Our West Coast Is Being Fried With Radiation
By James Donahue
In spite of a general media silence, except for an occasional report from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) suggesting progress in cleaning up the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the release of radiation into the air and Pacific Ocean is now having a big impact on North America.
Because the double disaster destroyed not only the pumps that cooled the reactors, but hit the back-up pumping system, four of the six electric generating plants at Fukushima went into meltdown. Radiation levels are too dangerous at the site for humans, and even robots to get close enough to survey and attempt repair of the damage.
All that has been done since the disaster has been a constant flooding of the banks of fuel rods to prevent overheating and a potential nuclear explosion of unprecedented magnitude. Consequently 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima floods into the Pacific Ocean every day, and the amount of radioactive material being released into both the air and water has been steadily increasing.
Needless to say, high levels of radiation from Fukushima are now being recorded all along the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska south to Mexico. A giant floating block of radioactive debris has been slowly moving across the Pacific Ocean and parts of it are reaching the California coast.
Professor Michio Aoyama, of the Japan's Fukushima University's Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, warned in a report in December, 2015, that a radiation cloud that has been slowly drifting eastward over the Pacific Ocean could bring nearly as much radiation from Fukushima in 2016 as was initially scattered over Japan at the time of the 2011 disaster.
Approximately 800 terabecquerels' worth of cesium-137 (Cs-137) alone is expected to reach North America by next year, accounting for just 5 percent of the Cs-137 spilled into the ocean as a result of the disaster.
An article in Natural News dated December 8 by David Gutierrez noted that Cs-137, which can only be produced by human nuclear activities, is considered among the most dangerous byproducts found in nuclear waste. This is because "it mimics the activity of potassium and therefore accumulates in soil and plants, and is actively taken up by the human body," Gutierrez wrote.
He said that 800 terabecquerels is about 80 percent of the 1,000 terabequerels that Tokyo Electric Power Company said fell over Japan just after the disaster.
Cs-137, which is just one of the various radioactive particles contained in the cloud, takes about 600 years to decay to safe radiation levels. Michael Snyder, publisher of The Truth website, reported in 2014 that Strontium-90 and Iodine-131 were toxins already affecting the health of people in Japan and throughout North America. The stuff is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the soil and consequently in the food we grow.
Iodine-131 strikes the thyroid. It can stunt the physical and mental growth of children and cause a wide range of problems in adults, including cancer.
Cesium-137 accumulates in the muscles and Strontium-90 mimics calcium and attacks the bones.
How serious is this toxic cloud now beginning to blanket North America? While the U.S. and Japanese governments are remaining relatively silent about this ongoing disaster, several rebel writers on the web are attempting to decipher the strange names and numbers and tell us in plain English what it all means.
One writer, Stefan Stanford in a story for All News Pipeline, quoted one unnamed Canadian official as saying that since Fukushima, "an invisible blanket of death covers everything."
Stanford wrote: "Nobody apparently believes it to be so, but my guess is that the folks at the highest levels of our world governments are preparing for the societal breakdown once this 'cat' gets out of the proverbial bag . . . the onslaught of the radiation is never ending in human lifespans."
Bob Nichols, who publishes a weekly radiation count across the United States on the website Veterans Today, says the situation is far worse than government reports are indicating. He said he is reading dangerously high levels of both gamma and beta counts per minute (CPM) of radiation in cities all over the nation.
But Nichols, who has been keeping an eye on radioactive dumping since 1945 when the U.S. bombed Japan, says he believes there has been a concerted effort by government officials to hide the truth about the amounts of radiation being released. He says the Fukushima disaster is an ongoing curse that can never be repaired and it's effect on the world will continue to get worse with each passing year.
Nichols noted that the only thing keeping the packed fuel rods from going into a total burnout is the constant cooling of water from giant electric pumps fed by electric power from outside sources. But sooner or later those pumps will fail and we can only imagine what will happen then.
By James Donahue
In spite of a general media silence, except for an occasional report from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) suggesting progress in cleaning up the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the release of radiation into the air and Pacific Ocean is now having a big impact on North America.
Because the double disaster destroyed not only the pumps that cooled the reactors, but hit the back-up pumping system, four of the six electric generating plants at Fukushima went into meltdown. Radiation levels are too dangerous at the site for humans, and even robots to get close enough to survey and attempt repair of the damage.
All that has been done since the disaster has been a constant flooding of the banks of fuel rods to prevent overheating and a potential nuclear explosion of unprecedented magnitude. Consequently 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima floods into the Pacific Ocean every day, and the amount of radioactive material being released into both the air and water has been steadily increasing.
Needless to say, high levels of radiation from Fukushima are now being recorded all along the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska south to Mexico. A giant floating block of radioactive debris has been slowly moving across the Pacific Ocean and parts of it are reaching the California coast.
Professor Michio Aoyama, of the Japan's Fukushima University's Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, warned in a report in December, 2015, that a radiation cloud that has been slowly drifting eastward over the Pacific Ocean could bring nearly as much radiation from Fukushima in 2016 as was initially scattered over Japan at the time of the 2011 disaster.
Approximately 800 terabecquerels' worth of cesium-137 (Cs-137) alone is expected to reach North America by next year, accounting for just 5 percent of the Cs-137 spilled into the ocean as a result of the disaster.
An article in Natural News dated December 8 by David Gutierrez noted that Cs-137, which can only be produced by human nuclear activities, is considered among the most dangerous byproducts found in nuclear waste. This is because "it mimics the activity of potassium and therefore accumulates in soil and plants, and is actively taken up by the human body," Gutierrez wrote.
He said that 800 terabecquerels is about 80 percent of the 1,000 terabequerels that Tokyo Electric Power Company said fell over Japan just after the disaster.
Cs-137, which is just one of the various radioactive particles contained in the cloud, takes about 600 years to decay to safe radiation levels. Michael Snyder, publisher of The Truth website, reported in 2014 that Strontium-90 and Iodine-131 were toxins already affecting the health of people in Japan and throughout North America. The stuff is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the soil and consequently in the food we grow.
Iodine-131 strikes the thyroid. It can stunt the physical and mental growth of children and cause a wide range of problems in adults, including cancer.
Cesium-137 accumulates in the muscles and Strontium-90 mimics calcium and attacks the bones.
How serious is this toxic cloud now beginning to blanket North America? While the U.S. and Japanese governments are remaining relatively silent about this ongoing disaster, several rebel writers on the web are attempting to decipher the strange names and numbers and tell us in plain English what it all means.
One writer, Stefan Stanford in a story for All News Pipeline, quoted one unnamed Canadian official as saying that since Fukushima, "an invisible blanket of death covers everything."
Stanford wrote: "Nobody apparently believes it to be so, but my guess is that the folks at the highest levels of our world governments are preparing for the societal breakdown once this 'cat' gets out of the proverbial bag . . . the onslaught of the radiation is never ending in human lifespans."
Bob Nichols, who publishes a weekly radiation count across the United States on the website Veterans Today, says the situation is far worse than government reports are indicating. He said he is reading dangerously high levels of both gamma and beta counts per minute (CPM) of radiation in cities all over the nation.
But Nichols, who has been keeping an eye on radioactive dumping since 1945 when the U.S. bombed Japan, says he believes there has been a concerted effort by government officials to hide the truth about the amounts of radiation being released. He says the Fukushima disaster is an ongoing curse that can never be repaired and it's effect on the world will continue to get worse with each passing year.
Nichols noted that the only thing keeping the packed fuel rods from going into a total burnout is the constant cooling of water from giant electric pumps fed by electric power from outside sources. But sooner or later those pumps will fail and we can only imagine what will happen then.