☆Ise-no-Kamikaze☆☆Move The Wind for The Justice☆: Fukushima, a disaster that could have been prevented

2013年4月6日土曜日

Fukushima, a disaster that could have been prevented

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Why We Don't Need Nuclear Power

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? (Matt 6:21,26)

September 23, 2009

Being Here and Now

Faced with oil depletion and global climate change, many people feel the challenge and urgency of finding solutions that will allow us to meet our energy needs. Although there is plenty of coal left, those potential CO2 emissions would push us well beyond the orange threat level and into the red highest-risk zone, past the tipping point (450-500 ppm) where total manmade CO2 begins to exceed the natural amount, and the actual CO2 in the air would be more than twice what’s natural. Confronted by this constraint,some who have faith in engineering suggest that nuclear energy is a good solution for meeting our needs. But there are many reasons we don’t need nuclear powerplants.

One reason we don’t need nuclear energyis because uranium is also a limited nonrenewable resource. And its mining, refining, construction, operation, and disposal all require substantial amounts of petroleum fuels, and are all accomplished by devices and processes which are largely ill-suited to electric power. And of course the disposal problem is nowhere near a solution.

But there is an even better reason why we don’t need nuclear energy. Fortunately, the human race can be happy, healthy, and comfortable without oil, coal or nuclear energy. We can live well using just the daily and seasonal energy allotted to us by the Sun which energizes the ecosphere, and by Spirit which (you may trust) enlivens the Earth. While this may seem risky to us who are currently well ensconced in the fossil-fuel culture, what we could lose is not as important as it seems.

The truth is that technologies and techniques old and new all entail diminishing returns. For example, consider the refrigerator paradox. Refrigerators, which diligently keep our food cold and fresh, are nonetheless foiled by our laziness when we always buy more than we can use because we can put it all in the fridge for later. Inevitably, some of it always ends up as moldy sludge in the back of the crisper. The fact that you can put it in the compost pile is not a good enough reason for buying food grown so long ago and far away when it could have been perfectly well composted where it was.

Another reason we don’t need nuclear energy is because we matter as much to Spirit within the Earth as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field. We were created here by means of evolution. We belong here. We have our own place in the world, and no one else’s. We are a part of Gaia. So we can live here like we’ll live forever, and also as if we may die tomorrow. And as a species we can live near enough to forever, even though each human could die tomorrow. This kind of wisdom can counterbalance the knowledge of Good and Evil, and its fruits which contain both. I don’t think there would be much wisdom in living forever in these bodies.

Those religious principles and practices which nurture our higher selves, and which restrain our self-righteousness and other weaknesses, help us find this kind of wisdom and spiritual stamina. Turning away from more childish and narcissistic religious ways is a great way to create an opening for one’s higher self, and is the kind of action that sidesteps reaction. Maslow’s physical/emotional/thoughtful/spiritual hierarchy of needs is a great piece of continuing revelation which helps each person create a full and balanced life. And we can always do unto others as we would be done unto, which may include considering another’s wishes from their point of view as well as our own.

Every morning when we get up and go to work, we think of ourselves as discrete beings, individuals living out there in the world outside of our skin, without really noticing our bodies’ constant exchange with the world outside of our skins, trading of air, water, food, matter, and energy in both directions. The world moves inside us as much as we move around inside of the world.

Distracted by life’s ordinariness, hypnotized by TV, our failure to notice ordinary blessings helps us to forget what really matters. Why else would we trust nuclear power plants--more engineering for diminishing returns--rather than the sun, the rivers, and the trees, which after all must be the same sun, and the same kind of rivers and trees, as graced Eden. We don’t need oil, coal or nuclear energy to meet our needs for clean air and water, healthy food, and protection from bad weather. We do need an Earth which is healthy, and we need an ecology with plenty of bugs, frogs, trees, etc., all of whom definitely don’t need any more pollution from oil, coal or nuclear, or their artifacts and byproducts.

