{"id":532,"date":"2017-01-11T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:42:36","slug":"fukushima-radiation-makes-landfall-on-us-west-coast-and-it-is-only-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/fukushima-radiation-makes-landfall-on-us-west-coast-and-it-is-only-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Radiation Makes Landfall On US West Coast- And It is Only The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/fukushima-west-coast\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/fukushima-west-coast\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/\"><img title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.realfarmacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/realfarmacy.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-476647819269955608-1\" data-google-query-id=\"CPaN7Na2utECFc9sfgod9zEDRQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5298915\/RF_1x1_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5298915\/RF_1x1_0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5298915\/RF_1x1_0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-54951\">\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/fukushima-west-coast\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fukushima Radiation Makes Landfall On U.S. West Coast- And It is Only The Beginning<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<header>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/fukushima-west-coast\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fukushimamap.jpg\" alt=\"fukushimamap\" width=\"704\" height=\"435\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<h6>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/author\/whitneywebb\/\" target=\"\">Whitney Webb<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>Seaborne Cesium 134, a radioactive isotope released by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, has been detected on the US\u2019 Pacific coast for the first time by independent researchers<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-476647819269955608-3\" data-google-query-id=\"CJfJ7Na2utECFY5ufgodGvEAsw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5298915\/RF_300x250_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/fukushima-radiation-has-contaminated-the-entire-pacific-ocean-and-its-going-to-get-worse\/\" target=\"\">the catastrophic triple meltdown<\/a>\u00a0of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the Japanese government and the plant\u2019s parent company, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fukushima-tepco-power-japan-nuclear-meltdown-apologizes-cover-up\/\" target=\"\">worked to cover up the damage<\/a>\u00a0done and downplay the amount of radiation the disaster had released into the environment. Though the disaster\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/japan-recognizes-first-thyroid-cancer-case-as-fukushima-related-offers-compensation\/\" target=\"\">many impacts<\/a>\u00a0have been suspiciously absent from mainstream media reports in the years since, the radiation pouring out of the plant\u2019s damaged reactors have never stopped.<\/p>\n<p>To this day,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-japan-fukushima-pm-idUSBRE97601K20130807\" target=\"\">300 tons of contaminated, radioactive water<\/a>\u00a0flow into the Pacific Ocean\u00a0<strong>every day<\/strong>\u00a0as many of the leaks can never be sealed due to the extreme heat. Now, nearly six years after the meltdown, radiation from Fukushima\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.environews.tv\/121216-seaborne-cesium-134-fukushima-makes-landfall-us-1st-time-oregon-coast\/\" target=\"\">has made landfall<\/a>\u00a0on the West coast of the United States, signaling a dangerous new era for residents and wildlife along the Pacific coastal region.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Researchers from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/\" target=\"\">the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)<\/a>, a crowd-funded team of scientists, announced yesterday that they had detected, for the first time, seaborne cesium 134 in seawater on the shores of Tillamook Bay in Oregon. The group\u00a0has been monitoring the waterborne radiation as it extends from Fukushima across the Pacific for years. According to WHOI as well as other scientists, cesium 134, a dangerous and carcinogenic radioactive isotope, could only have originated from the Fukushima disaster due to its short half-life, or rate of decay.<\/p>\n<p>The samples themselves contained 0.3 becquerels\/m3\u00a0of the isotope, a relatively small amount that some researchers and corporate media outlets say poses \u201cno risk to humans or the environment.\u201d However,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2011\/06\/29\/radiation-in-our-food.html\" target=\"\">there is no such thing as \u201csafe\u201d amounts of radiation<\/a>, which is particularly true of radioactive cesium as it imitates potassium within the body.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese citizens were also told there was nothing to worry about, despite the fact that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/japan-recognizes-first-thyroid-cancer-case-as-fukushima-related-offers-compensation\/\" target=\"\">cancer rates have spiked<\/a>\u00a0since the incident. The real and unstated danger here is that of bioaccumulation. Bioaccumulation refers to the gradual build-up over time of chemicals in an organism, absorbing the substance at a faster rate than it is excreted.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that Fukushima radiation has reached the US, those living on the West Coast or eating fish from that region could be at risk if they consume radioactive water or fish as all consumed cesium would remain in their body, continuously causing damage until it is excreted.<\/p>\n<p>Children are said to be especially at risk. Another reason why there is cause for concern is that these samples were actually collected in January 2016 and not tested until recently, suggesting that landfall may have happened earlier than thought. This, in turn, would also mean that higher levels of cesium as more of Fukushima\u2019s radiation has made contact with Western coastal shores in the months since as researchers have said that radiation will not \u201cpeak\u201d until well after the plume\u2019s initial landfall.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how often the Japanese government, TEPCO, or the corporate media say that radiation from Fukushima is nothing to worry, ignoring a problem does not make it go away. The world\u2019s oceans, particularly the Pacific Ocean, are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/sperm-whales-found-dead-in-germany-stomachs-full-of-plastic-and-car-parts\/\" target=\"\">mass die-offs<\/a>\u00a0of fish and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/the-great-barrier-reef-and-the-real-danger-to-the-worlds-oceans\/\" target=\"\">coral<\/a>\u00a0are signaling that something is horribly wrong. These trends, combined with the devastating effects of over-fishing, led the World Wildlife Fund to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trueactivist.com\/wwf-warns-all-fish-may-go-extinct-within-next-30-years\/\" target=\"\">recently warn that all marine life<\/a>\u00a0could die out before the year 2050, less than forty years from now.<\/p>\n<p>It is incredible that a nuclear disaster that has leaked 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean every day for the last five years could have no effect on the massive environmental crisis unfolding before our eyes. Until Fukushima\u2019s consequences are acknowledged and treated with the concern they clearly merit, we will continue to be unable to understand the true scope of the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.realfarmacy.com\/fukushima-west-coast\/ Fukushima Radiation Makes Landfall On U.S. West Coast- And It is Only The Beginning By\u00a0Whitney Webb Seaborne Cesium 134, a radioactive isotope released by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, has been detected on the US\u2019 Pacific coast for the first time by independent researchers After\u00a0the catastrophic triple meltdown\u00a0of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}