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Professor: Just 1% of usual number of baby California pelicans; “Nearly complete failure to breed”; Only 20 newborns in area where 10,000 expected — Expert: ‘Flabbergasted’ by what’s happening in Malibu, “I’ve never seen anything like that” (AUDIO)

Published: May 28th, 2014 at 5:00 am ET By ENENews

KPCC, May 27, 2014: Tens of thousands of California brown pelicans have shown up at the Salon Sea months earlier than usual [...] to roost in spots inland from their normal nesting areas. [...] Dan Cooper, a biologist who monitors birds at Malibu Lagoon, said he first noticed the birds’ strange schedule in mid-April. “I was just sort of flabbergasted at seeing 3,500 brown pelicans resting in Malibu Lagoon,” Cooper said. “I checked my notes, and I have numbers in the hundreds, but I’ve never seen anything like that.” Failed nesting season [...] the majority of brown pelicans have given up the attempt for the year. [...] Scientists say a lack of fish food sources, such as sardines and anchovies, has caused the widespread nesting failure.
Transcript

• Dan Cooper, biologist hired to monitor birds in Malibu lagoon: “There were hundreds of adult brown pelicans roosting there.”
• KPCC: That was strange because at this time of year most adults should be nesting and raising young on offshore islands, not loafing around on our beaches. [...]
• Cooper: “It’s been shown that when adult brown pelicans start showing up in spring in Southern California they’re birds whose nests have failed.”

At 2:30 in

• KPCC: [Daniel] Anderson is a professor emeritus at UC Davis. He’s been traveling down to Baja for the last 46 years and he just got back from his annual trip last week.
• Daniel Anderson, U. of California, Davis professor emeritus: “I was assessing the status of breeding populations in the major part of the breeding range.”
• KPCC: Major is right, 80-90% of all California brown pelicans breed in Mexico. [...]
• Anderson: “It’s been almost a nearly complete failure to breed, which is quite unusual”
• KPCC: Anderson estimates that Baja pelicans have reared about 1% of the young they normally would.
• Anderson: “At one island that we study, Isla Salvatierra, which would normally have 8,000-10,000 young, only had like 20 young.”

At 3:45 in

• KPCC: Having given up on nesting this year [the pelicans are at the Salton Sea east of Palm Springs, 100 miles inland --] months earlier than normal. [Kathy] Molina says you can hear the difference.
• Kathy Molina, biologist: “This should be just a cacophony of Caspian terns, and gull-billed terns and skimmers. They should all be coming in with food, feeding their chicks, vocalizing to their mates or their chicks. This is really quiet.”

Full broadcast available here

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Japan Scientist: We gave butterflies food from Fukushima… then, they died; Deformities get worse with each generation — TV: “Truly horrifying… it doesn’t really even look like a butterfly anymore” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

Published: May 29th, 2014 at 8:36 pm ET By ENENews

Vice on HBO, Season 2 Episode 10, May 24, 2014 (at 5:30 in):

• Dr. Joji Otaki, lead researcher, University of Ryukyus: We collected houseplant leaves from Fukushima, and those leaves are given to [butterfly] larvae collected from Okinawa… Those larvae aresupposed to be healthy. But they ate contaminated food from Fukushima. Then we see what happens.
• Vikram Ghandi, Vice: What happened?
• Otaki: They died.
• Ghandi: Dr. Otaki’s experiments have shown the truly horrifying effects contaminated food can have on living organisms.
• Otaki: You can see wrinkled wings.
• Ghandi: It doesn’t really even look like a butterfly anymore.
• Otaki: We found that mortality rate and abnormality rate of the 2nd generation is much higher — even worse in the 3rd generation.
• Ghandi: The evidence contaminated food has increasingly worse effects over the course of generations is especially scary since one of Fukushima’s primary industries is agriculture.
• Kazuya Tarukawa, farmer in Sukagawa 50 miles from Fukushima Daiichi: We had been growing produce that measured 3,000 [Bq/kg] without even knowing it. Selling such produce to the markets made me feel severely guilty.
• Ghandi: His father was consumed with guilt.
• Tarukawa: He hung himself from the tree.

