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Topic started on 28-5-2012 @ 03:04 PM by dominicus

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US


news.yahoo.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in pr
(visit the link for the full news article)

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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 03:35 PM by BeliefInReality
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I like how you cut off the quote before it read "still far below safe to eat limits..." Classy move at creating sensationalism.

You can't treat news like a buffet, taking the facts you want and leaving the rest behind.


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:06 PM by dominicus
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I like how you cut off the quote before it read "still far below safe to eat limits..." Classy move at creating sensationalism. You can't treat news like a buffet, taking the facts you want and leaving the rest behind.

Hey instead of assuming I did it on purpose (assuming, which makes an ass out of you and me) you might want to consider that the rest got accidentally cut off. My comp acts werid sometimes, plus the link is there to read the rest.

Hey how about this. I'll get some of those cesium tuna purchased and delivered free of charge to your place and you go ahead and eat it and feed it to your family, w all that extra cesium. Smarty pants mug


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:12 PM by dreamingawake
reply to post by BeliefInReality


The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

The point being is that it is TEN TIMES HIGHER than previously recorded. Tell that to someone 3....6....10 months ago. They would argue there's no radiation present in sea life. Plus that the EPA would be CRAZY to test!


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:12 PM by tinker9917
Originally posted by BeliefInReality
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post by dominicus



I like how you cut off the quote before it read "still far below safe to eat limits..." Classy move at creating sensationalism.

You can't treat news like a buffet, taking the facts you want and leaving the rest behind.


Radiation accumulates

· Accumulation in the Critical body organs: These radiations accumulate in the critical organs of our bodies like liver, thyroid gland, spleen, lungs and bone marrow. For example bone and adjacent bone marrow are body organs vulnerable to plutonium, radium, and strontium. Radio Iodine collects in the thyroid gland.


www.ecosensorium.org...

I have stayed away from seafood ever since the accident.
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:24 PM by BeliefInReality
reply to post by dominicus



I apologize if it was an honest error. I just see that a lot on ATS. People taking bits and pieces from the news to prove their point.

Truthfully I wouldn't eat the fish.

Peace


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:32 PM by boncho
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Just us and nature. Mankind makes me sick!!!!




Just one thing without trying to go off topic... You do realize nature has killed more than mankind could ever hope to right?


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:33 PM by speculativeoptimist
reply to post by boncho


True true, but it may affect the portions recommended for safe consumption. I also wonder if the threshold of damage has peaked yet, in terms of amount of radiation dispersed from that area and/or soaked up by sea life?
< turns fear volume down a tad >


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:35 PM by boncho
reply to post by dominicus

Hey how about this. I'll get some of those cesium tuna purchased and delivered free of charge to your place and you go ahead and eat it and feed it to your family, w all that extra cesium. Smarty pants mug





Bring it to my house. I'll eat it. Since I've been eating Tuna that carries raditation from weapons testing in the 1960's, I think I will manage.

To rule out the possibility that the radiation was carried by ocean currents or deposited in the sea through the atmosphere, the team also analyzed yellowfin tuna, found in the eastern Pacific, and bluefin that migrated to Southern California before the nuclear crisis. They found no trace of cesium-134 and only background levels of cesium-137 left over from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s.



reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 04:40 PM by boncho
Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
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post by boncho


True true, but it may affect the portions recommended for safe consumption. I also wonder if the threshold of damage has peaked yet, in terms of amount of radiation dispersed from that area and/or soaked up by sea life?
< turns fear volume down a tad >


Well, I'm pretty sure most of us have known for quite a few decades to limit fish consumption. And it has nothing to do with nuclear fallout as it does have to do with coal power waste and fossil fuel extraction, among other things:



The Japanese love their fish, and probably eat too much of it. A balanced diet between fish and meats will cause you no harm at all if the levels are within the safety thresholds.

While it stinks that we nearly destroy our environment with our energy needs, there is no alternative at the moment. And mother nature itself does enough damage on its own, it doesn't need our help. Time to invest more into new energy ideas..
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reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 07:54 PM by stanguilles7
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While I agree that many embrace sensationalism i's worth noting, though, that that 'safe to eat' level is based on levels which the US and Japanese Government RAISED immediately after Fukishima.

Nonetheless, considering blufin Tuna have had traces of radioactivity in them for DECADES, especially from the US's nuclear testing in the pacific, I havent eaten the stuff in years.


reply posted on 28-5-2012 @ 07:59 PM by Fromabove
Originally posted by dominicus

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US


news.yahoo.com
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in pr
(visit the link for the full news article)

edit on 5/28/2012 by tothetenthpower because: --Mod Edit--BAN Requirements--Please Use EXACT Headline.


Some couple of months after the Japan quake, my wife went to buy fish at the store. All the stuff from the Pacific was on sale and the man tried to get her to buy it. She said no, it didn't look good. He asked why. She told him it would probably glow in the dark.

Anyone buying anything out of the pacific right now while the nuke poison continues to spill into it is not thinking it through.




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