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Nuclear Tuna and Water reach North America from Japan

Dameon

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http://www.thecanadiandaily.ca/2013...n-in-the-ecosystem-north-american-west-coast/

Around 300 tons of highly radioactive water has been flooding into the pacific ocean on a daily basis for the last 2 years… Tepco only admitted recently. I am still trying to make sense of that information, the blatant cover up and the almost suicidal lack of action on the part of the Japanese government. – Gough Lewis

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 …

Long story short, we're possibly all irradiated and it may just get worse.
 
Dameon said:
Long story short, we're possibly all irradiated and it may just get worse.

Yeah, that sucks. You have to ingest quite a lot of cesium to be at high risk, but still, I'm not eating any of that tuna. With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill too, low fish stocks and other things it might be best to avoid seafood altogether.
 
Everyone should do due diligence to this story, the amount of fear mongering you can expect from anti-nuclear sources is immense.

The statements that say '300 per day' are being conflicted by statements that say '300 total'.

There are folks that say the total radiation from the water is equal to that of the background radiation and it gets dispersed long before it reaches our shores, other people are saying they're catching radioactive fish that are bleeding from the eyes, mouth and gills.

It is your responsibility to research this and come to your own conclusions.

My concerns aren't for the nuclear fallout in the ocean (As it seems apparent that the amount of radiation we have after it dilutes through the ocean's currents isn't as scarey as the fear that the fish who are spawning across the ocean are irradiated.
 
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