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Caused by radiation?

Massive radiation plume from Fukushima heading toward U.S. West Coast according to a scientific report

Thursday, September 11, 2014 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) According to scientific modeling systems used by the European Union, the radioactive ocean plume released by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is likely to remain a massive clump of radioactivity until it slams into the West Coast of the United States in late 2017.

On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, knocking out power and cooling capability to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Within three days, multiple meltdowns and reactor explosions had taken place. By March 25, massive amounts of radioactive material were observed leaking directly into the Pacific Ocean.

In 2013, the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway used computer models to project the movement and dispersion of this radioactive plume. Although the results of this study have been cited in official Chinese government documents, they have not been widely publicized.

Levels to remain high through at least 2026

The researchers used two separate scenarios to model leakage of radioactivity from the Fukushima plant into the Pacific. The first scenario assumed continuous and constant leakage for 20 days, while the second assumed continuous and constant leakage for one year.

Although delivering differing estimates of total radiation, both models concluded that the pollution would remain in a relatively unified mass and take the same path across the ocean until crashing up against western North America. Both models show the plume colliding with the U.S. West Coast and beginning to spread out starting around late 2017, with a maximum concentration of radiation hitting the coast toward the end of 2018.

Following this collision, the plume is projected to disperse and spread north, south and west, with portions of it eventually crashing back into East Asia sometime between 2021 and 2026. Throughout this entire time period, however, the area of greatest radioactivity concentration will remain positioned along North America's West Coast.

The researchers noted that the model does have certain limits, namely its failure to account for ocean ecology (which may alter the flow of radioactive material) and atmospheric fallout (which may increase the concentration of radioactive material in additional regions to those predicted by the model).

Cleanup efforts in shambles

More than three years after the disaster, the Fukushima plant remains crippled, contaminated and uncontained. Massive amounts of radioactive water continue to pile up at the plant and leak into the surrounding earth and ocean. Thus far, all plans by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to stem the flow of this water by freezing the ground surrounding the plant have failed. More than 120,000 people evacuated from the area in 2011 are still unable to return to their homes, and criminal gangs have infiltrated cleanup operations.

In recent weeks, TEPCO has also been hit with a number of legal setbacks. A court ordered the company to pay nearly half a million dollars to the family of a woman who committed suicide just two months after being forcibly evacuated from her home near Fukushima. In August, a citizens' judicial panel called for three former TEPCO executives to be prosecuted for their role in the disaster. TEPCO is also being sued by four workers seeking $600,000 in unpaid wages from their work in the plant's clean-up and decommissioning operations.

"A year ago, the prime minister told the world that Fukushima was under control. But that's not the case," said Tsuguo Hirota, lawyer for the plaintiffs. "Workers are not getting promised hazard pay and skilled workers are leaving. It's becoming a place for amateurs only, and that has to worry anyone who lives near the plant."

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200-pound giant squid found off Matagorda

BY HEATHER ALEXANDER : SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 : Updated: September 10, 2014 4:22pm

Photo By Twitter/KTRK

• The 200 pound monster was found dead floating in water 100 miles off Matagorda, according to KTRK.This is only the third time anyone has encountered a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico.
  

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A giant squid measuring 10 feet long and weighing 200 pounds was found floating dead in the Gulf Sunday according to reports.

According to KTRK, the enormous creature was found by Michael Belvin, 25, and his friends while they were out fishing about 100 miles off Matagorda.

"It's crazy what's out there in the ocean with you," Belvin told the station, adding that it took him and his friends several minutes to haul the giant onto their boat.

"It's insane. Huge, and pretty cool," Belvin told KTRK.

The giant squid is the world's largest invertebrate but is still largely a mystery, according to National Geographic. They live in very deep water so are very difficult to study.

The largest ever found was almost six times the size of the one caught off the Texas coast, measuring 59 feet long and almost a ton in weight.

It seems that this is only the third giant squid ever found in the Gulf of Mexico. Back in 2009 scientists studying the diet of sperm whales came across the remains of a 20 foot long squid.

"As the trawl net rose out of the water, I could see that we had something big in there — really big," said marine mammal scientist Anthony Martinez at the time. "We knew there was a remote possibility of encountering a giant squid on this cruise, but it was not something we were realistically expecting."

