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    Major science meeting on Fukushima’s link to wildlife problems on West Coast — Looking closely at extent of radiation coming into affected areas, and how to best assess impact — Human health experts ‘reevaluating’ radiation limits in seafood… FDA levels ‘not terribly protective’ (VIDEO)

    Published: August 27th, 2014 at 8:15 pm ET
    By ENENews



    Interview with Kristen Milligan (transcript excerpts), Oregon State University marine ecologist, by WheepingWillow, June 13, 2014 (emphasis added):

    • 3:00 in — In fact there’s a workshop happening — I think it’s in either Boston or Washington DC, they’re just finishing up this week — which is looking at, it’s an international group of scientists looking actually at the radiation in the environment from Fukushima and looking at how to best assess impacts on wildlife in the Pacific… So they’re currently hard at work trying to make a very good and robust risk assessment of that, and it’s very complicated.
    • 5:00 in — There’s all these different stresses happening, and certainly Fukushima is one of them. Right now the scientists are looking closely at the question of to what extent the radiation is coming into the areas where along the West Coast, where we’re seeing these current ecological problems in the wildlife, and trying to balance that with all the other known things out there.
    • 6:00 in — The plume is really starting to be predicted to come in, reaching things around this time, and that’s part of why [inaudible] scientists are working together in a workshop just this past week about this — to figure out how to best measure and also look at levels, and how that relates to the problems we are seeing with wildlife.
    • 11:30 in — [Radiation levels in the tuna are] 3 times what they had been. It’s still well below the — whatever the, if you believe in FDA levels or not — which I actually used to work in water quality issues working on dioxin and DDT — and I think the FDA levels are not terribly protective. But there are other levels that are set by the EPA that are much lower than the FDA’s. The radiation levels in the fish are 3 times above what they had been, but they’re still lower than either one of those. That’s actually another thing that the workshop — that’s just been happening — is reevaluating, not just US scientists, but also human health experts from around the world.

    If someone is familiar with the workshop being discussed, please post a comment or write in using the form for news tips at the bottom of the right column. On June 16-17 in Washington DC the Department of State hosted the ‘Our Ocean’ Conference that “brought together individuals, experts, practitioners, advocates, lawmakers, and the international ocean and foreign policy communities to gather lessons learned, share the best science, offer unique perspectives, and demonstrate effective actions.”
    Full interview with Milligan available here
    Published: August 27th, 2014 at 8:15 pm ET

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    1. University researchers assess impact of Fukushima plume on U.S.; Some models show near straight line to West Coast — Experts: Radionuclides didn’t dilute offshore as officials had claimed, “cause for serious alarm” (VIDEOS) December 10, 2013
    2. Nuclear Expert: US allows very high levels of radiation to be released from nuke plants — EPA says not protective of public health (VIDEO) January 11, 2012
    3. Radiation spikes at WIPP nuclear facility — Hits highest levels since initial hours of radioactive release in February — Document link removed from official website — Gov’t analyzing samples for “potential impact on human health” June 27, 2014
    4. TV: Radiation in kelp could create a health concern for S. California seafood lovers — “The question we all want answered, how dangerous is this to you and me?” (VIDEO) April 10, 2012
    5. Canadian Gov’t Scientists: Model shows levels from Fukushima will exceed ‘maximum fallout’ in Pacific — “Not a human health radiological threat!” December 20, 2013

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    Japan Researchers: Models show North America hit with ‘very high’ levels from Fukushima plume — Radioactive material in ocean off West Coast was up to 500 times more than expected (VIDEO)

    Published: August 27th, 2014 at 1:48 pm ET
    By ENENews



    Source term estimation of atmospheric release due to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by atmospheric and oceanic dispersion simulations, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2013 (emphasis added):

    • FNPP1 accident widely dispersed radionuclides across the entire North Pacific region… simulation results in some area of the eastern North Pacific showed a tendency of underestimation against observed data… the simulation results in the eastern North Pacific [for 134Cs] were also lower than the measurement results. This tendency indicates that the actual abundance of 134Cs in the eastern North Pacific was higher… We attributed this tendency to an underestimation of the release rate in the initial source term… source term was estimated on the basis of environmental monitoring data on land. However, monitoring data in the ocean were not considered… accuracy of the initial source term [from March 12-14] was low… it was impossible to classify the volume of the amount released as a result of [Unit 3's] explosion.
    • Cesium-134 simulation with the new source term… the new source term increased the traffic transport of radionuclides to the east… the new release rates at all 18 terms increased… However, the simulation results [using new source term] in some areas of the eastern North Pacific remain underestimated.

    Note: Rightmost point inside large oval in the graph above shows a calculated (i.e. estimated) Cs-134 level of below 2E-05 Bq/L (.02 Bq/m³). The observed CS-134 level exceeded 1E-02 Bq/L (10 Bq/m³) — 500+ times than estimated.
    94th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting, 2014:

    • The Science Council of Japan launched a model intercomparison project to review the capability of current numerical models to reproduce the transport of radioactive materials released to the environment as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant… results show relatively good agreement of the deposition pattern of 137Cs, indicating significant deposition of 137Cs over the northwestern Pacific up to the Aleutian Islands, and reaching to the western part of North America.
    • 7:30 in — TY Tanaka, Japan Meteorological Agency: This map shows the horizontal distribution of cesium-137. As you can see, they show similar patterns of results from Fukushima power plant to the northwest Pacific Ocean and to the Aleutians. Some models reach very low North America — but some of them reach very high.

