U.S. Media Silent as BBC Confirms: Fukushima Radiation Plume Arriving North American Coast. February 25, 2014 -- (TRN) -- Today, a 60 day countdown has begun until the arrival of Fukushima radiation on the west coast of North America.
The mass-media in the United States remains disgracefully silent despite the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) confirming that a massive plume of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is arriving. California, Oregon and Washington state will begin to get the worst of it -- within 60 days. Folks out there HAVE to prepare, just in case. We tell you how. PLEASE NOTE: This story is causing severe load on our server; the page may take time to load.
The image above, provided by the BBC, shows the "likely" scientific projection of radioactive waste flowing toward the west coast of North America from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Reactor meltdowns and explosions in Japan, which took place in March, 2011. The WHOI scientist described the citizen science effort now under way to record radioactivity in beach waters of the western United States. E) Schools. Radiation Leak in New Mexico: "We've never seen a level like we are seeing" A nuclear waste facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico is the site of an airborne radiation leak.
The high levels of particles were detected late Friday night at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. WIPP is housed at an old salt mine, and toxic waste like plutonium is housed half a mile underground. All of the 139 workers were sequestered on site. WIPP is the nation's first transuranic nuclear waste repository, used to permanently dispose of low-level nuclear waste from government sites around the nation. "These are radionuclides that are of a hazard if inhaled, but it is not the kind of radiation that penetrates, and so the primary concern for the release of this nature is (through) the ventilation passageway and that's why our employees are sequestered in place," said Roger Nelson, a Department of Energy spokesman. The staff members have all tested negative for contamination, and nonessential employees have been cleared to go home.
20,000 Square Miles Contaminated by Fukushima Daiichi Incident. Using mathematical calculations to determine the true radioactive exposure to millions in Japan, a European Union study has determined that just 3 months following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the land area larger than 20,000 square miles around Fukushima was contaminated with radioactive nucleotides.
Cesium and radioactive iodine were among them. As were other radioactive elements, and Canada has now found cesium 137 in their water supply. Sadly,more than 43 million people in Japan were likely exposed to these cancer-causing elements. These radioactive substances still pour into the Pacific to this day, as determined by a team of scientists in Japan. The EU study is clarified by a Science for Environment Policy News Alert. Conservative estimates calculate that over 34000 square kilometers were contaminated with more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter of the two radioactive substances – cesium and iodine. Record levels of radioactivity detected at Fukushima nuclear plant » Prepare To Evacuate! USAF Base Orders 1,200 Radiation Suits In New Mexico – Plutonium Cloud Was 330 MILLION Becquerels.
Mysterious Universe: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site Presents Renewed Threat. Four Sites Where You Can Monitor U.S. Radiation Levels. Citizen scientists prepare to test U.S. West Coast for Fukushima radiation. The crowdsourcing, citizen-scientist program is the idea of Ken Buesseler, a research scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the world’s biggest private-non-profit oceanographic agency.
Buesseler began his career studying the spread of radioactivity from Chernobyl in the Black Sea and has been working with Japanese scientists since mid-2011 to understand the spread of radiation from Fukushima across the Pacific Ocean. Buesseler said in a phone interview from Japan that he was motivated by public concern over radiation from Fukushima and his frustration at the reluctance of the U.S. government to fund a program to measure radiation that is expected to arrive on the West Coast this spring. He said because the radiation levels are expected to be low, federal U.S. officials didn’t consider it a priority. “No one wanted to take responsibility,” he said. Fukushima: Fischen gehen nach dem GAU. Hundeschlittenrennen Iditarod: Geröll unter den Kufen.