The first reported discovery was in 1954 when remains of a giant squid were found floating near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

In other giant marine creature news, a huge shrimp measuring 18 inches long was caught off the Florida coast last week.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/200-pound-giant-squid-found-off-Matagorda-5746447.php

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It's raining down a huge amount of radiation.

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Ocean temperatures off San Diego and along much of the West Coast are unusually warm — approximately 5 to 7 degrees above average.

Head Scientist: “I used to think I knew” why mystery epidemic is decimating millions of West Coast starfish, “but now I don’t” — Toxic pollution now suspected — Fukushima ‘not dismissed’ as cause — California Professor: Significant levels of fallout got into our coastal food web… marine life exposed… It’s not good

Published: September 10th, 2014 at 9:00 am ET By ENENews Email Article 179 comments

NOAA, Sept 5, 2014: Disease is destroying sea stars along entire Pacific coast of N. America
Skagit Valley Herald, Sept. 7, 2014: “It certainly is shocking… from 51 sea stars with none of them affected to all of them affected, and then gone.”
The Straight (Vancouver), Aug 20, 2014: [Sea] stars that normally crammed into every rock gully along the beach were missing. Not one starfish… empty black crevices… devoid of life. This scene is repeated up and down the West Coast… Divers report piles of white goo and pieces of starfish arms on the ocean floor… [T]o suddenly disappear is more than disconcerting: it is truly shocking. The speed… is mystifying. Yet the great die-off has not attracted that much media coverage… what else might follow tomorrow?
Portland Monthly, August 2014: In the spring, [Oregon State Prof. Bruce Menge] says, the tide pools were lined with thousands of healthy sea stars… The sickly few that remain hang limply
Laguna Beach Independent, Sept. 4, 2014: Scientists [say] pollution is surfacing as a suspected cause… [UC Santa Cruz biology professor] Pete Raimondi… attended a sea star “mortality event” conference… and left confused… Water pollution, scientists agree, is usually localized and doesn’t affect an entire coastline or an entire species. Usually… Scientists are debating [if] a secondary infection took over because the sea stars were weak due to environmental pollutants… Raimondi reported that pollution is being considered because no pathogens were detected in the animals until a secondary infection took over… [The] findings raised a question, Raimondi relayed… if the bacteria is always present… why would it lead to an epidemic now?
Prof. Raimondi: “I used to think I knew, but now I don’t… AIDS would be a good example for a human analogy… what kills you off is usually a secondary infection… I left [the conference] much more uncertain than when I walked into the room.”
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sept. 1, 2014: “It’s been very mysterious in a lot of ways,” said Raimondi, as he discounted, but did not dismiss, possible causes. Unlike previous wasting events, this one occurs in warm and cold water, near and far from pollutant discharge… Ocean acidification and de-oxygenation are possible factors, yet sea stars are exposed to natural variations in acidity and oxygenation and they have never before been observed to exhibit this extent of wasting. To date, no one has found Fukushima radiation where the syndrome is observed.
So “no one has found Fukushima radiation where the syndrome is observed”? Significant levels of Fukushima fallout have been found in ecosystems along the Pacific coast from Canada to Southern California. Additionally, the massive amount of radioactive water being transported across the ocean from Fukushima was detected along the N. American shores in June 2013.
Prof. Steven Manley, Cal State Univ: “We measured significant… levels of radioactive iodine… it may have affected certain fish… the big question was, is another major isotope that came over in the cloud, cesium 137, present in the kelp, too? It has a half-life of 30 years [and may still be there]… Most of this fallout comes from the atmosphere primarily in rain… Radioactivity is taken up by the kelp and anything that feeds on the kelp will be exposed… [it] got into the environment… In fact, the values that we reported for iodine probably [are an] underestimate [and] could be two to three times more… it enters the coastal food web and gets dispersed over a variety of organisms… It’s not a good thing, but whether it actually has a measurable detrimental effect is beyond my expertise.”
See also: EPA: Models show “greater potential impact” to US West Coast from Fukushima-contaminated rainfall than from radioactive water crossing the Pacific Ocean — California sea water with over 10 Million pCi/m3 of iodine-131 found in sample squeezed out of seaweed