    Watch Tanaka’s presentation here

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    1. Study: High concentrations of Fukushima radioactive material will reach west coast of North America — “Entire coast” to be affected from Alaska to Mexico — “Can negatively affect human life for decades… should raise concern” (MODEL) September 23, 2013
    2. Report: U.S. West Coast to be hard-hit by Fukushima ocean contamination — North Pacific Gyre transporting radioactive material to America August 23, 2013
    3. Study: Fukushima airborne plumes “caused significant deposition of radioactivity over North America” — Especially for West Coast and eastern U.S. — Around 13% of all radioactive iodine released into atmosphere was deposited over USA and Canada (MAP) February 14, 2014
    4. Study: North America’s West Coast to be most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years — “An order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan (MAPS) July 15, 2012
    5. Senior Scientist: Fukushima radiation already on West Coast of N. America — We don’t know how much is coming or how fast it’s moving, situation ‘evolving’ — Levels will continue to rise for years — Unprecedented event for Pacific, largest ever radioactive release into ocean (VIDEO) January 15, 2014

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    Newspaper: Strontium-90 from Fukushima found along west coast of N. America — “Plutonium… might be in the plume” — Scientist: There needs to be more monitoring… No sign radioactive releases from plant are going to stop

    Published: August 28th, 2014 at 7:56 am ET
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    Haida Gwaii Observer (BC, Canada), Jan 7, 2014:

    • A scientist at the University of Victoria is trying to find… residents who’d like to submit samples to be tested for radiation
    • Professor Jay Cullen said a plume of radioactive material from Japan was tracked across the Pacific and arrived off the west coast of North America last June
    • “As of 2013, (it was) detected inshore along Vancouver Island,” Dr. Cullen said
    • Several radioactive materials have been found, with Cesium 137 the most potentially problematic
    • He said off Vancouver Island, a measurement of [Cesium 137 found] .009 Becquerels per litre [9 Bq/m³]
    • The plume also contains other radioactive material, including 90 at a far, far lower level than was released into the atmosphere during the nuclear bomb testing
    • Low levels of plutonium and tritium might be in the plume
    • There is no sign the release is going to stop, Dr. Cullen said
    • He said he thinks there needs to be more monitoring, especially since the radioactive discharge will continue

    Jordi Vives i Batlle, Radioecologist at Belgian Nuclear Research Centre: The Fukushima accident is the only major nuclear accident that has resulted in the direct discharge of radioactive materials into a coastal environment… Radionuclides can also become biologically concentrated. There is ample evidence of this for I, Cs, Pu, and Am in many species of marine biota… Cs will tend to accumulate in fish… Pu and Am will tend to accumulate in benthic crustaceans and mollusks… potentially protracted times of elimination after the initial influx of radioactivity has dispersed from the area [should be accounted for]… irregular pulses of radioactivity [may have been released into] the marine environment [and] ambient concentrations could vary rapidly… Conservative screening approaches based on equilibrium concentration factors may therefore be inadequate. Such a situation calls for… models that are capable of calculating time-integrated dose for a pulsed release of radioactivity… Little is known regarding long-term effect to entire populations, a limitation that is unlikely to be resolved in the near future… accidental radiological releases pose particular challenges to the evaluation or impact in marine ecosystems [such as] scarcity of data from previous accidents, and another is the scarcity or information on how radiation affects interconnected populations of marine biota. Yet another challenge is the dynamic nature of the possible releases… the complexity of the marine environment [has] potential for local concentration and long-range dispersion.
    See also: Swiss Journalist: Marine biologists now telling me there's been a change in radioactive material coming from Fukushima -- More and more strontium being detected in samples, not just cesium -- Is gov't testing for it... is it in our food? (VIDEO)

    Published: August 28th, 2014 at 7:56 am ET

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    1. Nuclear Expert: This is just 1st radioactive wave hitting U.S. and Canada; Fukushima pouring into ocean, unstoppable for years and years — Marine Expert: No sign it will stop anytime soon; Plant unstable, potentially worse than Chernobyl (AUDIO) January 21, 2014
    2. Senior Scientist: Fukushima radiation already on West Coast of N. America — We don’t know how much is coming or how fast it’s moving, situation ‘evolving’ — Levels will continue to rise for years — Unprecedented event for Pacific, largest ever radioactive release into ocean (VIDEO) January 15, 2014
    3. Senior Scientist: Fukushima cores melted through the containment vessels — I’m very concerned about sea life on West Coast accumulating radioactive material; Some contamination will arrive in concentrated pockets (AUDIO) January 3, 2014
    4. Professor’s Diary: Fukushima radioactive material “has reached the west coast as of June 2013 by ocean transport” — Health risks to be determined by ongoing monitoring January 10, 2014
    5. Senior Scientist: US West Coast had radiation dose estimated at 5 microsieverts from Fukushima; I’m not going to say it’s low, risk of health effects ‘not zero’ — CBC: There’s more radiation in potato chips than fish around Fukushima plant… so of course there’s nothing to fear on West Coast (VIDEO) June 7, 2014

