Fukushima apocalypse...

[surfergirl]

That is heartbreaking. Man I cannot wait til the day Jehovah stops man from ruining the planet.

I have a very good friend she is from Japan & parents & family are still in Japan. Sure is worrying for them.

[Jewelz]

This info is interesting as well...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24369244

[Allabord4Jah]

From The Independent News/Oct 3rd, 2013

 

 

Another radioactive leak discovered at Fukushima nuclear plant as storage tank overflows allowing toxic water to flow into Pacific

Leak causes yet more problems for under fire Tokyo Electric Power Company

 

Another radioactive leak has been discovered at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant after a storage tank overflowed and allowed toxic water to flow into the Pacific Ocean.  Workers for the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) discovered the radioactive leak during a routine patrol of the site, with the under fire company estimating that around 430 litres of the water had already escaped the concrete barrier surrounding the storage tank.  Tepco official Masayuki Ono said that they could not deny that the contaminated water, which contains highly radioactive doses of strontium, may have flowed down a drain that leads directly into the Pacific Ocean. 

 

The amount of water involved in the latest leak is tiny compared to the untold thousands of tons of radioactive water that have leaked, much of it into the Pacific Ocean, since a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant in 2011.   But the error is one of many that Tepco has made as it struggles to manage a seemingly endless, tainted flow of water on the site.  The tank in question is one of about 1,000 erected on the grounds around the plant to hold water used to cool the melted nuclear fuel in the broken reactors. 

 

TEPCO said the water then spilled out of a concrete barrier surrounding the tank and believed that most of it reached the sea via a ditch next to the river. The company later said, however, seawater samples taken just off the plant's coast remained below detectable levels.  The new leak is sure to add to public concern and criticism of TEPCO and the government for their handling of the nuclear crisis. In August, the utility reported a 300-ton leak from another storage tank, one of a string of leaks in recent months.  That came after the utility and the government acknowledged that contaminated groundwater was seeping into ocean at a rate of 300 tons a day for some time. 

 

TEPCO spokesman Masayuki Ono told an urgent news conference that the overflow occurred at a 450-ton tank without a water gauge and standing on an unlevel ground, slightly tilting toward the sea.  The tank was already nearly full, but workers pumped in more contaminated water into it to maximize capacity as the plant was facing a serious storage crunch. Recent rainstorms that flooded tank yards and the subsequent need to pump up and store contaminated rainwater also added to the shortage, he said. “We could have, and should have, prevented the overflow,” he said.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said efforts to stop leaks were still insufficient, but defended TEPCO for detecting the problem more quickly than the last time. 

 

TEPCO said the tank and four others in the same area were already filled up to 98 percent of its designed capacity, as in many other tanks elsewhere on the plant.  Tetsuro Tsutsui, an engineer and expert of industrial tanks, said the latest problem was emblematic of how TEPCO runs the precarious plant. He said it was “unthinkable” to fill tanks up to the top, or build them on a tilted ground without building a level foundation.

 

“That's only common sense,” Tsutsui, also a member of a citizens group of experts proposing safety measures for the plant. “But that seems to be the routine at the Fukushima Dai-ichi. I must say these are not accidents. There must be a systematic problem in the way things are run over there.”

Experts have faulted TEPCO for sloppiness in its handling of the water management, including insufficient tank inspection records, lack of water gauges, as well as connecting hoses lying directly on the grass-covered ground. Until recently, only one worker was assigned to 500 tanks in a two-hour patrol. 

 

In recent meetings, regulators criticized TEPCO for even lacking basic skills to properly measure radioactivity in contaminated areas, and taking too long to find causes in case of problems. They also have criticized the one-foot (30-centimeter) high protective barriers around the tanks as being too low.

 

So far, the leaks have occurred in easy-to-assemble rubber-seamed tanks that TEPCO had built quickly to accommodate swelling amounts of contaminated water, and the plant has promised to replace them with more durable welded tanks, which take more time and cost more to build. TEPCO has been criticized for building shoddy tanks to cut cost. 

 

“As far as TEPCO people on our contaminated water and sea monitoring panels are concerned, they seem to lack even the most basic knowledge about radiation,” said a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner Kayoko Nakamura, a radiologist.  “I really think they should acquire adequate expertise and commitment needed for the job,” she said.

