Fukushima

I think the BP Deep water Horizon oil spill was a bigger deal, but people act like it's no biggie now to eat the seafood. Probably the same people who don't think the Fukushima meltdown is a big deal. They think it's been absorbed by nature and the residual effects are acceptable. But two years x 300 tonnes daily of highly radioactive water is probably not good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23602362

 

Yeah...no big deal

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-17/radioactive-water-leaking-fukushima-what-we-know

 

Great, we have another ToyCen.

 

Wow, I can't believe ANYONE would cite EliteDaily as a legitimate source of "news." Everyone realizes that site is created by and catered to spoiled idiot rich kids, right?

 

While you say is common sense you have to consider though how large the Pacific is and the atmosphere. 300 tons of radioactive water is quite figuratively a drop in the bucket to the Pacific.

 

There has been no evidence presented to substantiate this claim.

There's about 790 quadrillion (790,000,000,000,000,000) tons of water in the Pacific Ocean.

 

Yes I am. If you are buying fresh it is fairly safe to assume that it is from the gulf, but you should still check the country of origin label which is mandatory for all retailers to put on the tag.

Frozen seafood, you will find a lot of it from the gulf, but you will also see some from Taiwan, Indonesia, and occasionally Japan around here.

Once again, always check the country of origin label, and if there is not one present, ask the retailer. It is their legal obligation to provide that information.

 

Yes. Thank-you! From a trusted news source, quotes from an actual official with knowledge of the situation. That's how you need to verify your info going forward. Does nothing at all to refute the "drop in a bucket" comment, but it's something.

 

Everything on the internet is real.

 

Who needs actual numbers and experts when you have common sense.

 

Alot of sushi restaurants import fish from Japan (for their high quality tunas and etc)

Could pose health risks to those that consume alot of raw fish that is imported from Japan

 

you get the drift

 

Tritium Measurement In Fukushima Bay Highest Ever As TEPCO Admits 40 Trillion Becquerels Have Spilled Into Pacific
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/19/2013 17:22 -0400

Newspaper Nikkei Reality


Over the weekend we posted an in-depth narrative of what may happen in a theoretical worst case scenario in Fukushima, one in which the government continues to do nothing and pretends all is well, and where the end casualties are millions of innocent Japanese (and other) citizens, whose only crime is believing their government. Sadly, with every passing day the theoretical is becoming all too real, and moments ago reality struck again, when the Nikkei newspaper reported that readings of tritium in seawater taken from the bay near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has shown 4700 becquerels per liter. This was the highest tritium level in the measurement history.

RT has more:

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has detected the highest radiation level in seawater collected in the harbor of the crippled nuclear plant in the past 15 days, Nikkei reports.

TEPCO said the highest radiation level was detected near reactor 1. Previous measurements showed tritium levels at 3800 becquerels per liter near reactor 1, and 2600 becquerels per liter near reactor 2. The concentration of tritium in the harbor’s seawater has been continuously rising since May, according to Nikkei.

Also on Monday, a leak of highly contaminated water was discovered from a drain valve of a tank dike located on the premises of the nuclear plant, according to Fukushima’s operator responsible for the clean-up.

The level of radiation at the site was estimated at 100 millisieverts per hour, while the safe level of radiation is 1-13 millisieverts per year, according to ITAR-TASS news agency. The plant’s operator is currently investigating reasons for the leak, TEPCO said in a statement.
We don't know if simply raising the "safety threshold" again will do it this time, but we do know that trillions of becquerels flowing into the Pacific is a lot to quite a lot:

Earlier, Tepco admitted that an estimated 20 to 40 trillion becquerels of tritium may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean since the nuclear disaster.
Tritium, which slowly but surely is making its way to the United States. But one can't blame TEPCO of doing nothing. Oh wait. One can.

Protective barriers installed to prevent the flow of toxic water into the ocean have failed to do so. The level of contaminated water has already risen to 60cm above the barriers, which has been a major cause of the daily leak of toxic substances, TEPCO admitted.

Japan’s Ministry of Industry recently estimated that around 300 tons of contaminated groundwater has been seeping into the Pacific Ocean on a daily basis. TEPCO has promised to reinforce protective shields to keep radioactive leaks at bay.
And if that fails, TEPCO will simply "freeze" the exploded nuclear reactor in an inverted igloo in its latest idiotic MacGuyverian contraption, one which unlike Hollywood, does not have a happy ending when everything goes up, quite literally, in radioactive smoke again.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...st-ever-tepco-admits-40-trillion-becquerels-h

 

Needs to bump this up. This is damn scary.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/04/david-suzuki-fukushima-warning_n_4213061.html

David Suzuki's Fukushima Warning

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-06/fukushima-debris-island-size-texas-near-us-west-coast