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    Official wept at prime minister’s office: “I’m sorry, we’ve tried… but we are in a situation beyond our control” at Fukushima — Hours Later: “People’s blood ran cold”… “Huge hole” suspected to have opened up in No. 2 Reactor

    Published: August 25th, 2014 at 1:20 pm ET
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    Kyodo News, Aug 25, 2014:

    • An official of [TEPCO] wept at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo as the utility felt it had exhausted all options to prevent the worst from happening
    • “I’m sorry. We’ve tried many things, but we are in a situation beyond our control,” [said a TEPCO official]
    • Explosions at the Nos. 1 and 3 reactor buildings [had occurred and they were] facing fears of a reactor containment rupture
    • 7:30 p.m. on March 14, TEPCO’s Managing Director [said] “things could get crazy”
    • A dull sound reached the emergency response office at about 6:14 a.m.
    • People’s blood ran cold as they heard from reactor operators that the pressure inside the No. 2 reactor’s suppression chamber… dropped to zero
    • “The suppression chamber might have got a huge hole. A hell of a lot of radioactive substances could come out,” [said a lead TEPCO worker]
    • [Fukushima Daiichi plant chief] Yoshida instantly decided it was time for evacuation.

    In the hours and minutes before pressure dropped to zero at Unit 2, officials were frequently discussing plans to evacuate the plant, according to Kyodo’s report:

    • TEPCO Director on Mar. 14 at 7:30 pm: “Please start setting the criteria for evacuation”
    • [TEPCO vice president] ordered his subordinates at the head office to craft an evacuation plan, while… [Plant chief] Yoshida started arrangements to secure buses
    • TEPCO President… phoned [officials] many times to seek approval of staff withdrawal, which he called an “evacuation”
    • Prime Minister Naoto Kan: “If people withdraw, the eastern part of Japan will be destroyed … It doesn’t matter if senior officials in their 60s go to the site and die. I will also go.”

    Talk of evacuation wasn’t the only thing being heard at the plant during this time span: 'China Syndrome'? Former Japan Official: Underground rumblings heard in Fukushima plant area night of March 14, 2011 -- "Caused by melted fuel underground" (VIDEO)
    Book by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (2014): Operators at the site [were] facing a nightmare scenario… workers’ efforts to address the situation… were stymied by the sheer impossibility of the situation… the prime minister and several top Cabinet officials had feared serious high-risk dangers… they had not at all disclosed to the public… rising pressure in unit it reactor containment vessel, which, they knew, could lead to a possible explosion that would instantly release huge quantities of radioactive elements… chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission reported… the “worst-case scenario”: If the situation worsened… as many as thirty million people would need to leave their communities, including many in the Tokyo area.
    See also: Fukushima Plant Chief after 3/11: It will be like ‘China Syndrome’ film, fuel to melt away — “We’re imagining collapse of eastern Japan… going to be more than Chernobyl”

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    How Badly Is Fukushima Radiation Damaging the Pacific Ocean?

    Copyright Richard Wilcox 2014
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    Although its heart is rich in pearls and ores
    The Sea complains upon a thousand shores
    - Alexander Smith (1)

    I watched some wonderful movies over the summer with “ocean” themes and one was with Robert Redford called All is Lost. The entertainment value was good but it also made a statement about Man's interference with Nature and how nature can strike back. I love films like All is Lost, Master and Commander, in which the imperial navy visits the Galapagos Islands and “Kon Tiki,” a story about a 4,000 mile trek across the ocean, because they show the unspeakable beauty and power of the world's great oceans. Can humans actually destroy them?

    Over the past year we've read many news stories about mass die-offs of marine species in the Pacific Ocean and other regions. One hypothesis in the alternative media is that the massive radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is the cause. Others blame over-fishing, pollution or climatic events.

    My opinion is that if the die-offs are unusual and “man made” then it is a combination of factors, but Fukushima is probably one of them. The Earth is under many human threats -- we are an industrious species -- Fukushima is doing the ocean only harm, and following that logic, at a minimum the health of local species and perhaps wider ecosystems are being affected in a reverse synergy whereby organisms have surpassed the limits they can endure.

    Controversy and Denial

    Folks love to argue about whether things like radiation has killed the ocean; whether global warming is real or not or caused by humans emitting CO2; or whether the Twin Towers on 9/11 were brought down with nanothermite or mini-nuke explosives. But in all three cases the harm that has been caused is uncontroversial. We should stop polluting the environment with harmful pollutants (such as sulfur dioxide from coal burning plants) and promote renewable energy sources; we know the official story of 9/11 is a total lie regardless of how the buildings were demolished (see, for example: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth); and we know that whatever amount of radiation is leaking into the ocean it is a bad thing and needs to be stopped.


    It appears that after three long years a group of scientists are finally going to have a meeting to discuss the effects of Fukushima on wildlife (2). Logical discourse, debate and scientific honesty are essential to finding consensus on how to solve the problem. However, our scientific and political institutions are often so inflexible that it's not easy to change course or offer reforms for improvement. And, let's face it, our economic and political system is rotten to the core (3; 4; 5; 6).

