Arnie Gunderson, of Fairewinds Associates - a really good place for analysis of the nuclear disaster in Japan if you want facts and reliable, non-inflammatory conjecture - has posted a recent analysis of the elevated radiation readings around the Fukushima plant. In this 7 minute video, he points out that the surface contamination recently measured in the ocean 30 - 40 km from the power plant is higher than the beta radiation level which defined a "hot spot" after the Chernobyl disaster.
And on the Green Action Japan web site, a member tweeted last night that TEPCO found trace amounts of neutron radiation at the border of the nuclear power plant. Neutron - you know, the kind of radiation that makes other particles radioactive when it comes in contact with those particles. I'm looking for verification of this, and will post it if I find it.
The radiation from the buildings is sinking, not going into the atmosphere. Bad bad bad for people and non-human animals in Japan. But also, the ocean. The ocean! Plankton, fish, mammals that eat the radioactive fish.... What will become of the Pacific at the end of all this? Did we really have to be smacked over the head so violently by our own damned toxins (gulf oil spills, radioactive contamination, tsunamis destroying fishing villages) to get the hint that people overfish, overuse, and overstress the oceans? I guess so. Will we stop? Probably not until the oceans are near death.
Unless we can, like the earthquake, tear things apart with the force of our grief.
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There is no sustainable fishing possible in the oceans at this point. They are getting too close to exhaustion. They are very stressed. When they snap, suddenly, there will be no fish in the catch at all. The radiation is going to make the marine life ill, just like people. There will be tumors and mutation. This is not going to be a good time for the oceans. But yet, the discussions revolve around the economy. What about the profits? How sad is this pathology humans have.
TataChris
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