by Brian Lynch, OpEdNews Op Eds, 8 January 2013
……. The massive media
coverage following the initial disaster has fallen nearly silent. Some
frustrated environmental advocates have suggested that there is a media blackout.n
July of last year there were major stories about Fukushima and the plume of
radiation reaching across the Pacific Ocean towards North America. On July 16,
2012, Deborah Dupre of the Examiner reported the following:
“As hair falls out of a Fukushima victim’s head, a new German study reports that North America’s West Coast will be the area most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years, an “order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan, according to a new German study followed by a former New York Times journalist going inside the no-entry zone and reporting radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco’s data.”
The article was accompanied by this scary graphic:
“As hair falls out of a Fukushima victim’s head, a new German study reports that North America’s West Coast will be the area most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years, an “order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan, according to a new German study followed by a former New York Times journalist going inside the no-entry zone and reporting radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco’s data.”
The article was accompanied by this scary graphic:
http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-west-coast-cesium-slam-ahead-hair-falling-out-tepco-data-flaw?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next
The article went on to say: “After 10 years, the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 — 10 -’4) off Baja California,” a new research report states.”
Then, on August 22, 2012, Japan’s NHK News reported that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant detected radiation levels 380 times the government safety limit in a fish caught off Fukushima Prefecture……
We deserve to know more
about what the US, Canadian and Mexican governments are doing to monitor
radiation levels, track distribution rates and study how it may be impacting
our food and water.
Below is a reference to the recently published study.
Science of The Total Environment Volume 438,
1 November 2012, Pages 80—85
Below is a reference to the recently published study.
Science of The Total Environment Volume 438,
1 November 2012, Pages 80—85
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