We don’t need these extra, anachronistic fuels because Spirit, immanent throughout Mother Earth who yet endures despite our abuse, breathes life into the Garden we must live in. And if we matter as much as the birds and beasts of the field, then surely we can gather our share as need be. For we can have our share just as they can. After all, our death rate is always the same as theirs—one per person. And in fact we cannot have our share unless all others have theirs, because without fields, trees, bugs, and birds there would be nothing for us. We each fear there might not be enough for my, er, our individual needs, especially later. But I don’t need more than my share. And we don’t need more than our share. There will be enough for whatever number of people is right for the world, in all the small places in the huge Earth where people eat and sleep. We are one of many kinds of creatures in the Garden. And people can only live if the human race can live within its means.

We won’t need nuclear powerplantswhen we can create in ourselves the Faith that God as Spirit which inspires the Earth will know the natural homes and niches for the peoples of the Earth. And our share of the food and water will be enough for all creatures and families to live together in this community which is the world. We are kin with the birds of the air, with the lilies whose raiment is more glorious than Solomon’s, and with the grasses which are thrown into the fire. We can live as their kin. We can share niches, symbiotically improvising fractal bio-networks on the gifts of sun, air, water and food that bless and nourish us all. We can just live in each present moment, alive to each piece of Now. You can’t cross the same river twice.

Now of course our human Now contains what has happened, ishappening, and implies what may happen. Living in this moment means awareness about the ways that the past supports the present, and how the future awakens the moments as they follow one another. Just as musicians play one sound at a time, while having the whole song in their mind from beginning to end. And while the song is built on pieces of the eternal Now, each playing can only happen once, and becomes a bit of the particular history of that particular song.

And one clock-second is a small local moment, while a day is a deeper one. Deeper yet are moments of moons and years. Together these cornerstones of time cradle us in fundamental rhythms of light and dark, hot and cold, wet and dry, forming an eternal impartial and sustaining Moment. Within this living moment certain events have happened to happen and others have not, so that some aspects of Now are more particular and less inevitable, like the particular creatures which evolution happened to create, or the actual meals made from certain plants and animals.

Perhaps, if I can Be Here Now, I am as close to Eden as makes no difference. In the story about the eviction from Eden, we hear about the Tree of Life, and also the forbidden Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil with its fatal fruit. Eve was tricked into thinking that this knowledge would make her wise, rather than, as it turned out, afraid and ashamed. We must be afraid of death if we are willing to buy too much insurance, like building nuclear power plants just in case our children might want to use so much energy someday. And we must be ashamed and distrustful of our bodies if we have to cover them up with itchy fig leaves and live like we’re not in them. But we are also the natural animals who were created in the male and female image of God in the first chapter of Genesis. We can reclaim this birthright if we wish.

After Adam blamed Eve for his decision, God made him work to take care of her and the kids, so no more carefree hunter-gathering. Then we get further from Eden when the farmer son (Cain) kills the herder son (Abel). And before you know it, we have factory farming and famine. But you can’t push the river. And when you can live by going along with the river, why resist? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. But abstention from needless efforts generates no reaction. We can choose to trust the river of Life. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matt. 16:25)

Can we live in Faith that we each belong to, of, within the world while we are here? Can we trust that there is a place for each of us to be in spacetime? Can we experience our lives so deeply that our experiences, contentment, and joy transcend the calendar? Appreciation for our blessings Now is another reason we don’t need oil, coal or nuclear. (Economic ‘demands’ are mostly about seeing the glass as half-empty.) Can we fulfill our lives by being the best ‘me’ each of us (and each family, town, etc.) can be? Can we confess that denial and meannesses large and small (whether towards ourselves or another creature) contaminate our experiences, and dim our souls even when they ensure longer physical survival?

Another reason why we don’t need nuclear power is because it can cause cancer. One symptom of nuclear energy is the tumors and other cancers directly caused by various atomic bombs and nuclear tests and accidents, as well as by ‘normal’ mining and manufacturing. And nuclear power itself—its philosophy, design and use—is a symptom of an unhealthy society, which like a spoiled child insists on all its demands being met, such as insisting on meeting a desire for extra light or TV by any means necessary.