    Fukushima Pumps Out Contamination

    Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is the utility in charge of the (FNPP #1) Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 (“dai-ichi). They recently admitted that FNPP#1 is releasing a whopping 150 billion becquerels of tritium and 7 billion becquerels of cesium and strontium of contaminated water, every day, into the ocean (7). Compare that to the Japanese government limit for food that does not allow over 100 becquerels per kilogram in food to be sold as produce.

    Fukushima: Worst Nuclear Disaster In History

    It is estimated by the State of California Natural Resources Agency that the initial Fukushima accident released nearly double the amount of radiation compared to Chernobyl (.

    No human worker can enter the areas around the FNPP#1 reactor buildings because it measures up to 10 sieverts per hour (9) due to the melted nuclear fuel which is scattered at various locations beneath the reactors.

    10 sieverts equals10,000 millisieverts (a lifetime dose should not exceed 100 ms!) or 10 million microsieverts per hour, when a normal background rate might be around 0.05 up to 0.15 microsieverts per hour (10).

    NHK claims the melted fuel has “cooled down” but so what? The Abe-controlled NHK wants to reassure the public with sugary, sprinkled donut language that “all is well” in Fukushima (11). If you compare the mild non-coverage that Fukushima gets in the Japanese domestic media versus the compendium of worries that independent researchers and scientists have documented it betrays the level of denial and helplessness on the part of the Japanese establishment versus grim reality (12).

    Eco-Damage

    Dr. Tim Mousseau has carried out extensive biological research at both Chernobyl and now Fukushima prefecture and found the same patterns of genetic mutations and damage to insects, birds and other organisms caused by the high doses of radiation released by the accidents (13).

    War Is Peace, Slavery Is Freedom

    In 2013, Dr. Chris Busby, an articulate chap of enormous integrity and “an expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation and Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk,” stated -- in a fascinating interview about how the Nuclear/Military Industrial Complex buys their own scientists in order to produce fabricated results -- that Fukushima is “probably the worst public health scandal in human history” and that the “actual background rate for thyroid cancer in Japan is actually zero...[according to] a study done in 2005” (14; 15). The background rate before the disaster was zero.

    It was recently announced that “[t]hyroid cancer [was] diagnosed in 104 young people” in Fukushima. However, “government officials in Fukushima say they do not believe the cases of thyroid gland cancer diagnosed or suspected in the 104 young people are linked to the 2011 nuclear accident” (16).

    The article does not offer a counter argument for what might have caused the cancers, but some dissenting experts do think Fukushima is the cause. Oddly, the government is not carrying out thyroid cancer research in other regions farther away from the disaster site such as in Kagoshima or Okinawa in order to compare the data, and are apparently ignorant of the study Chris Busby dug up that indicated the zero incidence background rate prior to the disaster!

    Considering that the normal rate of thyroid cancer in children is zero or very rare -- as it was just prior to the Chernobyl disaster -- the statement by officials that there is no link to the disaster is a shameless lie. But we are talking about genocidal psychopaths in the Nuclear Industry aren't we? (17)

    The United Nations, whatever its good intentions, which controls the IAEA who in turn oversee global nuclear affairs, is a compromised institution when it comes to regulating the Nuclear-Military Psychopaths (NMP) (1.

    Nuclear Power Causes Childhood Leukemia

    Dr. Ian Fairlie is a rare breed of hard-headed and uncompromising scientist, not of the bought-and-paid-for variety. In a recent article he further exposes what has been known for decades by the Chris Busbys and Helen Caldicotts of this world, that even “properly” functioning nuclear power plants are dangerous. His research finds:
    a highly statistically significant 37% increase in childhood leukemias within 5 km of almost all NPPs [nuclear power plants] in the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland. It’s perhaps not surprising that the latter 3 countries have announced nuclear phaseouts and withdrawals. It is only the UK government that remains in denial (19).
    Suffer The Little Children

    Considering the Nuclear Cartel's control over Japanese politics, blatant denial of statistical data in Europe and the way the UN is compromised, it's unsurprising to find that the Japanese government, prone to byzantine politics and opaque political processes to begin with, would lie about the effects of radiation on children.

    The excellent website, Simply Info, opined that the recent findings of increasing cancers among Fukushima children exposes the government's deceptive handling of the issue:

    “The Health Survey has been less than transparent in what data they release. Many times the data given makes it impossible to perform any sort of outside analysis or obtain a clear picture of what is going on. The survey has refused to release any sort of raw data or additional information in a way that allows for ... review or confirmation that their reports accurately present the real situation” (20).

    Whither The Pacific Northwest?

    Recently Dana Durnford who is true citizen-hero, is also a resident, fisherman and diver of the British of Columbia coastal area of Canada. He and a colleague did a survey of 200 km of the BC coast and found it to be practically lifeless of many normally thriving species (21). This is unprecedented according to Durnford who has lived and worked in the region for years and knows the topography and ecology there like the back of his hand. Is the cause due to Fukushima radiation?

    This article from Washington’s Blog (WB) has some good maps that show how ocean currents are sweeping Fukushima radiation toward North America (22). The big question is about dispersion of radiation in the ocean: does it disperse and dilute and become harmless or is it concentrated enough to have an effect? A fisheries expert cited in the article argues that radiation is not the cause but WB refutes some of his claims. An anonymous person in the comment section purports a theory about radiation killing the plankton thereby screwing up the ocean ecology. It sounds like a reasonable hypothesis to me that should be investigated.