 

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When you just think that things can't get any worse, bang, this pops out!  Yet, more to come. This is why Jehovah is forewarning us through the hands of the few, that the there will never be a Great Tribulation such as the world has never seen, and will never see it again!

 

*the best anyone of us can do is PRAY for our brothers over there, and Jehovah, cause he's the only one that can halt this insanity in Japan right now.  The world eye's are focused on Iran, and U.S.A.'S Government shut down, the stock markets and the terrorists.  They have no idea what's on the pacific side of the world! "

[Jordan]

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania

 

Dangerous Levels of Radioactivity Found at a Fracking Waste Site in Pennsylvania

A new study found elevated levels of chloride, bromide, and other chemicals in Marcellus Shale wastewater.

Charles Mostoller/ZUMA

This story first appeared on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Scientists have for the first time found dangerous levels of radioactivity and salinity at a shale gas waste disposal site that could contaminate drinking water. If the United Kingdom follows in the steps of the US "shale gas revolution," it should impose regulations to stop such radioactive buildup, they said.

 

 

The Duke University study, published on Wednesday, examined the water discharged from Josephine Brine Treatment Facility into Blacklick Creek, which feeds into a water source for western Pennsylvania cities, including Pittsburgh. Scientists took samples upstream and downstream from the treatment facility over a two-year period, with the last sample taken in June this year.

 

 

Elevated levels of chloride and bromide, combined with strontium, radium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotopic compositions, are present in the Marcellus Shale wastewater, the study found.

 

 

Radioactive brine is naturally occurring in shale rock and contaminates wastewater during hydraulic fracturing—known as fracking. Sometimes that "flowback" water is reinjected into rock deep underground, a practice that can cause seismic disturbances, but often it is treated before being discharged into watercourses.

 

 

Radium levels in samples collected at the facility were 200 times greater than samples taken upstream. Such elevated levels of radioactivity are above regulated levels and would normally be seen at licensed radioactive disposal facilities, according to the scientists at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

 

 

Hundreds of disposal sites for wastewater could be similarly affected, said Professor Avner Vengosh, one of the authors of the study published in Environmental Science & Technology, a peer-reviewed journal.

 

 

"If people don't live in those places, it's not an immediate threat in terms of radioactivity," said Vengosh. "However, there's the danger of slow bioaccumulation of the radium. It will eventually end up in fish and that is a biological danger."

Shale gas production is exempt from the Clean Water Act, and the industry has pledged to self-monitor its waste production to avoid regulatory oversight.

 

 

However, the study clearly showed the need for independent monitoring and regulation, said Vengosh.

"What is happening is the direct result of a lack of any regulation. If the Clean Water Act was applied in 2005 when the shale gas boom started this would have been prevented.

 

 

"In the UK, if shale gas is going to develop, it should not follow the American example and should impose environmental regulation to prevent this kind of radioactive buildup."

 

 

The study also found elevated levels of salinity from the shale brine, which is 5 to 10 times more saline than sea water, that were 200-fold the regulated limit. Shale brine is also associated with high levels of bromide, which is not toxic by itself but turns into carcinogenic trihalomethanes during purification treatment.

 

 

The US Geological Service has previously reported elevated levels of radioactivity in "flowback" water that naturally occurs in the rock. But the Duke study, called "Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania," is the first to use isotope hydrology to connect the dots between shale gas waste, treatment sites, and discharge into drinking water supplies.

 

 

From January to June 2013, the 4,197 unconventional gas wells in Pennsylvania reported 3.5 meter barrels of fluid waste and 10.7 meter barrels of "produced" fluid. Most of that waste is disposed of within Pennsylvania, but some of it is also went to other states, such as Ohio and New York, despite its moratorium on shale gas exploration. In July, a treatment company in New York pleaded guilty to falsifying more than 3,000 water tests.

 

 

Earlier this year, Vengosh published another report that found higher methane, ethane, and propane concentrations in drinking water within a kilometer of shale gas drilling at 141 sites where drinking water samples were taken.

[surfergirl]

Shale gas is that the same as Seam Gas.?

In my area there has been a lot of protestsing to stop seam gas.

[Jewelz]

I think the new December Awake Can you trust the news media sums it up....

[Allabord4Jah]

Update on this:

 

Japan appeals for foreign help to stop leaks at crippled nuclear plant.

