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West Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much Fukushima Radiation As Japan
A professor from Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (Michio Aoyama) told Kyodo in April that the West Coast of North America will be hit with around 800 terabecquerels of Cesium- 137 by 2016.
EneNews notes that this is 80% of the cesium-137 deposited in Japan by Fukushima, according to the company which runs Fukushima, Tepco:
(a petabequeral or “PBq” equals 1,000 terabecquerels.)
This is not news for those who have been paying attention. For example, we noted 2 days after the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that the West Coast of North America could be slammed with radiation from Fukushima.
We pointed out the next year that a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation.
The same year, we noted that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna tested in California waters were contaminated with Fukushima radiation.
In 2013, we warned that the West Coast of North America would be hit hard by Fukushima radiation.
And we’ve noted for years that there is no real testing of Fukushima radiation by any government agency.
Indeed, scientists say that the amount of the West Coast of North America could end up exceeding that off the Japanese coast.
What’s the worst case scenario? That the mass die-off of sealife off the West Coast of North America – which may have started only a couple of months after the Fukushima melt-down – is being caused by radiation from Fukushima.
18 Comments on "West Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much Fukushima Radiation As Japan"
paulo1 on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 8:14 am
Alarmist bullshit article.
After Fukishima David Suzuki was interviewed and said we needed to evacuate North America. That is the kind of credible experts that raise this alarm.
I wouldn’t want to eat Veggies or fish from the western Pacific/Japan area, but the Pacific Ocean has a pretty big dilution presence to factor in. The alluded to ‘dead zone’ is caused by heat and nutrient loss….not radiation.
Plantagenet on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 10:53 am
The starfish die-off on the west coast is not caused by radiation. Its is caused by a virus. AND it began BEFORE the TEPCO disaster in Japan.
BobInget on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 11:22 am
Overfishing, plastic waste and irrigation fertilizer run-off is causing the most havoc.
Currently there are many ‘dead zones’,
on the Atlantic side caused by run-off.
I’m less fearful of Fuk then billions of tons of plastic particles making their way into the food chain.
By 2017 Fuk radiation will have dissipated.
By 2027 we will be eating only fresh water farmed tilapia flavored with mercury and human waste.
apneaman on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 11:22 am
No need to panic. The die offs are a consequence of our other pollutants. C’mon people!, let’s get our species killing threats straight.
HARM on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 12:00 pm
“By 2027 we will be eating only fresh water farmed tilapia flavored with mercury and human waste”
Does it taste good with tartar sauce? That’s all most Americans want to know.
chilyb on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 1:45 pm
the solution is dilution.
Surf on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 2:37 pm
Fukushima radiation has reached north america in 2015. Measured radiation was 1 becquerels per cubic meter of water. This level is completely harmless. The drinking water limit is 7,400 becquerels.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/03/16/radioactive-fukushima-waters-arrive-at-west-coast-of-america/
welch on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 4:26 pm
“Alarmist bullshit article.”
Exactly. Who is responsible for posting this crap? It hurts the credibility of the site.
SilentRunning on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 4:57 pm
Yup, if you consumed enough California sea water to reach a dangerous level of Fukushima radiation, you would literally burst first.
Hubbert on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 5:35 pm
Pacific Ocean is just about done. FuckUSshima is just the final insult.
Makati1 on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 8:40 pm
Anyone considering the buildup of radioactivity in the food chain?
Remember the checkerboard and the grain of wheat? One grain on the first day, two on the second and by the last of 64 squares, the cost was 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains on the last day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
Radioactivity builds the same way as it is consumed by more and bigger fish and moves up the chain to that tuna, salmon, king crab legs, etc. on your plate.
BTW: Cesium 137 has a half life of 30 years. Meaning that it will still be there in 100 years at ~10% of what it is now. But then, we will have likely killed off our species long before that date.
Ace on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 9:04 pm
800 Trillion Bq of radioactivity sounds like a huge number, but based on the Laws of Physics and the specific activity for Cs-137, this only works out to 248.9 grams of Cesium. It even says in the Shanghaidaily news article linked to on the ENENews page: “Even if all the 800 tera bq Cs-137 have arrived, the radiation levels will stay at relatively low level that aren’t expected to harm human health,” said Aoyama.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=800+TBq%2Fcesium-137+specific+activity
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=279491
enenews is a blog dressed up as a news page run by one anonymous concerned citizen. It says so in the about section of the enenews facebook page (look at the long description). This concerned citizen fabricates sensationalized headlines by taking quotes and other information out of context from real news and other media found on the internet. Click on any of the tabloid style headlines on the main enenews page, and it does not lead to a news source with the same headline. Instead it goes to another enenews page with highlighting information that tells a false narrative from the information linked to on this page. For the most part the real news and other media in the links are good sources of information, but you need to click on the articles and read them for yourself.
Makati1 on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 10:09 pm
Ace, do you understand the food chain? It appears you do not. Your own body is collecting things like lead and other heavy metals and, if you get enough of them, they will kill you, or at least make your brain stupid. Ditto for radioactive substances. Just because it take a few years to feel the effects does not mean they are not killing you.
SilentRunning on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 10:52 pm
Makati1, not all elements bio-accumulate. Sodium does not – and neither does Cesium (which acts as similarly to Sodium in your body).
Cesium has a *biological* half-life of about a month.
Strontium is worse – it does accumulate in your bones (it acts like Calcium). Fortunately, Strontium is far less mobile than Cesium.
SilentRunning on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 10:56 pm
All this scare talk about Fukushima has literally been going on for years. Let me know when the hyper-radioactive water hits the west coast and makes all of California glow in the dark.
The huge problem that Fukushima shows is that nuclear energy has significant and extremely costly safety problems. In the future, when resources are NOT there to contain them, then the real nightmare scenarios will play out.
SilentRunning on Wed, 10th Jun 2015 11:03 pm
BTW: Thanks Fukushima crew for STILL using the same graphic that shows that half of us in North America died back in 2011! I must be so acutely poisoned by radioisotopes that I completely forgot about the Great Cataclysm of 2011!
Kenz300 on Thu, 11th Jun 2015 12:36 pm
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous.
It is time to begin shutting down active nuclear power plants and stop building any more new ones.
The damage to the environment must be stopped.
Hugh Culliton on Thu, 11th Jun 2015 3:27 pm
Palo1: Suzuki, speaking hyperbolically to make a point at a U of A event, actually said; “…I have seen a paper saying that if, in fact, the fourth plant goes in an earthquake … it’s ‘bye-bye Japan’ and everybody on the West Coast of North America should evacuate…” Several weeks later when asked about it by The Province, he walked it back a bit. He is correct in noting that any such Fukushima-level event, is far from harmless, and effects the entire planet.