Fukushima Status?

[rick benjamin]

An expert, no. But know enough to know when smoked bubblegum is on the menu.
Anybody can become a bonafide expert.
Somebody, somewhere, knows less than me. Makes me an expert, right?
Good to know some facts.
Books are a great way to learn from smart folks.
After Boy Scouts, and turning 18, I took Civil Defense courses on Radiological Monitoring.
That brought up questions that required some serious reading at libraries.
I read "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn, and others to get answers.
But I'm not good in math, so I couldn't prove stuff. All this before computers and Internet.
Three Mile Island
Chernobyl
San Onofre
Fukushima
Unwelcome truth isn't good for business, gov. hence, secrets.
As much as we wish it weren't so, we aren't entitled to the truth.
Journalists, detectives, try to reveal secrets.

So the more you know, the more you can decide if it's smoke or bullbubblegum.

I decided a way long time ago that Fukushima was seriously bad, and that there was no place to hide.
Same as Chernobyl or Mt Pinatubo or Krakatoa.
The Hawiians on Kawai were fatalistic as hell when I was there in 2011, they have nowhere to go too.

Get a book (if you can) "Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Kresson Kearney
It contains a wealth of information about atomic stuff.
Build your own dosimeter. Tin can, silk thread, piece of foil.

To quote a character in a John Ringo book, "We are so screwed!"
Happy new year!
Regards
Rick

 

[Burt Gummer]

Fukushima failure: Decontamination system stops functioning ? RT News

 

[stratbastard]

Makes me grateful for some of the stuff I purchased BEFORE this disaster... cases of canned albacore tuna as a part of my meat supply, and bottles of potassium iodide.

 

[Burt Gummer]

Ahh who cares ... you can't tell if a tuna has four eyes and two tails when it is compressed into a can!!

 

[stratbastard]

That's a fact LOL! But I like not having to run a Geiger counter over every can before I consider eating it. Just the usual mercury seasoning in these. Speaking of which, anyone see the photos of the dead co-joined whale calves found off the west coast?

Ahh who cares ... you can't tell if a tuna has four eyes and two tails when it is compressed into a can!!

 

[Burt Gummer]

 

[rick benjamin]

Mexican fishermen find conjoined gray whale calves | Fox News
Rare Conjoined Gray Whale Calves Wash Ashore?Could Be First for Species
Conjoined Gray Whale Calves Discovered In Mexico's Laguna Ojo de Liebre [PHOTOS]

 

[Hook686]

the company plans to decontaminate all radioactive water stored in the tanks by March 2015

I wonder how they plan to do this. Maybe they will boil all the water adding strong acids to be sure all the material is dissolved. Then you could add compounds that to form a radioactive precipitate. Then bury the radioactive precipitate somewhere. Probably dump it in the ocean. I wonder how much radioactivity would be left in the water after such a chemical process. Ionizing radiation cannot be 'decontaminated', as it is in elemental form.

 

[stratbastard]

Gotcha, here's one.
Never Before Seen Conjoined Gray Whale Calves Discovered Off West Coast - Fukushima fallout? » Never Before Seen Conjoined Gray Whale Calves Discovered Off West Coast Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

 

[PiratePast40]

I wonder how they plan to do this. Maybe they will boil all the water adding strong acids to be sure all the material is dissolved. Then you could add compounds that to form a radioactive precipitate. Then bury the radioactive precipitate somewhere. Probably dump it in the ocean. I wonder how much radioactivity would be left in the water after such a chemical process. Ionizing radiation cannot be 'decontaminated', as it is in elemental form.

 

[billdeserthills]

I got one too:
Is Fukushima radiation contaminating tuna, salmon & herring on the coast of North America?
The answer is Yes

Is Fukushima Radiation Contaminating Tuna, Salmon and Herring On the West Coast of North America? | Global Research

This is older but related

FDA Refuses to Test Fish for Radioactivity ... Government Pretends Radioactive Fish Is Safe Washington's Blog

this is from April, 2011 so maybe the FDA is doing their job-now?

 

[PiratePast40]

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[Hook686]

There is NO safe dose of nuclear radiation.

True, so true. A good read, very extensive, is Dr. John Gofman's, 'Radiation and human health'. See John Gofman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[U201491]

We are also being blasted by one of the largest solar flares right now also.

 

[Burt Gummer]

 

[U201491]

This is a good report also.

 

[Sun195]

Heard on the radio...

Scientists Say Stop Worrying About Fukushima Radioactivity In Fish

Not a problem...

Delvan Neville, a PhD candidate in Radiation Health Physics at Oregon State University, has tested dozens of samples of albacore tuna for radioactivity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s intervention levels for cesium 134 and cesium 137 is 1200 becquerels per kilogram. The highest levels he’s seen in his albacore, of both cesium 134 and cesium 137 combined, is 1 becquerel per kilogram - a level so low that his device couldn’t pick it up until he concentrated the samples.

Or, maybe a problem....

There is radioactive material from Fukushima making its way across the Pacific Ocean and it has already reached the West Coast in small amounts. The largest concentration of radioactive water released during the nuclear meltdown is moving in a plume across the middle of the Pacific, but models project that the majority of the radioactive water will sink or be pushed west again before it hits the U.S. Scientists are still debating how high those radioactivity levels could be

Or, maybe not...

Kim Martini says here on the West Coast, scientists have found very low levels of cesium from Fukushima:

“It’s about 20,000 times less than drinking water standards. And so what we like to say is it’s detectable but harmless.”

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I have survey meters and rad warning meters and so far at Lacey, WA no alarm signs

 

[ATCclears]

...makes you go "Hmmmmm?".

Activist Post: If Pollution From China Affects The West Coast How Come Pollution From Fukushima Doesn?t?

 

[DeadEyeMcGoo]

Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times - TEPCO

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-levels-underestimated-143/

TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter &#8211; both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter.