This
has been posted here before in a different before. I am reposting
this lecture by Steven Starr
JAPAN,140
MILLION DEAD WITHIN 5 YEARS
Every
bluefin tuna tested in the waters off California has shown to be
contaminated with radiation that originated in Fukushima. Every
single one.
Over
a year ago, in May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a
Stanford University study. Daniel Madigan, a marine ecologist who led
the study, was quoted as saying, "The tuna packaged it up (the
radiation) and brought it across the world's largest ocean. We were
definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see
it in every one we measured."
Another
member of the study group, Marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony
Brook University in New York State reported, "We found that
absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium
134 and cesium 137."
That
was over a year ago. The fish that were tested had relatively little
exposure to the radioactive waste being dumped into the ocean
following the nuclear melt-through that occurred at the Fukushima
Daiichi plant in March of 2011. Since that time, the flow of
radioactive contaminants dumping into the ocean has continued
unabated. Fish arriving at this juncture have been swimming in
contaminants for all of their lives.
Radioactive
cesium doesn't sink to the sea floor, so fish swim through it and
ingest it through their gills or by eating organisms that have
already ingested it. It is a compound that does occur naturally in
nature, however, the levels of cesium found in the tuna in 2012 had
levels 3 percent higher than is usual. Measurements for this year
haven't been made available, or at least none that I have been able
to find. I went looking for the effects of ingesting cesium. This is
what I found:
When
contact with radioactive cesium occurs, which is highly unlikely, a
person can experience cell damage due to radiation of the cesium
particles. Due to this, effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
and bleeding may occur. When the exposure lasts a long time, people
may even lose consciousness. Coma or even death may then follow. How
serious the effects are depends upon the resistance of individual
persons and the duration of exposure and the concentration a person
is exposed to
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