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(Elizabeth Renter)
If you listen to Tepco and Japanese officials, you are bound to be
confused about how bad Fukushima’s lasting effects really are. One
moment they say everything is under control at the Fukushima nuclear
plant, and the next they’re admitting radiation levels are 95% higher
than originally stated. One would have to be awfully trusting or awfully
ignorant to think the radioactive water spilling into the ground and
eventually the sea wouldn’t spread throughout the world. The West Coast
of Canada and the US is already seeing some effects.
Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water is spilling into the Pacific
Ocean. The amount in the ocean and the global water supply is growing
every single day, and ultimately impacting wildlife and our food supply.
Whether you live on the West Coast or in the middle of the country,
this should concern you as it will eventually affect us all.
Here are just a few signs that Fukushima radiation is here:
1. Tuna caught off the coast of California are contaminated with
radiation. One test that studied 15 tuna found that all 15 had radiation
contamination above and beyond what is normal for that area. Cesium-134
and cesium-137, which the fish were contaminated with, does not sink to
the ocean floor, but rather contaminates the sea at all levels where
fish swim through it, ingest it, or eat organisms that have already
ingested it. Interestingly, the scientists who tested the fish didn’t
expect to find contamination, and were sadly proven wrong.
2. Something is causing herring to bleed from their gills, bellies,
and eyeballs, according to Canada.com. It’s believed these symptoms
could be a sign of viral hemorrhagic septicemia that could be spread
into salmon and other fish varieties. While not proven to be linked to
Fukushima radiation, there is little doubt the radiation could be
impacting immune function of the fish, leading to higher rates of
disease.
3. Sockeye salmon populations at historic lows. Recreational and
non-aboriginal fisheries in an area of British Columbia have been shut
down due to record low numbers of sockeye salmon. Fukushima radiation
may be to blame.
4. Radiation off West coast is expected to double in coming years.
Projections from German oceanographers estimate radiation levels from
Fukushima will cause continued increases in West coast contamination
over the next 5 to 6 years.
5. Fish imported from Japan is already contaminated. The Vancouver
Sun tested fish imports from Japan and found cesium-137 at alarming
rates, contaminating 73% of mackerel, 91% of halibut, 92% of sardines,
93% of tuna, 94% of cod and anchovies, and 100% of the carp, seaweed,
shark and monkfish.
6. Radioactive plume expected to reach U.S. coastal waters soon. A
large plume of radiation is expected to begin flowing into the coastal
waters in the beginning of 2014 and continue throughout 2016. If we’re
only thus far seeing the tip of the iceberg, what’s to come could be
truly frightening.
7. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline.
At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of
the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist
for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally,
less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the
past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
declared an “unusual mortality event.”
8. We could see very high levels of cancer along the West coast due to contaminated fish consumption.
“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of
radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” Daniel
Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa
Cruz, told Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of
cancer from ingestion of fish.”
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