    A Drop In The Ocean?

    Returning to the argument of Dr. Chris Busby, while a lot of people make big statements about the death of the Pacific, he uses mathematical calculations to make his case. I have not seen his figures either verified or disputed by other scientists.

    In his audio interview he noted he is aware that all of the radiation will not dilute uniformly and that various currents will concentrate the radiation in certain places but he does not believe the radiation will cause an ecological catastrophe because the ocean is just too darned big. Busby does emphasize the danger to Japan especially people living in the vicinity of Fukushima, but notes that even if the entire inventory of radioactive materials were to make it to the ocean, that the above ground atomic bomb tests released more radiation than Fukushima could.

    If we add the bomb tests plus Fukushima, maybe the accumulation is something to worry about.

    Here is what he wrote for Russia Today in 2013:
    The...Pacific Ocean is big enough for this level of release not to represent the global catastrophe that some are predicting. Let’s get some scoping perspective on this. The volume of the North Pacific is 300 million cubic kilometers. The total inventory of the four Fukushima Daiichi reactors, including their spent fuel pools, is 732 tons of Uranium and Plutonium fuel which is largely insoluble in sea water. The inventory in terms of the medium half-life nuclides of radiological significance Cs-137, Cs-134 and Strontium-90, is 3 x 1018 becquerels (Bq) each. Adding these up gives about 1019 Bq. If we dissolve that entire amount into the Pacific, we get a mean concentration of 33 Bq per cubic meter - not great, but not lethal. Of course this is ridiculous since the catastrophe released less than 1017 Bq of these combined nuclides and even if all of this ends up in the sea (which it may do), the overall dilution will result in a concentration of 1 Bq per cubic meter. So the people in California can relax. In fact, the contamination of California and indeed the rest of the planet from the global weapons test fallout of 1959-1962 was far worse, and resulted in the cancer epidemic which began in 1980. The atmospheric megaton explosions drove the radioactivity into the stratosphere and the rain brought it back to earth to get into the milk, the food, the air, and our children’s bones. Kennedy and Kruschev called a halt in 1963, saving millions (Op. cit.).
    Copyright Richard Wilcox 2014

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    Mainstream science websites like Deep Sea News posit that there is no threat whatsoever from Fukushima radiation, yet devote very little attention to the issue other than to deride those are worried about it (23). In one of their rare articles on the topic I read some months ago, there had previously been a long and thoughtful debate in the comment section among some of their critics, even mainstream scientists, who chastised DSN for so handily dismissing the radiation threat. Recently when I checked the site all of those comments had been deleted and no new articles on the topic had since been published. Only those who cheerlead for their website are allowed to publish comments.

    Science follows funding, and promoting the anthropogenic theory of global warming (AGW) pays better than locking horns with the nuclear industry (big bucks military industrial complex). In the meantime, promoters of Al Gore's official religion, AGW, had to come up with a computer model to explain why global warming is on hiatus until 2030, but don't worry, it will be back and so will their funding (24).

    The Cosmic Convergence Group has just published a lengthy essay that goes into multiple causes of climate change, and while acknowledging the reality of AGW disagree with the way it has been over emphasized and politicized and instead offer a scientific analysis of complex, interrelated phenomenon (25).

    As one observer noted to me regarding ocean collapse and climate change:
    I think its a state-change in the Pacific eco-system and that Fukushima was simply the precipitating catalyst (26). Entropy was rising in the Pacific for many reasons but whole-scale chemical and elemental contamination (e.g., lead, mercury, uranium, strontium) had already pushed the world's oceans towards state change. There are also quite a few earth changes that have increased ocean acidification. I really think the climate change problem distracts from the more encompassing problem of broad scale eco-system collapse. (Maija Nadesan, personal email communication, August 29, 2014).
    The Knowledge Gap And Pacific Marine Species Die-Offs

    Nancy Foust of Simply Info replied to my question as well: “How bad is the radiation to Pacific marine life?”:
    There is lots of debate about this issue with die offs. Much of what has been cited since 2011 had documented problems or previous similar die offs prior to Fukushima.
    What is the big unknown is that the radiation releases from Daiichi are still very much up for debate. This gives me pause every time I see some declaration that there is no problem of any kind and never will be related to the Pacific. Until we all have a better scientific grasp of the actual releases into the Pacific over time it is impossible to make solid projections. Most of the estimates on Pacific contamination that I have read only used the initial sea releases as their basis. So they do a good job of estimating where contamination might circulate. But if they only account for the initial release and not the additional over time releases, their estimate will be low. The big question is how low.
    Are they just slightly lower or are they considerably lower? What matters then is what were the actual releases to the sea over time. Right now nobody is doing comprehensive and unbiased research into this, or if they are they haven't published it yet. So there is a knowledge gap.
    Recently TEPCO admitted to much larger sea releases over time since 2011 than they had previously admitted to [currently 157 billion becquerels per day!]. There were some oceanography experts that had called TEPCO's previous figures into question as their readings were showing there had to be an ongoing release because the readings they were taking were not sufficiently going down over time.
    So the big question is the difference between these estimates currently being used for Pacific projections and how these new admissions might change those.
    As far as dispersal. It appears to be a little of both based on the published studies and what oceanographers seem to be most interested in monitoring. It will dilute to an extent, but it will also follow currents and there is some research that found concentrations higher in certain levels of the sea depths. There is also the known issue of cesium concentrating in the sea floor. Much of the research has focused on cesium but from the new TEPCO findings strontium 90 is an equal or larger concern and it isn't being monitored or tested for in the sea the way cesium is (personal email communication, August 27, 2014).
    Animal Die-Offs Worldwide

