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Japan Meteorological Research Institute “Contaminated seawater reaches the east coast of Australia and Indonesia”

Fukushima Diary,

September, 2013

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In this session of IAEA, researcher Aoyama from Japan Meteorological Research Institute reported Cesium-137 discharged from Fukushima nuclear plant travels to the east in the Pacific. Then it comes back to the offshore of Philippines and Indonesia.

After it moves to the east in the Pacific again around the equator, it comes down to Tasman sea. The contaminated water current is estimated to come to the east coast of Australia and Papua New Guinea in 0~200m depth of the sea.

This simulation is based on the the pathway of weapons tests deprived Cs-137 in the North Pacific ocean.

 

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/PDFplus/2013/cn207/Presentations/1028-Aoyama.pdf

 

Radio: I’m afraid impact of Fukushima contamination on west coast of N. America will be downplayed, it could impact so much
— Professor: This is a concern (AUDIO)

ENENews,

20 September, 2013

Title: Hour 2
Source: The Simi Sara Show (CKNW AM Vancouver)
Date: Sept. 17, 2013

At 20:00 in

Simi Sara, Host: What concerns me is that efforts will be made [on the west coast of N. America] to downplay the potential impact of this radioactivity because it could impact so much, people — what they eat, essentially the economic problems that it might cause. I’m afraid everything will be downplayed.

Timothy Mousseau, Professor of biological studies at the University of South Carolina: This is a concern, and of course there a strong tendency to want to be very conservative until proven otherwise. […]

All we can say for sure right now is that there’s enormous quantities of materials being put into the ocean and this is continuing as we speak. It’s going to continue for some time to come, and if we don’t pay attention and don’t get a handle on exactly how much and where its going, then it could be problem for some of us in the future [...]

They’re just sampling here and there to make sure on average things look ok, but  it’s such an impossibly large problem at this point and so the easiest way to deal with it is to ignore it as much as possible and that just isn’t going to help us in the long run.

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