 

(from the Independent Paper/Oct 6, 2013)

 

Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has appealed for overseas help to contain the ever-increasing leaks of radioactive water at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima.  “We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem,” Mr Abe said in his speech to open the conference on energy and environment in Kyoto yesterday. “My country needs your knowledge and expertise,” he said. Despite Mr Abe’s reassurances to the International Olympic Committee last month that the leaks were “under control”, many Japanese believe he was glossing over problems at the plant.

 

Mr Abe did not say whether he still thinks the leaks are under control, nor did he give any specifics about foreign participation.

His comments come days after the plant’s operator acknowledged that highly contaminated water spilled from a storage tank as workers tried to fill it to the top.

 

Officials have acknowledged that contaminated groundwater has been seeping into the Pacific since shortly after reactors at the plant went into meltdown after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Recent leaks from storage tanks have added to public concerns.

Japan had been criticised for its perceived reluctance to accept foreign help to stop the leaks, which are hampering decommissioning work expected to last decades. It recently set up an expert body, with advisers from France, Britain and Russia, to develop the technologies needed to dismantle the plant.

[Jordan]

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-raises-fresh-concerns-about-radiation-levels-in-japanese-fish-1.1486514

 

Report raises fresh concerns about radiation levels in Japanese fish.

Two and a half years after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, concerns are again being raised about radiation levels in fish caught in the Pacific Ocean.

A report by the Vancouver weekly newspaper, The Georgia Straight, suggests at least 800 people worldwide could develop cancer from eating fish caught in Japan's waters – and about half of those cases will be fatal.

About 500 of the cancers will occur in Japan, while 75 will be due to Japanese fish exports to other countries, including Canada, the newspaper estimates. It also quotes several nuclear experts who say that estimate is likely conservative and the real toll could be closer to 80,000 cancers.

 

Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, notes that the estimate is based only on the fish that has been eaten up to now.

"People are going to continue to consume these fish and the toll could rise higher," he told CTV's Canada AM Monday from Montreal.

Radiation in fish in the waters off Japan has been a major issue of concern for many since March 2011, when an earthquake destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, sending tons of highly radioactive water into the ocean. The radioactive elements in the water could take decades to degrade, affecting several generations of fish.

 

 

The Japanese Fisheries Agency has been testing the radiation in fish caught in its waters since March 2011. On average, fish in the 33,000 tests had 18 becquerels per kilo of radioactive cesium – well below Health Canada’s ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo for cesium and even Japan's ceiling of 100 becquerels.

 

 

But even those radiation levels can still cause cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s cancer-risk formula.

And Edwards says Health Canada's own cesium limits are more of a guideline than a clear safety limit.

 

 

"It has to be recognized that even Health Canada acknowledges that even those levels correspond to an increased cancer risk of eight cancers per 1,000 people exposed over a 70-year period. So these are not safe levels, even by Health Canada's own standards," he said.

 

 

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.

While Canadians are exposed to radiation every day from the sun and the environment, Edwards notes that radioactive cesium doesn't exist in nature at all and it's not known if there is any safe level.

"The background level is zero. So this is all comes from the Fukushima disaster," he said of the fish.

 

 

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested fish exports from Japan for several months, but dropped the testing in June 2011, just three months after the disaster.

Edwards says he does not understand why the CFIA is not taking the issue more seriously.

 

 

"Canadian authorities are really doing us all a disservice by not following and monitoring this much more closely. They're treating it as though it's a kind of ho-hum situation, but in fact, it was a major event worldwide," he said.

"And it should be studied very more carefully because that's the only way we're going to learn what the effects of this may be for the future."

[Allabord4Jah]

Warning Friends, Walmart sells Shrimp from Thailand.  You know how currents travel!

[Jordan]

http://enenews.com/fukushima-farmer-plutonium-detected-all-village-professor-terrible-dreadful-happening-radiation-levels-high-mayor-please-dont-residents-video

 

Fukushima Farmer: Plutonium was detected “all over” village 25 miles from plant — Professor: “Something terrible, dreadful happening” — Mayor: Please don’t tell this to the residents.

 

 

Kenichi Hasegawa, Farmer from Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture, Canberra Forum, March 13, 2013 (At 40:00 in): After the nuclear accident, all over Iitate village, plutonium and strontium were detected [40km from nuclear plant]. [...] And then something unbelievable happened. Authorities started bringing many [hygienists or dentists?] to the village […] these doctors started doing this local safety campaign.