    In 2013, yachtsman “Ivan MacFadyen says he was shocked by absence of sea life during his 37,000km voyage between Australia and Japan” and described the Pacific Ocean as “dead” due to “severe overfishing.” He reported that the ocean was strewn with “copious amounts of rubbish” and that “[i]t started to strike me the closer we got to Japan” the deader the ocean became (27).

    There are multiple causes to the destruction of the flora and fauna of the planet including pollution (from rubbish to radiation), habitat destruction, poaching/over harvesting of species for human consumption and even geophysical disruptions that are now taking their toll on marine habitats.

    Whether or not you share the eschatological position of the website, End Times Prophecy, I was amazed to come across this list of animal die-offs at their page, “Mass Animal Deaths for 2014.” It is truly horrifying and appears to be entirely verifiably, factual information (2. We do have to consider that throughout Earth history there have been population explosions followed by die-offs, and that in the past, before the Internet, many of these occurrences were not so readily documented for public viewing. Still, there seems to be a pronounced and disturbing pattern here that is not just a random collection of information.

    Meanwhile Japanese Are Still Eating Fish

    It is hard to detect the severity of this state-change to the natural world when viewing the complacency and normality of daily affairs in Japan. Sushi restaurants all over Tokyo are packed with customers as if nothing ever happened. Most people, although against nuclear power now, are apolitical and apathetic and will do pretty much whatever the government lays out for them (hey sheep the abattoir is over there!). This is evident as the economy stagnates, the nuclear issue remains unresolved and yet Prime Minister Abe keeps pushing to increase Japan's military and nuclear capabilities.

    Understandably the farmers in Fukushima are suffering due to the disaster which had nothing to do with them in the first place. Someone else's mistake (Tepco's) has cost them their livelihoods. In reality, Fukushima prefecture is quite large and I would guess the other side of the region does not have that much radiation, but because the name “Fukushima” is affixed to a food product many people will avoid buying it for fear of radiation.

    That said, one wonders about the wisdom of campaigning the rest of the country to gobble down Fukushima's delicious produce. Seafood will have to be monitored for a long time, if not forever (29). And yet one 5 star hotel in Japan is trying to support Fukushima by serving its food on their menu (30). However, Japan is having a hard time getting other Asian countries such as Hong Kong to accept their exported food (31).

    I live in Tokyo and personally avoid buying any produce from the northeast or Tokyo regions, although sometimes it is unavoidable. The radiation from Fukushima's nuclear explosions spread hot particles and all assortment of radionuclides across Japan, North America and even the entire world. No one is safe.

    Copyright Richard Wilcox 2014
    Going Green Before We Go Dead

    All of this mess could have been avoided. As the world's leading renewable energy expert, Amory Lovins has shown, renewables such as solar and wind could offset the need for nuclear and fossil fuel based energy sources for many countries including Europe, the US and Japan. Probably for the entire world.

    Even the bastion of capitalist ideology, perhaps following the lead of investors like Warren Buffett, Forbes magazine, is promoting wind power over nuclear as having greater scalability, meaning that wind power versus nuclear has “the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth” (36). If there is anything capitalists love it is growth of their assets so maybe they are waking up to saner options.

    Fukushima And Dispossession

    Finally, please keep an eye out for the upcoming book on Fukushima entitled: Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization (2014). It should be published within the next month or so and is an anthology of articles by a wide variety of independent-minded journalists and scholars of unique talent written in order bring into sharper focus the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Some of the proceeds from the book will be donated to help children refugees who are still suffering in temporary housing situations in the Fukushima area.

    Copyright Richard Wilcox 2014

    Richard Wilcox is a Tokyo-based teacher and writer who holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies and is a regular contributor to the world's leading website exposing the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Rense.com. He is also a contributor to Activist Post. His radio interviews and articles are archived at http://wilcoxrb99.wordpress.com and he can be reached by email for radio or internet podcast interviews to discuss the Fukushima crisis at wilcoxrb2013@gmail.com.

