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Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences show that radiation on US West Coast could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan. [...]
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Sunday it had found highly radioactive water dripping from a pipe connecting two coolant tanks at one of four radiation hotspots.
The discovery came hours after Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said late Saturday that radioactivity at one of the other four sites measured 1,800 millisieverts per hour -- a dose that would kill a human left exposed to it in four hours.
The reading was 18 times higher than a recording at the same place taken on August 22, though the company said the first measurement was done with equipment that could only reach up to 100 millisieverts.
A TEPCO spokesman said the radiation of 1,800 millisieverts was largely beta ray with weak penetration force, which workers can easily block by wearing protection jackets.
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has found new radiation hotspots near tanks storing toxic water, with one reading peaking at 1,800 millisieverts per hour - a potentially lethal dose.
Originally posted by jimmyx
I guess I won't be taking any trips to Hawaii, and if this crap keeps pouring out, land values will certainly drop. If I owned land there this might be the right time to sell. maybe this is the great die-off of the human race, just in slow motion. shorter life spans, miscarriages and low fertility rates, combined with massive sterility.
Originally posted by thedoctorswife
reply to post by winofiend
Its depressing, but as a species, I think its curtains for us. Those with the power to do anything (us, the first world), are more interested in the new iphone or whatever. It makes me think of the film "the day the earth stood still", and the Cleese character saying to Keanu's character, and im paraphrasing, " when the human race gets to a precipice, faced with extinction, we can change".
Im not sure, in this situation, we will have the opportunity to do so.
Originally posted by MariaLida
MONUMENTAL Troubles at Fukushima. From BAD to WORSE update 8/31/13
Published on Aug 31, 2013
Report: U.S. West Coast to be hard-hit by Fukushima ocean contamination — North Pacific Gyre transporting radioactive material to America
August 23rd, 2013 at 9:15 am ET
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences show that radiation on US West Coast could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan. [...]
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Model simulations on the long-term dispersal of 137Cs released into the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima
1 GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
2 NOAA/PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, USA
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Study shows Fukushima nuclear pollution becoming more concentrated as it approaches U.S. West Coast — Plume crosses ocean in a nearly straight line toward N. America — Appears to stay together with little dispersion (MODEL)
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for supposedly an honorable nation of people, they sure have managed to bring disgrace to the whole planet, imagine explaining to other world beings what our planet is like currently, how embarassing to have to tell them about Japan, and Syria not to mention all the religion and racilism ongoing feuds,,, and how the governments of each country treats it's civillians,,, Japan owes 7 billion people compensation, if they manage to stem the flow, of course if they don't it won't matter will it?
Originally posted by winofiend
reply to post by jimmyx
Wouldn't that be a kicker. We probably won't notice a lot. But imagine... no one to come after us.
The earth would simply decay and then renew.
All the dreams, hopes, aspirations, desires, imaginations, cares, possibilities... gone.
I feel nothing when I think of this. that should concern me. Hopefully when tomorrow comes I have renewed vigour. Right now, I feel very disassociated from it all...