Cancer is a disease of excessive and disproportionate growth. Many people think our industrial capitalistic system’s preoccupation with quantities of money and financial growth, rather than the humane qualities of complete lives, is an unhealthy and evil dead end.The love of money is the root of all evil. 1Timothy 6: 10 And ours isn’t the only culture which spoils the rich and abuses the poor, feeding disproportionate growth. A society or species which thinks it must keep getting bigger is not contented. It’s not in a harmonious homeostatic equilibrium.

There are some thought-provoking parallels between cancer cells and humans who have been ‘civilized’ by the carcinogenic growth culture. When cells in our bodies become cancerous, they go through a sequence of changes that reflect the stages of the cancer. First, the hapless cell begins to experience biochemical corruptions in its internal communication patterns, typically associated with overall bodily conditions such as acidity, high blood sugar or cortisol, accumulated environmental toxins, etc. Not all cells are equally resistant to molecular toxicities, and concentrations vary throughout the body. After 2-3 internal stages, these pre-cancerous cells’ chemical communication with other cells and with the intercellular matrix also starts to break down. Then there are several more stages where the subtle communication patterns among cells, organs, and the body as a whole, start to go awry. Moreover, the microscopic breakdown accelerates as the biochemical influence of the unhealthy cells adds to the preexisting biochemical stresses. Sort of like global free trade.

There are many ways cancer cells differ from normal healthy ones. One key corruption is in apoptosis, which is the natural time of death for each cell, yielding to its replacement. Cancerous cells somehow refuse this natural pruning, as though each thinks it isthe tissue, organ, or body. Actually, we all have cancer all the time, as individual cells here and there succumb to any of the stressors listed above. But successful cancer cells somehow evade our natural immune defenses, which in healthy people usually nip the selfish cells in the bud. Eventually, the cancer may become malignant, and then the tumor (which is after all just a symptom of the underlying unhealthy conditions) appropriates its own blood supply, depriving and displacing normal cells. At some point in this process, the cancer becomes noticeable on our macrosopic level, and often fatal. According to traditional healing principles, your body is always speaking to you in its own way. And if you ignore its whispers (little aches and pains) it will begin to speak more and more emphatically, with symptoms becoming increasingly acute, until it eventually has to shout out with a debilitating or fatal illness such as cancer.

Similarly, nowadays many people in many societies experience various kinds of corruptions in autonomy and communication, within themselves, with others, and with societal institutions. Schools or churches where many children learn to obey rather than think, and are poorly protected from abusive authorities or peers, can be harmful to individuals just as stress or acidity are harmful to our cells. And our nation and species is as greedy for resources as any malignancy.

Curiously, though the fruit of the tree tasted of both Good and Evil, men’s obsession with Evil seems more evident than their devotion to Good. Devotion to fearing inevitable death displaces Living, Now. Is blaming women for (their fear of) Evil a semiconscious ruse so they can get most of the Good for themselves? But the original motivation for getting the goods is to give them to women, as part of the courtship rituals where mates evaluate fitness. However, it’s easier for men to forget that fitness is more than just getting a mate.

Andgender polarization sabotages solutions.Women’s internalized repression prevents many from reclaiming the deep quiet yin power that grounds and centers men’s desires. True women’s liberation happens in the hearts and minds of women, and it is not about working jobs like men but about reclaiming our power as sisters at the heart of community and our responsibilities to every woman’s children. It is the birthright of soldiers’mothers to veto war. It is the role of mothers to care for and manage families and farmsteads, and to make sure that economic activity best meets a community’s actual needs. And it is the birthright of all to know and balance in ourselves the maleness of fight or flight and the femaleness of mending and tending.

And nowadays, the health and sustainability of families, gardens, and farms require tenacious attention to crucial and elemental issues which are far afield from standard home economics. Such issues may be a very long way from our own hearth, like nuclear powerplants and bombs, yet they are as near as some fraction of one’s lamplight. Issues such as how much energy we really don’t need when you get right down to it. “Don’t be nice, be real;” in other words, be true to yourself while being considerate of others.