 

VIDEO LINK

 

 

They kept telling us, “It’s OK, it’s safe, there’s nothing to worry about.” […] The day before the evacuation order was announced, the professor from Kyoto University called Professor Imanaka came to the village and did a thorough research monitoring of the radiation levels. And Professor Imanaka, he was just astonished, “Something terrible, dreadful is happening. The radiation level was so high; I can’t believe people are still living here.” […] So Professor Imanaka brought his data to the mayor and said, “You guys should evacuate immediately.” But the mayor’s response was, “Please do not disclose this data to the public.” Instead he said, “Is there any way to live with this radiation?”

 

 

The village authorities only were interested in protecting the village itself, not the people. We wanted to protect the children and we suggested to evacuate the children, but they didn’t listen. And the day before the evacuation order, exclusion zone, was announced, the day before, a different professor from ??? University visited the village and he called all the parents to the town hall, and then gave a safety lecture, “Your kids can go out and play, your kids don’t have to wear masks just to play outside.” But the very next day the evacuation order was announced.

 

 

Japan physician who volunteered at a Minamisoma evacuation center soon after 3/11, Feb. 19, 2013 (at 54:00 in): What happened at that time was systematic effort by the prefecture government, […] as well as the Japanese central government, tried to minimize the amount of radiation. […] Primary concern [...] for Fukushima Minpo [newspaper] was losing business […] For the prefecture government, losing the people means less revenue, less positions.

 

 

Related Posts

1. Kyoto U. Professor: If Japan had set limit below 20 mSv/yr, evacuation would have caused national-level crisis — “They believed that they had no choice but to expose residents to radiation” October 21, 2011
2. Fukuhima Farmer: I’m full of rage — I refuse to leave and let go of this anger and grief — People in Tokyo don’t know what’s really happening here — I’m completely contaminated (VIDEO) January 27, 2012
3. NHK Special: Farmer in Fukushima no-go zone finds “certain abnormalities in his herd” — Cancer Professor: “I wonder what discoloration is… study could be relevant to humans” (VIDEO) September 10, 2013
4. Mayor: “We would end up dying, polluted to radiation all over” if we returned to Fukushima (VIDEO) February 7, 2013
5. Professor: We know all sorts of radioactive leaks are happening at Fukushima, it’s just not being documented — Situation is extremely unstable — Everybody’s just struggling to figure out how to deal with this (VIDEO) October 5, 2013

[Jordan]

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-high-radioactivity-well-335/

 

Radioactivity level spikes 6,500 times at Fukushima well.

Published time: October 18, 2013 02:08
 

Fukushima Governor Yuhei sato (orange helmet) inspects the contaminated water tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture on October 15, 2013. (AFP Photo/Jiji press)

 

Radioactivity levels in a well near a storage tank at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have risen immensely on Thursday, the plant’s operator has reported.

 

 

Officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Friday they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances - including strontium - at the site, a level 6,500 times higher than readings taken on Wednesday, NHK World reported.

 

 

The storage tank leaked over 300 tons of contaminated water in August, some of which is believed to have found its way into the sea through a ditch.

The well in question is about 10 meters from the tank and was dug to gauge leakage.

TEPCO said the findings show that radioactive substances like strontium have reached the groundwater. High levels of tritium, which transfers much easier in water than strontium, had already been detected.

Officials at TEPCO said they will remove any contaminated soil around the storage tank in an effort to monitor radioactivity levels of the water around the well. 

 

 

The news comes after it has been reported a powerful typhoon which swept through Japan led to highly radioactive water near the crippled nuclear power plant being released into a nearby drainage ditch, increasing the risk of it flowing into the sea.

On Wednesday TEPCO said it had detected high levels of radiation in a ditch leading to the Pacific Ocean, and that it suspected heavy rains had lifted contaminated soil.

[trottigy]

Hey, when are our "4 weeks" up? Did they start removing rods yet?

Edited October 18, 2013 by trottigy

[Jordan]

Hey, when are our "4 weeks" up? Did they start removing rods yet?

 

Not yet, that's not till next month. I they are saying that they think the extra water from the storm back up and pushed more Rads out of the ground. They should televise that procedure like they do other "real life" TV shows. Jerry think you and I can sell that to Hollywood? All we need is a good name for it and I think they will go for it.

