we work 12 more minutes (all of the population) all our economic woes were over said the government..
Then imagine what 12 minutes less will do to the economy.
Apneaman on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 12:31 pm
I never hear of anyone whose home is near Chernobyl or Fukushima or anywhere a nuclear power plant or waste facility is having issues come out calling whistleblowers conspiracy freaks. It’s always white english speaking men, usually trained up in engineering and such, who live far far away who are the most certain, 100% certain that it’s just a bunch of alarmists. There has to be some serious trust of authority there and a certainty that everything that they teach regarding nuclear safety and ones education is 100% truth. Of course no one would would ever lie about this shit since there is massive amounts of money and military might involved in the control of the technology. No one ever lies for money power and control. It’s not like the government would lie or do something guinea pig the citizens – like intentionally infect them with syphilis or a hundred other well documented example. The nuclear industry is all about the caring.
Toxic link: the WHO and the IAEA
A 50-year-old agreement with the IAEA has effectively gagged the WHO from telling the truth about the health risks of radiation
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/28/who-nuclear-power-chernobyl
onlooker on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 12:42 pm
Wonderful synthesis as always Apeman.
Steven on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 2:18 pm
You get more radioactive uranium in your drinking water than the Fukushima radiation off the West Coast in the ocean. While there is no known “safe” dose of radiation (it is all a matter of probabilities afterall), you are much more likely to get cancer from 1000’s of other everyday items than you would from Fukushima radiation leaking into the ocean.
onlooker on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 2:43 pm
uranium is not the only particles emitted from a meltdown and leakage of nuclear material. Their are much more lethal particles and isotopes escaping. And they are NOT found in any drinking water I know of.
makati1 on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 8:42 pm
WE evolved to handle background radiation, but not the stuff we are exposed to every time we fly in an airliner, get an x-ray, or swim in the ocean. Not to mention that settling out all over the world from the meltdowns/bombs/ and just plain nuclear production and handling.
Cancers are increasing. And who knows what is happening genetically. We are all ingesting just a little bit more everyday from one source or another.
Be The Change on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 9:55 pm
Make the Change Happen with your Positive Energy.
As Walter Russell said when people realize what Light really is it will change
Atomic Suicide by Walter & Lao Russell
Walter Russell told us verbally and in his writings that Uranium and other 9th Octave radioactive materials need to stay deep in the ground as they are very dangerous.
Be the change you want to see.
Support Cosmic Polymath Technology from; Viktor Shauberger, Nikola Tesla,Edward Leedskalnin, Walter Russell, Leonardo Da Vinci, Wilhelm Reich
Buy local
Support local farmers.
Support Natural & Vegan
Juice is good for you when it is fresh 48 hours.
Walk and Bicycle to work & store.
Or take bus or metro instead of driving a petrol vehicle.
Support Clean Transportation.
Use a Water Filter instead of buying bottled water.
Support Clean Water
Use water, vinegar, or natural products to clean
You want a change make it happen : )
Debbie on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:44 pm
I don’t know where else to buy my produce (as well as dairy and eggs) from but I do try to buy local and for me that means Northern Nevada. It seems that most of our produce IS from California as well as other parts up the West Coast on up through Washington but this nuclear waste being released into the atmosphere means we are all being exposed and it is troubling.
Also, just wanted to share this, someone on youtube shared this Polish guy’s site with photos of his visit to the Fukushima area that really shows the massive problem of contaminated waste http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/fukuszima/
If anyone can translate what the Polish guy wrote it would really be nice so that viewers can know what he has to say.
makati1 on Mon, 21st Dec 2015 11:59 pm
Debbie, it would be difficult to not eat Cali veggies and fruits. Canned does not tell you origin. Fresh doesn’t either. But if you are eating out of season stuff, odds are it come from Cali.
Here in the Ps, veggies come from Australia, New Zealand or Mindanao most of the time or are home grown locally. I do not buy canned stuff from the US. Between the insecticide pollution and GMO zombie stuff, I do not think it is safe. And, it is too expensive. Often twice the cost of stuff, even from Europe. Greedy Americans.
SilentRunning on Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 7:57 am
I guess what I don’t understand is why there aren’t more deaths in/around Japan from this radiation. If the tiny amounts reported in the Pacific next to the west coast of the USA are so very deadly, then why isn’t the ocean around Japan a dead zone where nothing lives? Why aren’t all the Japanese people dead and rotting in the streets?
I agree with the environmental media that TEPCO lied and under-reported the amounts of radiation. I agree that Fukushima points out the menace of nuclear power. What I don’t agree with is hysterical reactions saying that Fukushima by itself will kill all of us. It won’t.
ghung on Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 9:26 am
Gosh, SR, I’m sure you know that radiation exposure can have a whole range of effects, not necessarily including death, and not necessarily immediately evident. But keep the binary thinking going. You have plenty of company.
Apneaman on Tue, 22nd Dec 2015 9:58 am
silent, ok not everything died, but I think I’ll take a pass on the Japanese seafood buffet. Feel free to have my portion.
Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima
https://www.rt.com/news/fukushima-fish-cesium-radiation-548/
SilentRunning on Thu, 24th Dec 2015 2:03 am
ghung – yes I know that cancer can take a long time to develop – but can’t we agree that the effects in Japan should be a lot more pronounced than off the west coast of N. America? I mean – everybody agrees that the doseages are MUCH higher in Japan than in – say – Seattle WA. I would think they would be hundreds or thousands of times higher.
Apneaman on Thu, 24th Dec 2015 2:16 am
Fukushima’s Radiation Goes Largely Uncovered: A Clear and Present Danger to the US
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/fukushima-s-radiation-goes-largely-uncovered-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-us/19658-fukushima-s-radiation-goes-largely-uncovered-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-us
makati1 on Thu, 24th Dec 2015 3:46 am
Silent. Kinda depends on which way the wind is blowing doesn’t it? Most of the nuke tests in the South Pacific were in places where the winds blow from east to west most of the time, spreading that radiation over S.E.Asia for the most part. However, Japan is in an area where the winds blow East towards the US, for the most part. Ditto for ocean currents.
There is already a marked increase in cancers in the children that lived around Fukushima. And likely will increase in the next few years. If you eat anything from the Pacific Ocean, (tuna, salmon, Alaska crabs, etc.) you are the final resting place for all of the radiation absorbed by the food chain from the tiny plankton to your plate.
SilentRunning on Thu, 24th Dec 2015 11:15 am
makati1 – but it isn’t true that I will be the “final resting place” for all that radiation – at least from Cs-137. Everything I’ve read shows that Cs-137 does NOT bio-accumulate – instead it passes through your body with a biological half life of 70 days. How do we know that? You can actually measure the stuff coming out in your urine. Just like Potassium-40.
This has already happened before from all the nuke testing in the 50s & 60s.
I agree – I would prefer that there was NO Cs-137 in the environment anywhere. In high enough doses it WILL give you cancer, radiation sickness and death.