Watch the HBO broadcast here

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Top Science Journal: “Time bombs” at WIPP nuclear site? “High alert over risk of new explosions” in hundreds of plutonium-contaminated drums — AP: 4 years may be needed just to seal off area where drums stored — Experts go down to check if ground ‘still stable’ (VIDEO)

Published: May 31st, 2014 at 2:30 pm ET By ENENews

Nature, May 28, 2014: Nuclear-waste facility on high alert over risk of new explosions — US repository scrambles to seal off barrels [...] Time bombs may be ticking at the United States’ only deep geological repository for nuclear waste. US authorities concluded last week that at least 368 drums of waste at the site could be susceptible to the chemical reaction suspected to have caused a drum to rupture there in February. That accident caused radioactive material to spill into the repository and leak into the environment above ground. [...] To mitigate the threat of further exploding drums, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in Santa Fe issued an order on 20 May giving the US Department of Energy [...] until 30 May to come up with a plan to “expedite” the sealing of panel 6 and part of panel 7. [A reaction] blew the lid off of the container [an official cautioned,] “It is not yet known how, or if, the reaction created the rupture in the drum(s)” [...] The DOE added that current assumptions and precautions about the hazards of operating the WIPP are being “evaluated and revised”.
AP, May 31, 2014: Feds say it could take years [...] to seal off hundreds of potentially dangerous containers at its troubled underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a filing Friday. [...] the department gave broad ranges that indicate it could take a minimum of about 100 work weeks — and possibly twice that long — to secure the rooms at the now-shuttered plant where more than 350 containers of toxic waste from decades of building nuclear bombs at Los Alamos National Laboratory is stored. [...] A Department of Energy spokeswoman declined to comment on the estimated time frame [...] A canister shipped from Los Alamos to the Waste Isolation Pilot Project has been linked to the [Feb 14, 2014] release, and officials are investigating whether hundreds of other barrels from Los Alamos that are currently stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Los Alamos and in West Texas are at risk of releasing radiation. [...] There are still 57 barrels on the campus, which officials have repacked into special containers and are now storing under a dome with 24-hour monitoring and fire-protection systems.
DOE WIPP UPDATE (pdf), May 29, 2014: Geotechnical experts also conducted underground inspections at several locations to make sure the ground was still stable.
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AP: Drastic plunge in baby California pelicans — Zero born in multiple study areas — Expert: “The bottom dropped out”; From 1,000s to 10 or less, unknown why it’s occurring

Published: June 2nd, 2014 at 7:59 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 89 comments

University of California (Davis), June 2, 2014: California brown pelicans’ breeding numbers are in drastic decline this year [which] could indicate that an El Niño event could occur sooner than expected, or that other factors are imperiling the once-endangered species. The search for food — mostly anchovies, sardines, and other small, schooling fishes — resulted in thousands of brown pelicans flocking to food hot spots along the southern California coast and as far north as Washington this May, about six weeks earlier than expected. [...] The survey [was] completed in late May [...] The scientists found that this year, areas that typically host hundreds or thousands of nesting pairs held only a few hundred at most, and in some cases zero nesting pairs. Low breeding numbers are often associated with El Niño conditions, which bring warmer waters to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. However, this year, the pelicans began showing signs of trouble well ahead of this summer, when El Niño was predicted to begin. Anderson is not sure why this is occurring [...] This spring, when the birds arrived at breeding colonies at all, many arrived late. Of those who nested, many abandoned their nests when they could not find enough food to sustain their stay.
Associated Press, June 2, 2014: Calif. brown pelican breeding population plunges [...] The survey in Mexico’s Gulf of California — where about 90 percent of the pelicans typically breed and raise their chicks — found that areas that typically host hundreds or thousands of nesting pairs held far fewer, and a few places were completely empty, the [UC Davis] statement said. [...] Last fall, scientists said they were concerned that a crash in the West Coast population of sardines might also be starving the brown pelicans.
Survey Findings: At Angel de la Guarda, there were 120 nesting pairs and zero young in 2014, which is less than 2 percent of the past four years’ average [In 2006 there were] 3,905 young on the island. At Isla San Luis, there were 465 nesting pairs producing 16 young in 2014, compared with 5,400 nesting pairs and 5,940 young in 2006. At Isla Piojo, there were 70 nesting pairs and zero young in 2014 [...] compared with 600 nesting pairs and 660 young in 2006.
UC Davis professor emeritus and wildlife biologist Dan Anderson, who monitored brown pelicans for the past 46 years: “That’s what we call a failure, a bust. The bottom dropped out. [...] Populations do decline somewhat during El Niño years, but not nearly as drastically as what we saw widespread this year. During most El Niño events we’ve seen, numbers of nesting attempts drop by at least half to two-thirds, and production goes down, too. But it drops from thousands to hundreds, not to 10 or less.”
See also: Professor: Just 1% of usual number of baby California pelicans; "Nearly complete failure to breed"; Only 20 newborns in area where 10,000 expected -- Expert: 'Flabbergasted' by what's happening in Malibu, "I’ve never seen anything like that" (AUDIO)