 

[Jordan]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-17/fukushima-beta-radiation-levels-soar-new-record-aftermath-typhoon-wipha

 

It is only fitting that on the day the Stalingrad & Poorski 500 rises to a new record high, that that other centrally-planned catastrophe, the exploded Fukushima nuclear power plant, in the aftermath of Japan's Radioactivetyphoonado reports a completely different record: namely the level of beta radiation levels at Fukushima. Bloomberg notes that the nationalized utility Tepco, which has taken denial to a different superstring dimension altogether, has detected beta radiation levels of 400,000 becquerels per liter in a water sample taken yesterday from a monitoring well near storage tank area H4 at Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. This was the highest reading on record. This number compares to Beta radiation levels of 61 Bq/L in the sample taken Oct. 16 and 90 Bq/L in the Oct. 15 sample.

Japan Times has more:

 

 

The highest level yet of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, including strontium, has been detected at one point in a drainage ditch at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant where measurements are regularly taken, Tokyo Electric Power

Co

. said Thursday.

 

According to Tepco, a water sample taken Wednesday at a point in the ditch some 300 meters from the ocean was found to contain 1,400 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances, the highest level ever detected at that location.

 

Tepco said water that passed through the ditch may have entered the sea.

 

A water sample taken Tuesday at the same point contained 19 becquerels of such radioactive substances.

 

The radiation level surged after heavy rain caused by Typhoon Wipha, which hit the Tohoku region, including Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday, Tepco said. It is thought the rain washed out radioactive substances that had been absorbed by the ground

.

 

Radiation levels also hit record highs in water samples collected Wednesday at three upstream points in the drainage ditch, which passes close to the storage tank from which highly radioactive water spilled in August, with the amount of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances ranging from 2,000 to 2,300 becquerels per liter.

And while 400,000 may sound like a lot, keep in mind it is substantially less than the P/E Ratio that Mr. Yellen has in store for the S&P before this whole manipulated farce ends up in a just as radioactive pile of dust.

[trottigy]

Not yet, that's not till next month. I they are saying that they think the extra water from the storm back up and pushed more Rads out of the ground. They should televise that procedure like they do other "real life" TV shows. Jerry think you and I can sell that to Hollywood? All we need is a good name for it and I think they will go for it.

 

 

How about RODMageddon or well ... lets not use the first few letter of the name of the city 

[Jordan]

How about RODMageddon or well ... lets not use the first few letter of the name of the city 

aaaahahaha -- I'm calling hollywood now ...  Hello? TMZ?

Edited October 18, 2013 by Jordan

[Allabord4Jah]

Hi, saw this on the weather channel today.  Another OARFISH fish found on Ca beach.  Am wondering if the radiation from Japan could be causing these giant fish to die or eventually die and land on the beaches along the West Coast?

 

Oarfish: New 14-Foot 'Sea Serpent' Found in Southern California

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — For the second time in less than a week, a 'sea serpent' attracted gawkers on a Southern California beach.

This time the rare, snakelike oarfish washed up Friday afternoon in Oceanside.

 

U-T San Diego reported that it measured nearly 14 feet long and attracted a crowd of up to 75 people.

(MORE: 18-Foot Oarfish Found Off California Coast)

Oceanside police contacted SeaWorld San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Someone from NOAA retrieved the carcass, which was cut into sections for later study.

 

While it's unusual to find the deep-water fish near shore, on Sunday a snorkeler off Catalina Island found an 18-foot-long oarfish and dragged it onto the beach with the help of a dozen other people.

 

According to the Catalina Island Marine Institute, oarfish can grow to more than 50 feet, making them the longest bony fish in the world.

They are likely responsible for sea serpent legends throughout history

[Dustparticle]

Hi, saw this on the weather channel today.  Another OARFISH fish found on Ca beach.  Am wondering if the radiation from Japan could be causing these giant fish to die or eventually die and land on the beaches along the West Coast?

 

Oarfish: New 14-Foot 'Sea Serpent' Found in Southern California

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — For the second time in less than a week, a 'sea serpent' attracted gawkers on a Southern California beach.

This time the rare, snakelike oarfish washed up Friday afternoon in Oceanside.

 

U-T San Diego reported that it measured nearly 14 feet long and attracted a crowd of up to 75 people.

(MORE: 18-Foot Oarfish Found Off California Coast)

Oceanside police contacted SeaWorld San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Someone from NOAA retrieved the carcass, which was cut into sections for later study.

