Japan's radioactive water is about to reach North American shores. Nuclear Dilution vs the Movement of Radionuclides through the Biosphere and Humans. Source 1. The Bioaccumulation of contamination in plankton, US Armed Forces, 1955 Page 59. Quote “The problem of radioactive particles falling into the ocean raises the question of their availability to this portion of the biosphere. Plankton normally found in sea water are consumed in large quantities by fish. These plankton concentrate mineral elements from the water, and it has been found that radioactivity may be concentrated (Page 60) in this manner by as much as a thousand fold. Thus, for example, one gram of plankton could contain a thousand times as much radioactivity as a gram of water adjacent to it.
The radioactivity from these plankton which form a portion of fish diet tends to concentrate in the liver of the fish, and, if sufficiently high levels of contamination are encountered, could have a marked effect upon the ecology of an ocean area. end quote Source 2. End quote. Life itself concentrates radioactivity. Source 3. Apr 21, 2011. Plutonium releases from Fukushima Diiachi. Impact to US West Coast from Fukushima disaster likely larger than anticipated, several reports indicate. Замеры радиационного излучения вокруг зоны эвакуации Фукусимы специалистами Гринпис US government environmental monitoring agencies have either declared as safe, refused to comment on, or – say several independent researchers – vastly understated what impacts, if any, this could have for America’s western coastal population.
Significant omissions in data reporting and hobbling of radioactive monitoring systems, say many, make it seem unlikely that hard government facts will be forthcoming to support evidence presented by independent researchers. The new scientific paper, which will be published in November 1 edition of the journal Science of the Total Environment says that its research “clearly demonstrates how little dissipation [of radionuclides] occurred [between March 12 and 16] due to the nature of the rapid global air circulation system.” New West Coast helicopter patrols raise alarm ‘Tokyo levels’ of hot particles in Seattle Other reports concur “We are not prepared for this. Multi-decadal projections of surface and interior pathways of the Fukushima Cesium-137 radioactive plume. Highlights Cs-137 plume strongly diluted by July 2011, reaches American coast by 2014.
Mode water formation and persistent upwelling affect Cs-137 concentrations. Cs-137 enters the deep ocean and exits the North Pacific in the next 30 years. Sensitivity to uncertainties in the source function and to interannual variability. Abstract Following the March 2011 Fukushima disaster, large amounts of water contaminated with radionuclides, including Cesium-137, were released into the Pacific Ocean. Keywords Radioactive tracers; North Pacific; Ocean circulation; Mode water formation; Fukushima nuclear disaster; 3D Lagrangian modeling Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. EGU_Matthias_A0 - EGU07Matthias.pdf.
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