Japan Radioactivity Infecting Food
Chain
For almost two years reports from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have
been barely mentioned in any government or media reports. It is almost like the
tsunami and earthquake never happened. Big mistake.
The radioactive leakage, in the form of cesium-137, from the reactor is not
being contained and, if anything, the leakage has increased. The effects of the
radiation are being recorded across the United States by the Nuclear Emergency
Tracking Center. As expected the heaviest effect is being seen along the west
coast but, like Chernobyl's still burning core is affecting the underground
water supply decades later, the Fukushima leakage is going to have a far greater
effect into the foreseeable future.
Whereas Chernobyl's explosion sent out a mass of radiation to affect the
immediate region, the main danger there is the molten core burning its way into
the earth. Fukushima's reaction is releasing 300 tons of radioactive material
daily into the Pacific Ocean. Thus far, Fukushima's measured output of radiation
is 100 times more than Chernobyl's release. But without the bang of an
explosion, there is no headline to be grabbed.
As reported last spring by the Rant, the dead zone in the waters around
Fukushima had reached 38 miles into the ocean. That was a prelude. The leakage
has wrecked Japan's fishing sector locally and that was because the radioactive
pier came ashore in Oregon.
But the real impact was being missed by yours truly until this past weekend
when I had the chance to talk with friends from the Seattle area.
An ocean current, the North Pacific Gyre, is bringing the radioactivity
directly to the West Coast of America and the effects here may ultimately be
more severe than what is experienced locally in Japan because it is here where
the radioactive material is deposited on a wider swath of land. At the very
least the world's food chain will be infected.
As a child I used to visit the Puget Sound seashore on Vachon Island and
pick up starfish. The starfish found today are not solid but more jelly-like. It
is reported food fish like mackerel are being brought on board fishing trawlers
exhibiting severe illness signs such as blood-dripping eyes and open sores. Sea
mammals like polar bears, walruses and seals are experiencing fur loss and open,
running sores according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently.
The list of affected food fish is extreme. This was especially true for
fish originating from Japanese trawlers. Canada reported fish bought from Japan
was highly contaminated. The list is staggering: mackerel (73% of bought fish
infected), halibut (91%), tuna (93%), cod (94%), and carp, shark, monkfish
(100%).
Why isn't this front page news? Simply put, since there is nothing that can
be done, what is the point in reporting it? It is much nicer to look at a
soaring stock market, or the unworkable "fixes" for Obamacare and Washington.
Those are the meat and potatoes of the three-monkey media. But the evil is
there.
The first question for the Seattle friends was 'Why hasn't there been
anything reported about this?' The news, sadly, is available in gory detail, but
it just won't sell so it is discarded.
Michael Snyder wrote an comprehensive article Oct. 23, 2013. He put it on
'The Truth' a website. He outlined 28 signs of the disaster along the west coast
that shows we are in for a very long siege before the radioactive levels
abate--if they ever can.
In Fukushima, it is alleged teams of clean-up crews have gone into the
reactor but not come out. Since there is no reports of what is wrong coming back
from inside, the Japanese are very much at a loss of how to respond. Because of
the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, the plant's damage cannot begin to be
addressed. Meanwhile 300 tons of radioactive material is getting loose every
single day into the Pacific Ocean.
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