Published: September 10th, 2014 at 9:00 am ET

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2. BBC: Scientist surprised at how much higher radiation levels are in some parts of ocean from Fukushima, it’s a ‘mystery’ — KPBS: Fukushima radiation is just going to become ‘a way of life’ for us” — California Professor: It’s certainly going to be in the environment, it just doesn’t go away (AUDIO) February 10, 2014
3. ‘Marine Mystery’ in California: “Toxic outbreak threatening marine life” — Birds falling from sky, sea lions convulsing — “Worst they’ve ever seen” — Toxin hits record level, almost 1,000% above gov’t limit — Heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure (VIDEO) May 3, 2014
4. California Professor: “Serious threat” to our ocean, environment and society from ongoing Fukushima radiation releases — U. of California: “Unprecedented events with global consequences… fallout is far from over” — Scientist: ‘Risky’ (PHOTO) May 27, 2014
5. PHOTOS: Sea star began “ripping itself into pieces” — Like a horror movie — AP: Deaths from Alaska to S. California — Biologist: Related to an environmental change? “An early warning that we aren’t picking up on?” — Professor: “None of us had ever seen anything like this before” November 4, 2013

Following this collision, the plume is projected to disperse and spread north, south and west, with portions of it eventually crashing back into East Asia sometime between 2021 and 2026. Throughout this entire time period, however, the area of greatest radioactivity concentration will remain positioned along North America's West Coast.

And this is going to continue for MANY years to come....as long as there is tons of radiation pouring into the ocean. The west coast will probably be ate up with cancer in a few years and of course they will be blaming it on everything BUT the real cause.....and the band plays on

Mass Pacific Starfish Die Off Linked to Warming Oceans

by Kristine Lofgren, 06/24/14





For nearly a year, scientists have been scrambling to understand why starfish in the Pacific Ocean have been dying in droves. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that many scientists expect entire species of sea stars to be extinct in the near future. Finally, scientists at University of California Santa Cruz have had a breakthrough in understanding why these marine creatures have contracted a horrific disease that causes them to tear themselves apart. The bad news is there’s no easy fix – and the dying likely won’t stop anytime soon.





According to the research, warmer oceans are allowing bacteria and viruses to thrive, which infect sea stars and compromise their immunity. Once a sea star is infected, it becomes vulnerable to the disease, which leaves lesions on their bodies and even causes limbs to detach. Although scientists aren’t certain, it appears that sea stars are contracting the pathogen that causes the disease from the food it eats. When a test group of sea stars were given frozen squid sourced away from the area, those sea stars did not get sick.

Related: Researchers in Oregon Expect Wasting Disease to Completely Wipe Out Starfish Populations in the Near Future

The disease is the biggest die-off that scientists have seen in marine animals, impacting over 20 species along the Western coast with over 40 percent of sea stars showing symptoms. As the summer continues, the problem will likely only get worse and one scientists says that he expects all of the sea stars in the area to die. The biggest hope now is that the younger sea stars will develop a resistance to the disease so that they can survive, but unless that happens, losing such an important predator from the ocean ecology could have serious consequences.

http://inhabitat.com/mass-pacific-starfish-die-off-linked-to-warming-oceans/

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Pacific bluefin tuna
Fisheries group to cut Pacific bluefin tuna catch

By Dennis Normile
10 September 2014 1:00 pm

TOKYO—A multinational organization that coordinates fishing activities in the western Pacific is throwing a lifeline to heavily overfished Pacific bluefin tuna stocks.

Speaking today at a press briefing, Japanese officials provided details on a plan agreed to last week that aims to rebuild the spawning population by halving the catch of juveniles and limiting takes of mature fish as well. The proposal calls for total Pacific bluefin catches to be kept below the 2002 to 2004 annual average levels and for catches of fish weighing fewer than 30 kilograms—juveniles too young to spawn—to be reduced to 50% of those levels.

Conservation organizations see the proposed limits as a step in the right direction. But they are "far from enough," Wakao Hanaoka, senior ocean campaigner for Greenpeace, tellsScienceInsider. He says that Pacific bluefin tuna stocks have shrunk to just 4% of the historical population, making proper stock management a matter of urgency.

A subcommittee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) agreed to the Japan-sponsored draft at a meeting last week in Fukuoka. The full commission will almost certainly adopt it at a meeting to be held in Samoa starting 1 December, explained Masanori Miyahara, an adviser to the ministry of agriculture who chaired last week's meeting. Reducing the take of juveniles that haven't yet spawned is one key to achieving the plan's initial goal of rebuilding spawning stock biomass—the fish population able to reproduce—to the historical median of 42,592 tons within 10 years. The biomass is now thought to be 26,000 tons, very near its all-time low. "Eating fish before they spawn is very wasteful," Miyahara says.

