Fukushima Fallout?

zork

zork

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Stumbled across this article on a conspiracy site. Rense.com. The article implicates Fukushima Fallout for the following warming pattern:

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I don't know what to believe. El Nino up into the arctic and greenland area or does this radiation effect hold water? I was actually looking for information concerning increased volcanic activity along the norther part of the northern hemisphere.

Anyone read much about the aftermath of the Fukushima event on 311? The Link
 
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bub
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02/10/15 06:15 AM
Re: Fukushima Fallout?

You self-acknowledge it's a conspiracy site. Therefore... BS.
 
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Here are some more pictures from a French organization that is/was attempting to track the effects of the leak at Fukushima back on 3/11:

http://enformable.com/2011/11/analysis-of-fukushimas-accident-by-french-national-data-center/


Scroll down and notice where the radiation went. It seems to have all gone or stayed in the northern hemisphere and even the last picture shows that it ended up with slightly stronger readings in the arctic region?(although greatly dissipated from just after the accident)
 
Scary. But Zork your wish of a "completely honest assessment" by the US Government are not possible (about anything) in my humble admittedly cynical opinion. Too many $ involved by all parties.
 
The first evidence of radiation has been detected on the coast of Vancouver island, BC in Canada.

http://www.vancouversun.com/technol...from+Fukushima+hits+coast/10949176/story.html

The first small traces of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima disaster have been detected on the B.C. shoreline, but the amounts are so tiny that they pose no danger to human health or marine ecosystems.

The contaminated sample was collected at a dock in Ucluelet on Feb. 19 and found to contain 1.5 Bequerels per cubic metre of Cesium-134, the isotope being used as a marker for radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan.

“Those units don’t mean very much to most people, but for comparison, the maximum allowable concentration that we have in Canadian drinking water, that’s set by Health Canada, is 10,000 Bequerels per metre cubed,” said Jay Cullen, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Victoria and a partner in the research.

“They’re very tiny…. By any international standard or any Canadian standard, the amount of radioactivity that we’re seeing is essentially safe.”

The amount is so small, in fact, that if someone decided to swim for six hours every day for a year in water that contained twice the level of Cesium-134 found in this sample, she would receive a radioactive dose more than a thousand times smaller than she would with a single dental X-ray.
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The amount is so small, in fact, that if someone decided to swim for six hours every day for a year in water that contained twice the level of Cesium-134 found in this sample, she would receive a radioactive dose more than a thousand times smaller than she would with a single dental X-ray.
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That really puts things in better perspective. But "radiation" is a scary word - as is "isotopes" to some degree too, so people hear "trace of radioactive isotopes in the water" and think it's a catastrophe, and if you try to explain that it might not be, you come across as a PR spin job specialist.
 
In reading about radiation, half lives of the varying radioactive substances, the sun, etc, I came across this interesting paper from Stanford(and Purdue) in 2010 that discusses the little known about Neutrinos and their potentially interesting and still up in the air affects on radioactive substances.

My thought was that the water and cesium widely dispersed might be affected by the sun perhaps?Especially since the oceans are thought to have warmed dramatically recently

It turns out that perhaps radioactive substances might be directly affected by little know waves from the Sun called neutrinos but not necessarily how I thought. (it affects the decay rate of their previously assumed, by science, half-lives as a constant!)

Check this out: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html
At minimum we don't know everything about radioactive substances and/or the sun. It will be interesting to watch as Fukushima and the 28ish years of the cesium released from it continue to work their way through the sediment of the Pacific and the creatures that live in it and cycle up through the chain. More to come.
 
Since this topic has to do with radiation and the perspectives of the amount of risk involved with doing various things that might add to your exposure, this chart is pretty cool for reference:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
 
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151008/as--japan-nuclear-childrens_cancer-1ded32614b.html

hmmm

TOKYO (AP) — A new study says children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere, a difference the authors contend undermines the government's position that more cases have been discovered in the area only because of stringent monitoring.

Most of the 370,000 children in Fukushima prefecture (state) have been given ultrasound checkups since the March 2011 meltdowns at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The most recent statistics, released in August, show that thyroid cancer is suspected or confirmed in 137 of those children, a number that rose by 25 from a year earlier. Elsewhere, the disease occurs in only about one or two of every million children per year by some estimates.

"This is more than expected and emerging faster than expected," lead author Toshihide Tsuda told The Associated Press during a visit to Tokyo. "This is 20 times to 50 times what would be normally expected."
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