    References

    1. Alexander Smith, “I cannot deem why men toil so for fame”
    http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...n-toil-so-fame

    2. Major science meeting on Fukushima’s link to wildlife problems on West Coast http://enenews.com/major-gathering-o...erts-reevaluat

    3. How The Hard Science PhDs Have Wrecked The World
    http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=3774

    4. LDP looks to crack down on public demonstrations near Diet, hate speech
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201.../#.VACew6XpZ4M

    5. Japan’s secrets bill turns journalists into terrorists
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/.../#.Up9JmaVRGf0

    6. Abe’s second strike against freedoms
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/.../#.Uro2f6VRGf1

    7. Fukushima Daiichi Sea Releases Updated To 157 Billion Bq Per Day
    http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13705

    8. Fukushima released up to 181 Quadrillion Bq of cesium
    http://enenews.com/govt-report-fukus...read-north-pac

    9. Muon Detection Tests Begin
    http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13680

    10. Millisievert Conversion Chart
    http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert...rmsievert.html

    11. Looking Inside Fukushima Daiichi
    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/engli.../20140820.html

    12. We've Opened The Gates Of Hell
    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/...ates-hell.html

    13. Timothy A. Mousseau: "Fukushima Catastrophe and its Effects on Wildlife" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IcTGUMwVtU

    14. Pump and pray: Tepco might have to pour water on Fukushima wreckage forever
    http://rt.com/op-edge/tepco-fukushim...r-reactor-194/

    15. THE COMING FUKUSHIMA GLOBAL DISASTER WITH DR. CHRISTOPHER BUSBY
    http://www.infowars.com/the-coming-f...stopher-busby/

    16. Thyroid cancer diagnosed in 104 young people in Fukushima
    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201408240011

    17. Zealots of the Atom: The Nuclear Cult
    http://www.karlgrossman.com/Articles...f%20the%20Atom

    18. Wikileaks: Ban Ki-Moon Worked with Israel to Undermine UN Report
    http://www.telesurtv.net/english/new...0809-0020.html

    19. Childhood Leukemias Near Nuclear Power Stations
    http://www.ianfairlie.org/news/child...s-new-article/

    20. More Fukushima Children Found With Thyroid Cancer
    http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13676

    21. Dana Durnford & Terry Daniels - Proof Radiation Is KILLING The Pacific
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eku4X1-NrkA

    22. Mass Die-Off of West Coast Sealife: Fukushima Radiation … Or Something Else? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/...fic-ocean.html

    23. Is the sea floor littered with dead animals due to radiation? No.
    http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/is-th...-radiation-no/

    24. Hiatus in global warming is due to Atlantic currents, study says, but will end in 2030
    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201...l-end-in-2030/

    25. Global Climate Change: A Definitive Essay On The Primary Causes Of Global Warming
    http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=7707

    26. Animal Anomalies: Is the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster a 'Tipping Point'?
    http://majiasblog.blogspot.jp/2013/1...a-daiichi.html

    27. Yachtsman describes horror at ‘dead’, rubbish strewn Pacific Ocean
    http://www.theguardian.com/environme...-pacific-ocean

    28. Mass Animal Deaths for 2014
    http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/an...end-times.html

    29. Pacific seafood must be monitored for radiation, forever
    http://enenews.com/cbc-all-felt-doomed-fukushima-spreading-across-pacific-theyll-be-fish-sea-life-will-be-dead-professor-releasing-radioisotopes-directly-ocean-speak-sight-reactors-control-ongoing-disaster-audio-vid

    30. 5 star hotel Grand Hyatt Fukuoka supports Fukushima by eating http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/5-star-hotel-grand-hyatt-fukuoka-supports-fukushima-eating/

    31. Hong Kong rejects request to lift restriction on Japanese food imports http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/g...anese-imports/

    32. Lovins, A. (2014, June 2. How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany, Forbes, Retrieved from: http://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylov...n-for-germany/

    33. The storage necessity myth: how to choreograph high-renewables electricity systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsgrahFln0s

    34.We Don’t Need a Huge Breakthrough to Make Renewable Energy Viable—It Already Is http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...952254/?no-ist

    35. Which Is More Scalable, Nuclear Energy Or Wind Energy?http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/08/22/which-is-more-scalable-nuclear-energy-or-wind-energy/

    36. Scalability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability


    http://www.activistpost.com/2014/08/...radiation.html

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    “We’re Alarmed”: Chunks missing from bodies of salmon from Pacific — Lesions in over 50% of fish being reported — Experts: “Looks like traumatic insult… followed by bacterial invasions”; Investigating for pathogens — Wounds this significant must impact ability to survive (PHOTO)

    Published: August 31st, 2014 at 4:18 pm ET
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    Vancouver Sun, Aug 30, 2014 (emphasis added): Sockeye salmon… are showing up this year with chunks taken out of their bodies, raising concerns about the [parasitic Pacific] lamprey’s impact on the spawning migration. Rick Jeffries, a former commercial fisherman who is in charge of marketing a Secwepemc aboriginal commercial fishery in Kamloops Lake, said more than 50 per cent of the sockeye have bite marks, some with multiple bites cutting right to the flesh. “We’re alarmed at what we’re seeing,” he said in an interview Friday. “These are significant wounds that must adversely influence the sockeye’s probability to survive.”… Lara Sloan, spokeswoman for the federal fisheries department, confirmed that sockeye in the Thompson River system this season have been caught with circular markings that could be from lampreys, but the exact cause cannot be confirmed without testing.
    Salmon wounds this year — Warning- graphic pictures, Fish Sniffer Forum, Aug 23, 2014:

