The Pacific Ocean – in fact almost one-third of the Globe – is thought to have been contaminated from the leak out from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seeking to promote the peaceful use of Nuclear Power, in 2011 established with the Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) Member States, a joint IAEA Technical Cooperation (TC) project in the region of the Pacific Ocean. It was established after the Fukushima disaster when a tsunami caused by a major earthquake on 11 March 2011, disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident. As a result a large quantity of radioactive material was admitted into the Pacific Ocean.
Of no surprise, this caused great concern to countries based around the Pacific Ocean due to the potential economic and environmental implications. The TC project’s aim was therefore, to monitor the presence of radioactive substances in the marine environment.
The first annual review meeting held in August 2012 demonstrated predictive hydrodynamic models and they predicted that the strong current, known as the Kuroshio Current and its extension, had the ability to transport the radioactive substances across the Pacific Ocean in an easterly direction. However, the concentration of radioactivity was not as high as originally thought.
© pressWhile these are trace amounts, the danger of radioactive material in any amount cannot be underestimated. However, the experts say that these levels detected cannot really harm us, they are still lower than those we could be exposed to from a dental x-ray for instance.
Having said that, every possible exposure, in any small amount, adds up. The problem with nuclear energy and fallout, the radiation and radioactive materials can travel far and wide with the wind and with the sea. Therefore, we should aim on a global level to keep these levels at zero. In any event the continuous monitoring of oceans will need to be conducted, according to Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
What Buesseler says should be taken on board beyond 2015, particularly since the advice from the IAEA is to dump even more contaminated water into the sea. This is apparently more desirable than holding it in tanks. Any discharge will have to be controlled and continuous monitoring would be needed, in particular near the plant to improve data reliability. This is causing concern and not just to state authorities. Consider the fishermen. Every time they catch fish in the ocean, the fish need to be tested for radioactivity.
Before any further dumping is done, the IAEA and Tokyo Electric Power Co., who control the plant, need to consider not only the environmental impact but socio-economic impact as well. Livelihoods could be affected as well as long-term health of the region and global community eventually.
“The problem with nuclear energy and fallout, the radiation and radioactive materials can travel far and wide with the wind and with the sea.”
Which is exactly why the jews love it so.
“1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
A third of the world’s ocean? That must mean 2/3’s then, since they always understate things.
I wonder how much of this is fear mongering. Are those people in Japan who were in harm’s way dying in large numbers from the radiation? And where is the giant island of debris from the tsunami that was supposed to hit the California coast a year after the disaster? They said 200,000 homes, boats, tractors, cars and even feet in sneakers – in all, 25 million tons of debris in an area the size of California was headed this way. As of August 12, 2016, only one documented item – an old boat – has hit the California Coast, according to “Federal Officials”, though 35 items were seen in OR and WA. If this is even true…
I actually kind of like the radioactive tuna I eat now.
Being off the grid.
I can save energy.
Because I don’t need the lights on when I take a dump late at night.
I just wipe where I see the glow in the dark.