DEVASTATION - PACIFIC OCEAN IS NOW A GRAVE YARD TO AQUATIC LIFE!

Submitted by: Phil Bulfinch

CALIFORNIA: FISH "MELTING"

Enormous amounts of Star Fish on the sea floor off the California coast have begun dissolving into mushy piles of white goo.  During an ocean dive Thursday morning, November 7, 2013 off the coast of Santa Cruz, Pete Raimondi [UCSC ecology professor] watched two halves of a broken sea star ravaged by a “wasting syndrome” walk away from each other. Not long after, they would turn into mushy piles of goo, disintegrated by a disease that has so far perplexed scientists. It appears the syndrome is impacting as many as 10 sea star species up and down the West Coast, wiping out entire populations in certain areas.  “They can go from great -- to pieces -- in 12 hours,” said Raimondi. The Pacific Ocean is in the middle of a cooling trend, so biologists are at a loss to explain the outbreak. Others, speaking to Turner Radio Network on condition of anonymity fearing retaliation from authorities, said the cause has already been identified: radiation poisoning.  These biologists have been threatened with losing their jobs if they reveal this publicly.

TUNA: 100% OF SAMPLES TESTED SHOW RADIATION

In addition, out of fifteen Pacific Tuna fish caught and tested from various points in the ocean, one hundred percent tested positive for radiation contamination! Researchers at Stanford University studied samples from 20 blue-fin tuna caught off California between May and August 2012 and said they detected radioactive cesium. They concluded the source of the contamination was the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

If one of the pools collapsed or caught fire, it could have severe adverse impacts not only on Japan … but the rest of the world, including the United States. Indeed, a Senator called it a national security concern for the U.S. "The radiation caused by the failure of the spent fuel pools in the event of another earthquake could reach the West Coast within days. That absolutely makes the safe containment and protection of this spent fuel a security issue for the United States.

Award-winning scientist David Suzuki says that Fukushima is terrifying. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government are lying through their teeth, and Fukushima is “the most terrifying situation I can imagine”. Suzuki notes that reactor 4 is so badly damaged that – if there’s another earthquake of 7 or above – the building could come down. The probability of another earthquake of 7 or above in the next 3 years is over 95%. Suzuki says that he’s seen a paper that says that if – in fact – the 4th reactor comes down, “it’s bye bye Japan, and everyone on the West Coast of North America should evacuate. Now if that’s not terrifying, I don’t know what is.”

Yale University professor Charles Perrow wrote about the number 4 fuel pool this year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. “This has me very scared,” he told the ABC. “Tokyo would have to be evacuated because [the] cesium and other poisons that are there will spread very rapidly.

Perrow also argues: Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site after two rods touch and react, the remaining 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.

Former Japanese ambassador Akio Matsumura warns that – if the operation isn’t done right – this could one day be considered the start of “the ultimate catastrophe of the world and planet”:

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen and physician Helen Caldicott have both said that people should evacuate the Northern Hemisphere if one of the Fukushima fuel pools collapses. Gundersen said: "Move south of the equator if that ever happened, I think that’s probably the lesson there."

Harvey Wasserman wrote two months ago: "We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Should the attempt fail, the rods could be exposed to air and catch fire, releasing horrific quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and possibly explode. The resulting radioactive cloud would threaten the health and safety of all us.

A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries.

Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says full-scale releases from Fukushima “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”

THE MASS MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES IS DELIBERATELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY BLACKING-OUT THIS STORY.  WE AT THE TURNER RADIO NETWORK THOUGHT YOU DESERVED TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

 

http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/110-pat Monday, 16 December 2013 22:44

The level [of deadly radioactive Strontium-90] is now one-million times worse than the levels of Cesium-137, which have been pouring into the Pacific for over 1,000 days, and which is approaching the west coasts of The U.S. and Canada. The half-life of Strontium is 28.9 years and the estimated travel time from Japan to the northern coast of Hawaii and the southwestern Aleutian Islands off Alaska is 1 1/2 years; to North America, around 2 1/2 years.

When it hits those coasts, mass evacuations will be required.

 

This revelation comes on the back of information released by Japan's former Prime Minister, Naoto Kan who revealed at Japan Press Club Luncheon on December 12, who said " [People think it was March 12th but] the first meltdown occurred 5 hours after the earthquake." This means that the government of Japan KNEW there was horrific radiation being released, but did not tell the U.S. Navy which had deployed the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to assist with rescue efforts. As we reported days ago on TRN, 51 Sailors from that ship have now developed Thyroid cancers, Leukemias, Brain tumors and more, just 3 years after engaging in rescue efforts off the coast of Japan subsequent to the earthquake and tsunami which occurred on March 11, 2011. (Story Here)

 

“The world is closely watching whether we can dismantle the (Fukushima) plant, including the issue of contaminated water,” said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “The government is determined to work hard to resolve the issue.”

This is quite a change from previous statements the prime minister has made. In a speech Sept. 7 in front of the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires, Abe stated categorically, “Let me assure you the situation (the contaminated groundwater problem) is under control.” Six days later, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant, disputed the prime minister’s claim at a meeting in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. “We regard the current situation as not being under control,” said Kazuhiko Yamashita, a senior official at Tepco.

Reports are coming in that the North American food supply is already being affected by Fukushima.

Bluefin tuna caught off the San Diego coast is showing evidence of radioactive contamination. This is the first time that a migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity 3,000 miles from Fukushima to the U.S. Pacific coast. It is a nutrition source that accounts for approximately 20,000 tons of the world’s food supply each year.

According to the report published by the National Academy of Sciences, “We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”

“We were frankly kind of startled,” said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/japan-radiation-poisoning-america/

This is an issue of significant importance to the United States since, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. imported almost 45 million pounds of fish from Japan in 2012.

 

There have also been many reports of unexplained deaths among wildlife:

·         Vast amounts of sea stars are “melting” off the west coast of North America

·         Killer whales are dying off the coast of British Columbia

·         There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths due to starvation along the California coastline. The question is: why are they starving? Has the food chain been disrupted?

·         Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores

·         Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low

·         Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs

·         Experts have found very high levels of cesium–137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast, affecting the food chain in a process called “biomagnification”

 

As of now, there has been no direct correlation between these events and Fukushima, but the timing of the events and some contributing factors are giving scientists pause and are giving substance for calls for more studies.

While the evidence may circumstantial at this point, it is enough for countries to take action.