The true stories of some miraculous cancer healings almost always involve a radical change in the patient who won’t wait another minute to immediately drop everything else they have been doing and start working 100% on their heart’s desire, no matter how short the doctors say that time will be. After all, the future hasn’t happened yet, and 100% can get you in the River. Can one’s bio-electro-chemistry be so altered by such epiphanies that one’s cancer cells then start choosing cooperative behavior? (Even if the cancer cells somehow know they will die then?) Can being true to your soul, reclaiming your integrity, actually be so healthy, even deeply and quietly pleasurable? What is your heart’s desire?

So unity with Nature may mean simply trusting in our Earth’s diverse niches, nests, and nooks in the web of life. Trust can allow us to see niches that would be invisible to one who is ashamed and afraid rather than simply aware and alert. So it is in our power, as individual cells in the body of the world, to Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the care thereof. (Matt.16:34)

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The Sermon On The Mount

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?"

Matthew 6:26, 27

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福島第一原発　現場ﾘﾎﾟｰﾄ　藤井ｷｬｽﾀｰ報告　2013-03-06

公開日: 2013/03/06

福島J・ヴィレッジから藤井貴彦が中継。福島第一原発では1日に3000人近くの作業員が働いている。4号機の使用済みの燃料棒を取り出せば安全な状態に向かうが、1、2、3号機は廃炉までに40年かかるとされている。

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New Unbelievable Pictures of Fukushima

アップロード日: 2011/04/09
Radiation Fallout In Milk Drinking Water ABOVE EPA LEVELS In 13 U.S. New World Order Agenda 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYj35X...

*Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements

[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years

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HQ Incredible views of Fukushima Daiichi reactors damage

アップロード日: 2011/04/19

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Strontium/high levels of Cesium Found in Central Tokyo/TEPCO says 'Nuclear

アップロード日: 2011/11/24

Due to the efforts of a citizens watch group Strontium has been found in Central Tokyo, as well as high level of Cesium. Also, TEPCO has announced that they can provide plenty of power to Japan without the use of nuclear power.

Article about Strontium and Cesium in Central Tokyo
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-...
TEP++CO announces They Don't need nuclear power
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/te...
Science Ministry admits 8 percent of Japan covered in radiation pollution.
http://enenews.com/govt-over-30000-sq...

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http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-update-day-257/

Fukushima Update

Nuclear News from Japan

Fukushima Update – Day 257

November 23, 2011

Radioactive Strontium Found in Central Tokyo / ex-SKF / November 21, 2011 /
A citizen group did the soil survey of three locations in central Tokyo, and had the soil samples tested for radioactive cesium and strontium. All three had both.

Summary of reporting by Yasumi Iwakami, independent journalist:

Locations and amounts of radioactive materials:
Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station, Koto-ku:
Radioactive cesium (134 and 137 combined): 19,126 Bq/kg
Radioactive strontium (89 and 90 combined): 44 Bq/kg
Yurakucho Station, Chiyoda-ku:
Radioactive cesium (134 and 137 combined): 20,955 Bq/kg
Radioactive strontium (89 and 90 combined): 51 Bq/kg
Front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Chiyoda-ku:
Radioactive cesium (134 and 137 combined): 48,176 Bq/kg
Radioactive strontium (89 and 90 combined): 48 Bq/kg

It’s a poetic justice that the amount of radioactive cesium is the highest at METI. I hear TEPCO’s headquarter building in Tokyo also enjoys rather high radiation.

Iwakami cautions that radioactive strontium may be confirmed to have come from Fukushima only after the detailed analysis at a laboratory that can separately measure strontium-89 and strontium-90. The presence of cesium-134 seems to prove that at least radioactive cesium found in the soil samples is of Fukushima origin.

I believe there is only one or two laboratories in Japan that does that; one of them is the laboratory that TEPCO uses for the radionuclide analysis (Japan Chemical Analysis Center).

It looks like the national government may make a comment or two on this discovery later, some people are hoping that the government does. What would the government say? Let me guess… How about “No immediate effect on health”, and “We should only worry about cesium, forget the rest”.

By the way, you may recall the discovery of radioactive strontium on the rooftop of an apartment building in Kohoku-ku in Yokohama City in October. There has been no response from the city to the citizen who measured it, and no action from the city whatsoever on removing the highly radioactive sediment from the rooftop or decontaminating.