http://enenews.com/ap-drastic-plunge...om-dropped-out

Japan TV: Gov’t officials discover nuclear material flowing into ground at Fukushima; Releases thought to be ongoing for months — Expert: “No end” to problems with radioactive waste at plant; Public does not trust what they are being told (VIDEO)

Published: June 6th, 2014 at 11:17 am ET By ENENews Email Article 84 comments

NHK, June 6, 2014: [TEPCO] says more than 3 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from barriers surrounding storage tanks. [TEPCO] made the announcement on Friday [...] TEPCO found that regular patrols have not been conducted in the area near the tanks since March, and that the leakage may have begun then. [...] It detected higher levels of radiation around the area than at other locations in the complex. [...] TEPCO officials say regular patrols did not cover the area [...]
NHK, June 4, 2014: Officials from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Monday found water leaking around 2 of the storage tanks. The tanks contain water with radiation levels above the government-set standards. [...] The water contained 9,800 Becquerels per liter of beta-ray emitting substances. But TEPCO officials said the leaked water had remained inside the barriers. However, TEPCO’s later investigations found that a drain valve had accidentally been left open. [...]
Vancouver Aquarium: Fukushima – A View From The Ocean, June 5, 2014 (h/t Deep13th Nuclear Waste Info): [...] Isotopes such as strontium-90 are becoming of greater concern as they are elevated relative to cesium in the groundwater and storage tanks at the reactor site. [...]
At 50:00 in

• Dr. Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution oceanographer: Japan, in particular, has lost trust in their government — certainly TEPCO, the operators — for communicating the truth [...] They have problems with storage of waste on site, no end — I guess they have designed a cleanup system called ALPS to purify those tanks but they’ve done things just even a few weeks ago to bypass, taking water from the ground… and within a week or two then had to report that those waters were contaminated. There’s a continued series of problems of that site.

Watch Buesseler’s presentation here
http://enenews.com/tv-govt-officials...public-does-no

• Top News

Fukushima is here: ‘ALL Bluefin Tuna Caught In California Are Radioactive’

By DNA | October 10, 2013 33 Comments

Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast
By: Ann Werner
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?
Source :
http://samuel-warde.com

http://topinfopost.com/2013/10/10/fu...re-radioactive

CRITICAL THINKING, EPIC FAIL, HOAXES, NATURAL DISASTERS

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Stop passing these scary stories about Fukushima fish around social media!

by Sharon Hill • September 4, 2013

Much is being made in the news about the Fukushima radiation leakage catastrophe. Yes, it’s bad. It’s troublesome, but it’s currently not global. If it was, we’d be hearing more about it, not from questionable scare-blogs.

First, we saw a graphic of what was said to be radiation spreading across the ocean. That was a myth. It was an old map of wave sizes related to the earthquake-induced tsunami that caused the plant failure. Then, there was a map of fallout. Wrong.

