Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen discusses the risk to the US West Coast population from the ongoing releases from Fukushima Daiichi. Should we be worried about walking by or swimming in the Pacific? How safe are California’s beaches? What about eating Pacific seafood?
http://fairewinds.org/media/fairewinds-videos/west-coast-radiation-exposure-risks
I have been following anything that Arnie Gundersen has been reporting since the May 2011 Fukushima event took place. Everything Arnie says about radiation is true; especially his warning to not eat Pacific seafood.
Your exposure to radiation can be corrected by how long you remove yourself from a radioactive environment. But most people work or go to school, eat the local food, and drink the local water — which are continually being contaminated by radioactive fallout.
He is also correct to point out that we have been here before when the USA and other Countries were testing Nuclear weapons on the Pacific; however, these were finite events with limited fallout. Fukushima will be belching radiation into the Northern Hemisphere for decades. So, Arnie is also correct when he points out that there is nowhere to run to escape this radiation fallout.
However, it’s what Gundersen isn’t saying that concerns me. He doesn’t mention the fact that there isn’t any seafood in the Pacific to catch because 90% of the sea life lays dead on the Ocean floor .
I suspect that Gundersen was forced to make a public statement to downplay this potential life extinction event and remove panic. Too late… the Genie is already out of the bottle, and nobody including a respected Nuclear Specialist like Arnie Gundersen can hide the blood soaked wound of our demise with a band aide of half-truths.