Other News:

“Huge steam explosions” if nuclear fuel hits water – ENEnews.com
Expert: “I’m not ruling out a nuclear bomb-type explosion” at Fukushima – ENEnews.com
WATCH: Suspected damage to fuel assembly racks in Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 – ENEnews.com
Gov’t: Over 30,000 sq. km in Japan “blanketed by radioactive caesium” – ENEnews.com
2 high-profile Fukushima studies ‘edited’ by pro-nuke James Hansen – ENEnews.com
Gov’t says nearly 1/10 of Japan has been contaminated by Fukushima – ENEnews.com
Contaminated Water from Fukushima Crossing the International Date Line – ex-SKF
Tepco officially admitted they don’t need nuclear power – Fukushima-Diary
Namie Town is 33 times worse than Chernobyl – Fukushima-Diary
March of radioactive pollen – Fukushima-Diary
Acute lymphatic leukemia news caster Otsuka: 30% survival chance over 5 years – Fukushima-Diary
Radiation Levels In Fukushima Relatively Safe, According To Study – MNT

Editorial:

Fundamental gov’t review of Monju reactor and nuclear policy needed – Mainichi Daily
Fukushima still looking for effective approaches to decontamination – Denki Shinbun
Post-Fukushima ‘anti-radiation’ pills condemned by scientists – Guardian
Fukushima accident raises spent fuel concerns in U.S. – Reformer

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Fukushima, a disaster that could have been prevented

公開日: 2012/03/15
Fukushima Ceremonial Vigil at Indian Point Nuclear Facility, Buchanan, New York. March 11, 2012.

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BREAKING NEWS: US Preparing for Large Scale Radiation Leak

アップロード日: 2011/04/06
U.S. team's mission is to help SDF, Yomiuri Shimbun, April 4, 2011:

... According to sources, the U.S. team will also prepare for unexpected contingencies, such as a large-scale radiation leak from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

About 10 members of the U.S. Marine Corps' Chemical Biological Incident Response Force arrived at U.S. Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Saturday as an advance party. They arrived on a U.S. transport plane from Maryland.

They will be joined by two similar units scheduled to arrive Sunday and Monday. In total, the response force will deploy 155 personnel to Japan.

The team comprises six squads, with specialties such as detecting extremely dangerous levels of radiation, search-and-rescue operations in areas contaminated by radiation and decontaminating people exposed to radiation. ...

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Fukushima: Timeline, Facts, & Implications for Nuclear Power

アップロード日: 2011/04/05
As the aftermath of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami has unfolded, CoE alum Margaret Harding has been called upon by NBC, FOX News, CNN, the New York Times, and many others to explain and help bring clarity to the situation.

Margaret Harding has 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry - she spent many of those years at GE Nuclear Energy, departing as Vice President - Engineering Quality. She's now a consultant to the nuclear power industry where she advises clients on a wide variety of opportunities and issues.

This video is a lecture given by Harding on the campus of Iowa State University, March 30, 2011.

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Fukushima Nuclear disaster Update; media cover-up, or just Ignorance, kevin

公開日: 2013/01/15
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/te...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushim...
http://youtu.be/-sCTDftgx8U
http://youtu.be/o1jUFNyZvHQ
http://youtu.be/5yrB1xKVOXQ

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-pacific-ocean-will-not-dilute-dumped-radioactive-water/31200

FUKUSHIMA: Pacific Ocean Will Not Dilute Dumped Radioactive Water

According to Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report:

By Washington's Blog

Global Research, June 01, 2012

Washington's Blog 1 June 2012

The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean.
Remember, the reactors are “riddled with meltdown holes”, building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is a pile of rubble.
The whole complex is leaking like a sieve, and the rivers of water pumped into the reactors every day are just pouring into the ocean (with only a slight delay).
Most people assume that the ocean will dilute the radiation from Fukushima enough that any radiation reaching the West Coast of the U.S. will be low.
For example, the Congressional Research Service wrote in April:

Scientists have stated that radiation in the ocean very quickly becomes diluted and would not be a problem beyond the coast of Japan.
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U.S. fisheries are unlikely to be affected because radioactive material that enters the marine environment would be greatly diluted before reaching U.S. fishing grounds.