Now, we are seeing scary stories of poisoned ocean populations. Let’s find out more about this. This post appeared on Skeptoid blog and was recommended by a marine biologist, David Shiffman, @whysharksmatter on Twitter as a point by point rebuttal of the Gary Stamper piece that got shared by scared people who are concerned this is an epic catastrophe for the world.

Are Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Really Over? | Skeptoid.

To paraphrase an oft-misattributed quote, pseudoscience can travel halfway around the world while good science is still putting its lab coat on. This would appear to be the case for “At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over,” a hysterical blog post alleging that all fish out of the Pacific will be unsafe to eat forever because of leaking radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

The piece was written by Gary Stamper, who runs “Collapse into Consciousness,” a website devoted to surviving the supposed coming collapse of society. It went up on August 14th, and has been reposted on numerous blogs and Facebook pages since then. It’s clear that a lot of people have read it (Stamper claims it’s gotten half a million views) and become extremely frightened.

Should they be? Is there anything to Stamper’s claims of animals being burned, fish becoming inedible and thyroid cancer skyrocketing?

The short answer is no, there isn’t.

The piece goes on to pick apart some of the “facts” but mostly rumors going around in the media today. There is “hyperbolic hype”, mistakes about leaking radiation vs bomb fallout, factual inaccuracies, conspiracy mongering, warnings about injured and dead animals (even in California where the radiation has NOT reached).

The author of the Skeptoid piece likens the Stamper rhetoric with the Gish Gallop, a rapid fire barrage of words that are so meaningless and illogical you can’t even follow but sound impressive. Get the informed view about this environmental problem before playing a role in spreading misinformation and fear to your friends, family and facebook.

Check out Snopes myth busting on these two related stories.

snopes.com: Nuclear Fallout Map. FALSE

snopes.com: Fukushima Emergency. FALSE

Waves, not radioactive water.

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/09/stop-passing-these-scary-stories-about-fukushima-fish-around-social-media/

“Fukushima, the world’s permanent headache” — Gundersen: It will be bleeding into Pacific for next 100 years — ABC: “Greatest nuclear contamination of the ocean in history… it can’t be quantified… it’s a global issue” (AUDIO)

Published: June 10th, 2014 at 9:55 am ET By ENENews Email Article 90 comments

Radio VR, June 9, 2014: Fukushima, the world’s permanent headache [...] Arnie Gundersen, a veteran nuclear engineer and director of Fairewinds Energy Education: “What the water did do is it went into the ground and is moving downward into groundwater, which will get to the ocean shortly. [...] The site is going to bleed into the ocean for a hundred years. [...] They have contaminated the entire groundwater underneath the site and eventually, all of that water will move into the Pacific.” >> Full broadcast here
ABC Radio (Australia), June 9, 2014:

• Mark Willacy, ABC correspondent: [The ice wall project] shows you just how dire the situation is… This has never happened before… This is the greatest nuclear contamination of the ocean in history… [The amount released into ocean] can’t be quantified. It’s incredible amounts.
• Steve Austin, Host: Don’t eat the fish oil caplets that come from the Pacific.
• Willacy: If it doesn’t work we’re really back to square one… it is the great last hope that Tepco has and, I believe, the government. If it doesn’t work, I don’t think anyone knows how to solve this problem.
• Willacy: It is a global issue.
• Full ABC interview available here

http://enenews.com/fukushima-the-wor...ant-be-quantif

Japan Journalist: Melted nuclear fuel going through Fukushima containment vessels, they don’t even know where the 3 reactor cores went — Senior Scientist: I’m being told Japan may never be able to remove radioactive materials from site; ‘Solution’ may be to leave it in place (AUDIO)

Published: June 10th, 2014 at 3:44 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 67 comments

ABC Radio (Australia), June 9, 2014:

• Mark Willacy, ABC correspondent: Since the accident [at Fukushima Daiichi], the nuclear cores have melted, they’ve gone – leached through some of the pressure vessels and going through what they call the containment vessels… In fact, they don’t even know exactly where those melted radioactive cores are. They know they’re down there somewhere. […] Tepco said “We think one’s eaten through about a meter of the concrete containment vessel, but we can’t be sure.”
• Full ABC interview available here

