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Meet Mike, The Most Radioactive Fish Ever From Fukushima
Almost two years after the awful nuclear disaster occurred, a fish caught near Fukushima on Friday January 18th had a record-breaking level of radioactive contamination over 2500x the legal limit. TEPCO measured ‘Mike the Murasoi’ at 254,000 becquerels per kilogram (with the limit for edible seafood at 100 becquerels). As Le Monde reports, the previous record (caught on August 21st 2012) was a mere 25,800 becquerels/kg. As further precautions, TEPCO is installing new nets 20km around the Fukushima Daichi site to avoid highly contaminated fish gettig too far and being consumed by other species. While Mike’s family are no doubt distraught (at him being caught and being so radioactive), it appears (somewhat disappointingly) that there is no apparent third eye, lazer fins, legs, or other ‘expected’ ‘blinky’ malformations.
Mike – the slightly crispy looking Marusoi…
Doesn’t look anything like Blinky…
6 Comments on "Meet Mike, The Most Radioactive Fish Ever From Fukushima"
rollin on Sun, 20th Jan 2013 3:44 pm
Of course Mike has no third eye. Although, his grandchildren are starting to grow legs and breath out radioacitve steam.
Kenz300 on Sun, 20th Jan 2013 4:59 pm
Very scary to think that the oceans and the food chain can become contaminated……
The disaster at Fukishima continues today with no end in sight. The clean up will take decades, if ever, to be completed.
The nuclear industry always touts how cheap nuclear energy is to produce but forgets to add in the cost of disaster clean up, dismantling of old facilities and the storage of nuclear waste and the dismantled facilities FOREVER.
This need more international attention from the news media.
It is time to transition to safe, clean alternative forms of energy. Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels made form algae, cellulose and waste are the future and are much safer.
Beery on Sun, 20th Jan 2013 5:36 pm
But wait… I heard nuclear power was perfectly safe.
Obvious on Sun, 20th Jan 2013 7:21 pm
It can be, if people are wiling to demand the correct designs and pay the true costs.
Instead they were sold the scam method that yielded the most fuel for nuclear weapons and the most profit for the nuclear fuel processing companies like GE.
BillT on Mon, 21st Jan 2013 1:22 am
You have not been keeping up with Fukushima if you think it is not affecting the US. Now think about this:
1. 65 nuclear power plants (104 reactors) in the US alone.
2. Most were built BEFORE 1975.
3. There is 65,000 tons of nuclear waste stored at these locations, mostly in the form of spent fuel rods.
4. A large percentage of these reactors were designed by GE.
These will be deadly for 1,000 years. Who is going to monitor them and prevent another Fukushima?
“… As of January 10, 2013 in 31 countries 438 nuclear power plant units with an installed electric net capacity of about 373 GW are in operation and 63 plants with an installed capacity of 61 GW are in 15 countries under construction. …”
And you thought you were safe…lol.
Arthur on Mon, 21st Jan 2013 10:30 am
Scale back on sushi consumption and make way for large scale introduction of solar and wind while industrial society has not yet collapsed.