    • I’m seeing more pics posted with wounded river fish. I don’t think any of my fish last year had these wounds.
    • I also heard that a lot of fish are being dragged in like wet socks. They go on one run for the deep and then submit… Whatever it is, it’s not good I’m sure… The dead fish I’ve seen have also had these on them.
    • I’ve never seen this many fish with wounds in the past… If I was to catch one that looks like a couple of those pictures, There’s NO WAY I’m eatin’ that ugly puppy.
    • Got an update from the fish pathologist. “these lesions do look like a traumatic insult and then maybe followed by bacterial invasions. The more rash like lesions may be a bit different with respect to potential causes. To really get a better idea, a full necropsy with some histological analyses would be more informative.” He also said that the lesions were noted in the Winter run salmon this season. Gonna bump this up to the next level with some sample collections and necropsies.
    • Heard back from Dr. Scott Foott from the U.S. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife… “The best candidate is a trauma site leading to columnaris infection”… Still wonder what is causing the initial trauma and why it is so much more prevalent (or apparent) this year.
    • This doesn’t sound good to me. Not trying to be a buzz kill here, just concerned.
    • Over 50% of the fish in the Tisdale to Verona section have these wounds. I’ve seen 20-30 fish caught there (live or txt/emailed pics) and most have some kind of wound.
    • Two UC Davis fish pathologists are going to look at some salmon that show these wounds and examine them for the presence of pathogens in the wound itself and organ systems. Glad to get them on board to take a look (note they are not just hack grad students). They were pretty interested in what is happening to our salmon this year.
    • This thread is a great example of what the forums are all about. We can all put our two cents in to try and figure this problem out. However, we now have enough interest generated on this topic that fishermen are willing to volunteer their salmon to research so the experts can find out what is happening based on the facts. A great team effort by all involved. Hopefully the mystery can be solved and it won’t be too bad of news.

    See also: TV: "Mysterious die off of young salmon" in Pacific Northwest -- "Healthy... and then they die" heading out to sea -- "Far less plankton than normal... There are too many questions" -- Researchers now testing for plankton and Fukushima contamination off West Coast (VIDEO)

    Related Posts

    1. Experts: Areas along West Coast “may be… affected in a significant way” by Fukushima plume in coming months — Impact cannot be accurately predicted, currents to produce complex results — Radioactive materials can be ‘fairly concentrated’ even after crossing Pacific February 24, 2014
    2. Physician in Canada on Cancer Estimates: Epidemic of Fukushima radiation-related deaths from consuming Pacific fish? “Vast implications for human health” — “I eat so much salmon… I’m vulnerable” October 3, 2013
    3. Official 10:40a ET Update: Preliminary evaluations of sinkhole show no ‘significant’ changes to size — Three state agencies investigating area August 30, 2012
    4. Mutilated dolphins found along Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida — Missing body parts, screwdriver wounds (VIDEOS) November 30, 2012
    5. Newspaper: Unprecedented declines in Alaska king salmon… related to impact from Fukushima? No comment, says NOAA biologist — Record low numbers seen in major fishery on Canada’s west coast, “alarming decrease” December 29, 2013

  10. #440
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    TV: “Mysterious die off of young salmon” in Pacific Northwest — “Healthy… and then they die” heading out to sea — “Far less plankton than normal… There are too many questions” — Researchers now testing for plankton and Fukushima contamination off West Coast (VIDEO)

    Published: August 6th, 2014 at 2:54 pm ET
    By ENENews
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    Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, July 30, 2014: Karlista Rickerson [...] collects and examines water samples for Public Health — Seattle & King County, and she said her most recent sample revealed far less plankton than she normally sees this time of year. She wonders if perhaps there has been a surge in the creatures that feed on the microorganisms — creatures that typically fall prey to sea stars. “There are too many questions. All I can do is ask more,” she said.
    KING5 News (Seattle), Aug 5, 2014: Salmon scientists zoom in on plankton [...] “We want to take a look at the plankton,” said Tribal field Crew Supervisor Nano Perez. For the first time, tribes, agencies and groups in Canada are giving plankton a serious look as part of the massive Salish Sea Marine Survival Project. The concern is the balance and supply of plankton could be off and that could be a possible factor in the mysterious die off of young salmon when they enter Puget Sound from their native rivers. Salmon eat plankton and so do the smaller fish that salmon also eat. [...] If there turns out to be a problem, then scientists can start looking for why it’s happening.
    KING5 News Transcript, Aug 5, 2014: When they leave the rivers and enter Puget Sound, young salmon are healthy and hungry — and then they die. Scientists want to know if they’re starving.
    North Pacific Dispatches, Lori Saldana, July 29, 2014: [My friend] coordinates research vessels out of Moss Landing, near Monterrey. He called to ask [...] want to volunteer on a research cruise? So… that’s where I will be for the next two weeks: aboard the R/V Point Sur, helping collect ocean water samples from the Bering Sea off Alaska and northern Pacific, as we cruise back to California.
    Mercury, Cesium, Plankton and Whales, Lori Saldana, July 30, 2014: I completed my first 12 hour data collection work shift [...] we gather water samples and look for plankton and trace amounts of mercury and cesium- the first, a persistent and toxic pollutant, the second, a radiation marker linked to the Fukushima accident.
    North Pacific Dispatches, Lori Saldana, Aug. 4. 2014: [T]his cruise is a bit different: fewer researchers than usual. We have only 15 people aboard, which is considered a skeleton crew [...] The first 36 hours we had research stations every 60-90 minutes [...] Now stations are 2-3 hours apart [...]
    Watch KING 5′s broadcast here

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