WBUR, June 9, 2014:

• Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: They can’t get into a lot of those buildings and the core where the fuel rod meltdown occurred. You don’t really know how easy it would be to extract any of the most concentrated materials… The solution then to either entomb, leave in place, or remove can’t be made until you know more. I’m hearing 30, 40, 50 years and really open ended as to whether they can really remove the radioactive materials from the site — Although we have to somehow stabilize. Getting water out of those buildings is important so you can actually make those assessments. In the short term, they’ve got some serious issues with just what’s already been stored and leaking on that site, and helping the public understand what’s going on.
• Full WBUR broadcast here

http://enenews.com/japan-journalist-...ver-be-able-to

Experts: Disease explosion in West Coast sea stars — “Extinction event” is pretty close — “Epidemic of historic magnitude… threatens to decimate entire population” of species in Oregon — Sudden 50-fold increase in recent weeks — Entire ecosystem could be disrupted — “We have no clue” (VIDEO)

Published: June 11th, 2014 at 8:13 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 75 comments

North Shore News, May 23, 2014: Mysterious disease is now attacking purple starfish in B.C. [...] “We thought it had stopped,” said Jessica Schultz [of the Vancouver Aquarium.] — More from Schultz: “Certainly possible things will get worse [...] it seems to be coming back in different species [but] I’m not expecting to see an extinction.”
Port Townsend Leader, June 4, 2014 (emphasis added): “This event is greater than we’ve ever seen [...] There’s a good chance we’ll see it take off, more than we have already, up and down the coast this summer [...] I don’t think anybody is considering extinction at this point [...] it will be interesting to see what happens over this next year [...] there could be local extinction” -Melissa Miner, UC Santa Cruz
Times Standard, June 7, 2014: [Wasting disease] was observed in June 2013 in about 20 percent of the Humboldt County [California] sea star population, but appears to have grown significantly worse since then. “We’re seeing upwards of an 80 percent decline,” said Jana Hennessy, a graduate student in [the] marine ecology lab at Humboldt State University [...] “there has been a significant decline in the past year, most notably within the last five or six months [...] A year ago we were counting 160 stars, and a week ago we counted 20, so it’s been pretty devastating [...] half of [the 20] had obvious signs of the syndrome… I think we’re pretty close at this point to an extinction event.” [...] a marine ecologist with California Sea Grant Extension [reported] similar figures from other researchers along the coast. [...] Bacteria, viruses, toxins and pollution have all been suggested as possible culprits [...]
Times Colonist, June 9, 2014: Purple ochre sea stars are facing extinction in Oregon [...] says a report from Oregon State University [as] sea star wasting syndrome has exploded in the past two weeks [...] threatening the state’s entire population of purple ochre sea stars.
Oregon St. University, June 4, 2014: Sea star disease epidemic surges in Oregon, local extinctions expected — Just in the past two weeks, the incidence of sea star wasting syndrome has exploded along the Oregon Coast and created an epidemic of historic magnitude, one that threatens to decimate the entire population of purple ochre sea stars. [...] its loss could disrupt the entire marine intertidal ecosystem. [...] the sudden increase in Oregon has been extraordinary. [...] less than 1 percent of the ochre sea stars in Oregon were affected in April, and only slightly more than that by mid-May. Today, [it's] an estimated 30-50 percent [with some areas at] 60 percent [...] Researchers project that the epidemic will intensify and, at some sites, nearly 100 percent of the ochre sea stars could die. “This is an unprecedented event,” said Bruce Menge [...] Professor of Marine Biology [...] “We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before [...] We have no clue what’s causing this epidemic, how severe the damage might be [...] It’s very serious.” [...] [Prior] outbreaks were associated with warm-water conditions [but] the water temperatures in Oregon “are only at the high end of a normal range,” Menge said.
Watch KVAL’s news segment ‘What’s killing Oregon starfish?’