 

While it's unusual to find the deep-water fish near shore, on Sunday a snorkeler off Catalina Island found an 18-foot-long oarfish and dragged it onto the beach with the help of a dozen other people.

 

According to the Catalina Island Marine Institute, oarfish can grow to more than 50 feet, making them the longest bony fish in the world.

They are likely responsible for sea serpent legends throughout history

Good point.

[Jewelz]

Fukushima taboo? Politician draws Japanese Emperor into nuclear controversy.

[Jewelz]

Fukushima taboo? Politician draws Japanese Emperor into nuclear controversy.

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-politician-letter-emperor-033/

Jewel

[trottigy]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/11/01/japans-toxic-monster-creeping-towards-us/

 

More junk is on its way - "Japan’s 'toxic' monster creeping towards US"

[Jordan]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/11/01/japans-toxic-monster-creeping-towards-us/

 

More junk is on its way - "Japan’s 'toxic' monster creeping towards US"

 

That most concentrated part of the junk field is easily broader than Texas and centered approximately 1,700 miles off the Pacific coast, between California

 

 

 

Great...

 

In addition to physical junk, a wave of slightly radioactive water released from the broken Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactor is predicted to reach shore in 2014 -- but scientists point out that it is so diluted that it is harmless.

 

 

https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/fukushima-think-low-level-radiation-is-harmless-think-again/

Physicians for Social Responsibility notes:

 

According to the National Academy of Sciences, there are no safe doses of radiation. Decades of research show clearly that any dose of radiation increases an individual’s risk for the development of cancer.

 

Nothing to see here people ... move along.

[Jordan]

http://enenews.com/top-scientist-fukushima-is-the-most-terrifying-situation-i-can-imagine-ive-seen-a-paper-which-says-its-bye-bye-japan-and-to-evacuate-n-americas-west-coast-if-unit-4-goes-after-q
 

“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine” — I’ve seen a paper which says it’s bye-bye Japan and to evacuate N. America’s west coast if Unit 4 goes after quake and rods are exposed.
 

 


 

David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. [...] Dr. Suzuki is a geneticist [...] He held a research associateship in the Biology Division of Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Lab [...]
Wikipedia: Suzuki was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2009 [...] In 2004, David Suzuki was selected as the greatest living Canadian in a CBC poll.
 
 
David Suzuki at the University of Alberta, October 30, 2013 (At 2:45 in): Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine. You ask, what can we do? First of all you have got a government that is in total collusion with Tepco, they’re lying through their teeth. […] The fourth one has been so badly damaged that the fear is if there’s another quake of a 7 or above that that building will go, and then all hell breaks loose.

 

 

And the probability of a 7 or above quake in the next 3 years is over 95%. […] They don’t know what to do. We need to get a group of international experts to go in with complete freedom to do what they suggest. Right now the Japanese government has too much pride to admit that. I’ve seen a paper which says that if in fact the fourth plant goes under an earthquake and those rods are exposed, it’s bye-bye Japan, and everybody on the West Coast of North America should evacuate. Now if that isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is.
 
 
Suzuki recently published an article down-playing the Fukushima-related risk to consumers of seafood caught off the west coast of North America. He compares ingesting nuclear waste from Fukushima to naturally occurring radiation and exposure from air travel. Other experts in Canada have discussed the risks, including Dr. Erica Frank and Gordon Edwards.
 
 
David Suzuki, Oct. 10, 2013: Despite Fukushima, scientists say eating West Coast fish is safe [...] Trace amounts of radioisotopes from the Fukushima plant were found [in bluefin tuna off Califonia's coast], although the best available science puts them at levels below those naturally occurring in the environment around us. Natural, or background radiation, is found in many sources, including food items, medical treatments and air travel. The most comprehensive health assessment, by the World Health Organization, concludes radioactive particles that make their way to North America’s waters will have a limited effect on human health, with concentrations predicted to be below WHO safety levels. [...] I’m taking a precautionary approach: fish will stay part of my diet, as long as they’re caught locally and sustainably, and will remain so until new research gives me pause to reconsider.
 
Watch Suzuki speaking at the University of Alberta here

[Jewelz]

I think this whole mess is in Jehovah's hands. Thank goodness for that!!

[Jewelz]

So it goes :

Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-earthquake-evacuees-return-152/

Jewel