California, Finland, Canada, Australia Hit By Radiation
The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago.
Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.
The West Coast of Canada is getting hit by debris from Japan … and at least some of it is likely radioactive.
The authors of the controversial study claiming 14,000 deaths in the U.S. so far from Fukushima are now upping their figure to 20,000. I spoke with nuclear health expert Chris Busby about their study, and he said that mortality figures fluctuate pretty substantially in the normal course, and so it is hard to know at this point one way or the other whether their figures are accurate.
And while there is no evidence linking them to Fukushima, Bed Bath and Beyond has recalled radioactive tissue holders after they set off police radiation monitors aboard a delivery truck This may just be an example of the incredibly lax handling of radioactive materials.
And thyroid cancers are – mysteriously – on the rise in the U.S.
But don’t worry: The owner of the Fukushima plant has the plant in cold shutdown, so everything is “under control” … Although temperatures have apparently jumped inside Fukushima’s number 2 reactor, and the Japanese have no idea where the nuclear fuel has gone, so they are drilling a hole into the containment vessel to try to find it.
I fled a career building fission powerplants back in 1975 because of the spent fuel problem not solved BACK THEN. 10,000 years before the spent fuel mellows enough to bury. I would rather shave the left side of my head and join the cult that follows that than ever again put trust in someone so obsessed with an afterlife while cursed with so little respect or appreciation for this one.
Thank you for shedding first hand light on this incideous technology. We are so addicted to our energy intensive lifestyles that we prefer not to know the realities of our consumption of energy. We should shut down every Nuke power plant as an incentive to get serious about alternatives.
What do we learn? Only Russia’s/Chernobyl’s cesium counts in Western media.
“evil empire”… remember?
If TEPCO is a small country like North Korea, the US Air Force has already bombed around. Some how I feel TEPCO is invincible and mightier than the USA, the world’s only super power.
Over at http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/ there’s an account of three consecutive explosions directly beneath fukushima, shallow, 7, and 20k down, also the settling of dust later you’ll have to go back to 5jan ,or earlier to get the full sp.
Is it a set up to make the world have to sink Japan to get rid of radiation coming out all over the world?
Folks, it’s all over but the crying! TPTB have kill us. It’s just a matter of time now.
There was nothing they could do anyway, other then not to build the nuke power stations where they did. Japan is dead or soon to be.
Go back and watch “On the Beach” movie.
this is not the but the beginning of the end.
So, detectable levels of radiation are dangerous? Then find some way to leave Earth because naturally occurring radiation is everywhere. No…wait…you’ll have to leave the universe itself because all of it is naturally radioactive. (Curse those radiation-spawning stars!) Hmmmm…this means there’s no safe level of life, right?
Leslie – there are different kinds of radiation – some are deadly, some are good! Some degrade quickly and others don’t… so unless you can speak intelligently, I suggest you not write silly comments until you know of what you speak!
Leslie, may I tell you something? sorry I will…. I come from Spain, a country where you hear all sorts of things (very high level stupidities) on radio, tv, internet, and the whole lot, but let me tell you that your comments has beaten all of them by far this year and hey… we are enjoying a great year at this side of the pond… I won´t bother to comment or rebate your comment (somebody did quite properly before me), let me just say that there is plenty of stupidity on the internet to keep reading more, so save it for the bar! PLEASE
please go to japan and work on the nuke plant shut down so we dont need to worry about u breeding any more stupid people —if u consume radiation then u are truely screwed there are no safe levels of radiation -even back ground radation is NOT GOOD for you not real bad but NOT GOOD for you
why in the world hasn’t anyone taken any g’damned action against GE or the management?
why are we still sitting on our collective thumbs about the bank failures and why the big banks are being allowed to manipulate the stock market?
what happens when the people decide that the fed is illegal, and paper money is no good…hope you bankers can cook, farm, and barter that paper to some sucker like you do now (and dont knock at my door mr money man, because the shotgun has it’s own agenda)…all bets are off baby.
i know that’s a bit tangented from fukushima.
the worst part is thinking that snow is evil and using the snowblower can cause cancer now and that nobody in any position of power seems to give a crap.
Words are like the wind: they eventually pass with little regard for anything.
DEMAND ACTION!!!!
Okay, okay…. Got any solutions of what average, busy people can do about this?
Bend Over!
Great, more Coast to Coast A.M. hot air masquerading as legitimate news. Even a cursory check of sources on this piece reveals it to be nothing more than hot air. Fear-mongering is a such a lame hobby dude, try some real journalism.
tl;dr Do your homework, check your sources.
you mind trying some real commenting??? oh go on!
I think the scary thing is that there over 400 nuke facilities around the world with spent fuel stored and constantly cooled. The mind boggles if anything were to happen to power supplies to these facilities.
The whole nuke industry is shot as it was built around the premise of an ‘open’ fuel cycle so they could extract fuel for their silly little bombs. Bombs that you cannot use as you would terminate civilisation.
If power facilities did fail – possibly due to a solar event (a global war but we would all be dead anyway) then the planet would be irradiated pretty quickly.
There are reports backed by photos stating that reactor 4 wasn’t even working that day and the rods had been removed, the top of the reactor was removed for maintenance, so how could it explode in the first place. The US and Isreal have been very involved with this plant. An Israeli company won the contract for the reactor CCTV and supplied camera equipment that was far, far bigger than it needed to be. Some surmised that the equipment contained additional capacities and was surreptitiously controlled from Israel.
The generators at this plant had a problem to.
There are also reports from seismologists saying that the epicentre of the quake wasn’t offshore.
There is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. Check out Jimstonefreelance.com for more info.
I read your link re the Australian aspect – and the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency DIDN’T confirm a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.
Makes me wonder about your whole article.