Miyahara says that 80% of all captured bluefin tuna—prized for sushi—end up in Japan. But rebuilding stocks is an international challenge. Pacific bluefin spawn in waters stretching between southern Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines but migrate to the eastern Pacific, where they mature before returning to the spawning grounds.

The United States and Mexico are major fishers of bluefins. The United States is one of the 26 members of WCPFC and will be bound by the agreement. But Mexico belongs to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, which manages fishing in the eastern Pacific. "Both organizations have to cooperate to realize the conservation of Pacific Ocean tuna," said Hisashi Endo, an official with Japan's Fisheries Agency, at the briefing.

WCPFC member countries will have to develop schemes to ensure compliance with the new restrictions. Japan will monitor catches by its 20,000 artisanal fishers and several dozen large operators, Miyahara says, and will issue a warning when landings hit 70% of the limit. "When the catch reaches 95% we will close the fishery," Miyahara says.

Conservation organizations had hoped for more stringent limits. Prior to last week’s meeting, the World Wildlife Fund had called for the total bluefin catch to be cut by half. Miyahara says they had to aim for something achievable, but the plan, which takes effect in 2015, will be reviewed and could be amended as early as 2016 depending on the state of spawning stocks.

Hanaoka says Greenpeace will continue to push for tighter regulations. But it is also trying to shift market demand toward sustainable seafood. In August, it surveyed 15 leading supermarket chains about their bluefin tuna procurement policies. None of the 13 companies who responded currently restrict purchases of juvenile fish or those caught just before spawning, but Hanaoka says they did find some reason for optimism. Some companies agreed that conservation efforts shouldn't be left just to government action; a few said they were planning on reviewing their procurement practices.

To keep up the pressure, Greenpeace Japan will add an assessment of bluefin purchasing policy to the criteria it uses to rank supermarkets according to their support for sustainable seafood. Since December, the organization has offered a free smart phone application that allows consumers to check if fish on sale are endangered or overfished. It's gotten 10,000 downloads. "We're trying to make supermarkets realize that many consumers are demanding sustainable seafood," Hanaoka says.

http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacif...fin-tuna-catch

Report: Worry over nuclear fuel hitting aquifer under Fukushima plant after melting through concrete — TV: Raging meltdown going on even as we speak… they still don’t have control of 3 melted cores (VIDEO)

Published: September 13th, 2014 at 6:51 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 81 comments

Nuclear Safety In The Age Of Chernobyl And Fukushima, website of Ulrich H. Kurzweg, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, December 10, 2013 (emphasis added): The recent nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan has focused the world’s attention on the safety of nuclear power… The worry at Fukushima at the moment is… some of the cores melting through their concrete supports to come in contact with the aquifer… The accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima are indicating that we can expect such accidents to occur once every few decades or so and this will continue unless one comes up with safer reactor designs.
Professor Michio Kaku (Ph.D. in nuclear physics from UC Berkeley and protégé of Edward Teller the ‘father of the H-bomb’), Library of Congress Science Pavilion of the 2014 National Book Festival, CSPAN, August 30, 2014 (at 27:00 in): At Fukushima in Japan we have a raging nuclear meltdown, three of them — simultaneously — going on even as we speak. Even as we speak, they still have not yet gotten control of three melted cores.
See also: Nuclear Expert: We believe molten fuel already melted through floors of Fukushima reactor buildings, or is still in process of melting through (AUDIO)
And: Scientist: Fukushima nuclear fuel “still melting down… there’s melting happening in the cores” (VIDEO)
Watch Kaku’s presentation here

Published: September 13th, 2014 at 6:51 pm ET By ENENews

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2. PBS: Engineers believe Fukushima’s nuclear fuel melted right through the containment vessels, where it’s contacting ground water — Expert: The fuel “melted down into ground” (VIDEO) March 1, 2014
3. AP: Radioactive material spews into air & sea at Fukushima — Asahi: Exposure levels spike — Nuclear Expert: We don’t even know where 3 melted reactor cores are… it’s not under control at all; Still getting worse 3 years later (AUDIO) March 11, 2014
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5. 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) June 10, 2014