And a Woods Hole oceanographer said:

“The Kuroshio current is considered like the Gulf Stream of the Pacific, a very large current that can rapidly carry the radioactivity into the interior” of the ocean, Buesseler said.
“But it also dilutes along the way, causing a lot of mixing and decreasing radioactivity as it moves offshore.”

But – just as we noted 2 days after the earthquake hit that the jet stream might carry radiation to the U.S. by wind – we are now warning that ocean currents might carry more radiation to the at least some portions of the West Coast of North America than is assumed.
Specifically, we noted more than a year ago:

The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.
As AP notes:

The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.
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“All this debris will find a way to reach the West coast or stop in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a swirling mass of concentrated marine litter in the Pacific Ocean, said Luca Centurioni, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Here is what the North Pacific Gyre looks like:

NPR reports:

CNN said that “the Hawaiian islands may get a new and unwelcome addition in coming months — a giant new island of debris floating in from Japan.” It relied in part on work done by the University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center, which predicts that:

“In three years, the [debris] plume will reach the U.S. West Coast, dumping debris on Californian beaches and the beaches of British Columbia, Alaska, and Baja California. The debris will then drift into the famous North Pacific Garbage Patch, where it will wander around and break into smaller and smaller pieces. In five years, Hawaii shores can expect to see another barrage of debris that is stronger and longer lastingthan the first one. Much of the debris leaving the North Pacific Garbage Patch ends up on Hawaii’s reefs and beaches.”

Indeed, CNN notes:

The debris mass, which appears as an island from the air, contains cars, trucks, tractors, boats and entire houses floating in the current heading toward the U.S. and Canada, according to ABC News.
The bulk of the debris will likely not be radioactive, as it was presumably washed out to sea during the initial tsunami – before much radioactivity had leaked. But this shows the power of the currents from Japan to the West Coast.

An animated graphic from the University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center shows the projected dispersion of debris from Japan:

Indeed, an island of Japanese debris the size of California is hitting the West Coast of North America … and some of it is radioactive.
In addition to radioactive debris, MIT says that seawater which is itself radioactive may begin hitting the West Coast within 5 years. Given that the debris is hitting faster than predicted, it is possible that the radioactive seawater will as well.
And the Congressional Research Service admitted:

However, there remains the slight potential for a relatively narrow corridor of highly contaminated water leading away from Japan …
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Transport by ocean currents is much slower, and additional radiation from this source might eventually also be detected in North Pacific waters under U.S. jurisdiction, even months after its release. Regardless of slow ocean transport, the long half-life of radioactive cesium isotopes means that radioactive contaminants could remain a valid concern for
ears.

Indeed, nuclear expert Robert Alvarez – senior policy adviser to the Energy Department’s secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999 – wrote yesterday:

According to a previously secret 1955 memo from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission regarding concerns of the British government over contaminated tuna, “dissipation of radioactive fall-out in ocean waters is not a gradual spreading out of the activity from the region with the highest concentration to uncontaminated regions, but that in all probability the process results in scattered pockets and streams of higher radioactive materials in the Pacific. We can speculate that tuna which now show radioactivity from ingested materials [this is in 1955, not today] have been living, in or have passed through, such pockets; or have been feeding on plant and animal life which has been exposed in those areas.”

Because of the huge amounts of radioactive water Tepco is dumping into the Pacific Ocean, and the fact that the current pushes waters from Japan to the West Coast of North America, at least some of these radioactive “streams” or “hot spots” will likely end up impacting the West Coast.

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Tepco Dumps 11,500 Tons of Radioactive Water Into the Pacific

By Washington's Blog

Global Research, April 04, 2011

Washington's Blog 4 April 2011

Kyodo news reports:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday took the unprecedented measure of dumping 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean from a facility at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex to make room for the storage of more highly contaminated water, which is hampering restoration work at the plant.
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Nishiyama also said that it had become necessary to release 1,500 tons of groundwater, also containing radioactive materials, found near the Nos. 5 and 6 reactor turbine buildings out of concern that the water could drown safety-related equipment.

Of course, the government said there was “no major health risk”, even though: