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Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast
August 24, 2013

Every bluefin tuna tested in the waters off California has shown to be contaminated with radiation that originated in Fukushima.

Every single one.

Over a year ago, in May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a Stanford University study. Daniel Madigan, a marine ecologist who led the study, was quoted as saying, “The tuna packaged it up (the radiation) and brought it across the world’s largest ocean. We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”

Another member of the study group, Marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York State reported, “We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium 134 and cesium 137.”

That was over a year ago. The fish that were tested had relatively little exposure to the radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean following the nuclear melt-through that occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March of 2011. Since that time, the flow of radioactive contaminants dumping into the ocean has continued unabated. Fish arriving at this juncture have been swimming in contaminants for all of their lives.

Radioactive cesium doesn’t sink to the sea floor, so fish swim through it and ingest it through their gills or by eating organisms that have already ingested it. It is a compound that does occur naturally in nature, however, the levels of cesium found in the tuna in 2012 had levels 3 percent higher than is usual. Measurements for this year haven’t been made available, or at least none that I have been able to find. I went looking for the effects of ingesting cesium. This is what I found:

When contact with radioactive cesium occurs, which is highly unlikely, a person can experience cell damage due to radiation of the cesium particles. Due to this, effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding may occur. When the exposure lasts a long time, people may even lose consciousness. Coma or even death may then follow. How serious the effects are depends upon the resistance of individual persons and the duration of exposure and the concentration a person is exposed to.

The half life of cesium 134 is 2.0652 years. For cesium 137, the half life is 30.17 years.

The Fukushima disaster is an ongoing battle with no signs that humans are gaining the upper hand. The only good news to come out of Japan has later been proven to be false and was nothing more than attempts by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to mislead the public and lull them into a sense of security while the company searched vainly for ways to contain the accident. This incident makes Three Mile Island and Chernobyl pale in comparison. Those were nuclear meltdowns. A nuclear melt-through poses a much more serious problem and is one that modern technology doesn’t have the tools to address. Two and a half years later and the contaminants are still flowing into the ocean and will continue to for the foreseeable future.

The FDA assures us that our food supply is safe, that the levels of radiation found in fish samples are within safe limits for consumption. But one has to question if this is true and, if it is true now, will it remain true? Is this, like the statements issued from TEPCO, another attempt to quell a public backlash in the face of an unprecedented event that, as yet, has no solution and no end in sight?

As for me, fish is off the menu.



See also





http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/radi...ifornia-coast/


http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...a-commits.html

Well folks, this is probably what will kill us all.
I'm gonna go order some MREs and dig my shelter.

For Tepco and Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, toxic water stymies cleanup



An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks. The operator of the nuclear plant said that four tonnes of rainwater that may be contaminated leaked during a transfer of radioactive water between tank holding areas. (Kyodo/via Reuters)

http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/fo...716_story.html

October 21, 2013 by Michael Snyder

Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima - 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried

The map above comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. Fukushima-RadiationThey are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima…

1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores… http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...in-polar-bears

Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses.

The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3162

2. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline… http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed...ons-california

At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.”

3. Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low. Many are blaming Fukushima. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...?service=print

4. Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs. http://www.canada.com/investigating+...535/story.html

5. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/...fic-coast.html

6. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years. http://environmentalresearchweb.org/...cle/news/50176

7. Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201.../#.UZu7-GfYGTc

8. One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/...radiation.html

9. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada… http://readersupportednews.org/news-...hima-radiation

• 73 percent of mackerel tested

• 91 percent of the halibut

• 92 percent of the sardines

• 93 percent of the tuna and eel

• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies

• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

10. Canadian authorities are finding extremely high levels of nuclear radiation in certain fish samples… http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-ra...fish-1.1486514

Some fish samples tested to date have had very high levels of radiation: one sea bass sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/nu...#ixzz2j8j2Faer



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VH3AlPmavDk

500% Radiation Increase from Red-Painted Disposable Eating Utensils?

Seriously?

January 7, 2014[/I]

After independent reports of radiation levels skyrocketing on the beach in California and doubling from snowfall, officials reproduced the results but dismissed any link to Fukushima and suggested “red-painted disposable eating utensils” were the likely cause.

Seriously?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hkyD...layer_embedded

Debris, presumed to be from 2011 Japan tsunami, found in Oregon
By Don Melvin, CNN - Updated 1540 GMT (2240 HKT) April 11, 2015


(CNN)—Those poor fish must have been wondering what the heck was happening to them.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has reported that a section of a fiberglass boat 20 or 30 feet long was spotted off the state's coast this week and has been towed into harbor.

The debris is suspected to be from the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011.

The boat fragment was found this week and towed to Newport, Oregon, where it is moored at a marina. Inside were found -- more than four years and 4,000 miles later, if officials' suspicions are correct -- some specimens of a variety of yellowtail jack fish normally found in Japanese waters.

Biologists with the Oregon Coast Aquarium and Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center inspected the debris while it was still at sea and determined that the ecological threat posed by invasive species was small.

The remnants of the boat will be dried out, inspected further and taken to a landfill.

But for the yellowtail jack fish, the journey is not over. They'll be taken to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Great video at link http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/11/us...und/index.html