Unbelievable. We have petrol infused shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, irritated fish from the pacific and the Irish Sea North Sea area of Europe, all of these suppsoe to be the healthiest of foods for us so we don't get sick, how could those that the top of the HMO's and cancer surgery outlets have ever found such a profitable windfall!
Scott -------- http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Dear Friends, In my last post, I gave figures from TEPCO showing a large increase in radioactive Cesium from one of the wells near Reactor 2, up to 22,000 becquerels/liter. This figure is dwarfed by TEPCO figures from a trench that drains reactors 2-3: "150,000,000,000Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137, 0.1 Sv/h" This report, published by Fukushima Diary, is highly technical, but well worth studying. It is followed by commentary by an expert who has studied radioactivity in Europe for many years. I've excerpted a couple of his paragraphs below the TEPCO figures. All of which goes to show that the damage being done to the Pacific Ocean and its creatures is vastly underreported. We desperately need an independent investigation, from outside Japan, of the whole mess. Please continue to send out this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors Peace, Carol Wolman, MD http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/english-report-about-150000000000bqm3-of-cs-134137-in-reactor3-trench-shaft/#comment-1199251 On 7/12/2013, Fukushima Diary reported "Tepco admitted leakage from reactor2&3 to the trench,"150,000,000,000Bq/m3 of Cs-134/137, 0.1 Sv/h" [URL]" Tepco published the report in English one day after in Japanese. Because this is an important evidence, Fukushima Diary posts it here for reference. http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130711_04-e.pdf Tim Deere-Jones: Marine Radioactivity Consultant July 2013 [email protected] N.B. Input of the search term "Tim Deere-Jones: Marine Radioactivity" to most of the popular search engines will upload links to a number of fully referenced, scientific and technical reports and studies, on the behaviour, fate and doses potential of marine discharged radioactive wastes in UK and European waters, that I have authored for a number of clients. Issue 1: The number of radio-nuclides entering the marine environment of the east coast of Japan. The currently operating marine environmental monitoring regimes in the relevant sea area are focussing on a very small number of radio-nuclides, principally Caesium, Iodine and Strontium which represent less than 10% of the total inventory of nuclides likely to be found in the reactor and cooling ponds of BWR nuclear power station (between 40 and 50) I'm pretty sure that this is happening because of the relatively high costs of radiological analysis of samples. Having been involved in a number of field work campaigns which have involved raising funds in order to pay for radiological analysis I can confirm that the cost of analysis for caesium (for instance) are much lower than those of analysis for plutonium or tritium. In the case of independent and self funding green groups and NGOs with limited resources this is both understandable and acceptable practice. However, in the case of national governments, government funded environmental protection agencies and nuclear industries, under whose watch a disaster of this magnitude has occurred, I can see no justification for refusing to investigate the concentrations of approximately 90% of the radioactive material (all of which are capable of contaminating environmental media and delivering doses of radioactivity to wildlife and human populations) that may have entered the marine environment Issue 2: The nature of the radio-nuclides derived from reactor and cooling pond outputs: Iodine is formed in fuel elements and would only be present in (coolant) discharges as a result of fuel cladding defects and or fuel pin failure. Caesium is a fission product and is also present in coolant as a result of fuel pin cladding defect or failure. The presence of both Iodine 131 and the two isotopes of Cs, demonstrates that fuel pin cladding defect and/or fuel pin failure has occurred. If this is the case then there can be little doubt that a range of other isotopes including actinides/ alpha emitters (probably 4 or 5 isotopes of Pu, 3 of Uranium, also Americium and Curium) will also have been released and entered the marine environment. NB as stated above, one would expect the total inventory of a BWR to consist of 40 to 50 isotopes of various nuclides.... · given the intense use of ad hoc, large volume inputs, of cooling water from a variety of sources, coupled with the inability to control/contain ad hoc cooling waters as a result of the Tsunami damage inflicted on the site infrastructure (drainage, bunding, pumps) it is inevitable that much of that ad hoc coolant will have entered unprotected soils and drainage channels and that there will be an extended time lag before all of it has drained into the sea. · Any future rain fall will wash any surface contamination (eg: undiscovered Pu puddles, deposits on buildings and other surfaces etc) into unprotected soils and drainage channels with similar extended time scales for marine contamination · The evidence to date suggest that the currently identified marine contamination is both the early stage and the tip of the future iceberg · It is inevitable that there will be transport (and subsequent deposition) of long lived in-soluble nuclides into intermediate and far field fine sediment deposits along the east coast of Japan, where significant degrees of re-concentration may be expected and reservoirs or "sinks" of in-soluble radioactivity will be created · It is inevitable that there will be sea to land transfer of both soluble and in-soluble forms of radioactivity, across Pacific coast surf lines and in to the Japanese terrestrial coastal zone, with subsequent potential; for deliveries of dose via dietary and inhalation pathways. Such mechanisms may well deliver doses to areas and populations which have not been in receipt of (Fukushima accident) doses delivered by atmospheric routes... 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