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Anyone doing their multiplication tables?
These tuna make this circuit each year. Some of the same fish will feed and grow and make the same second circuit next year - except they will consume and concentrate more cesium from the fish they feed on while near Japan. Since cesium's half life is 30 years then this problem is going to be around for a few human generations. The article doesn't detail other dangerous radioactive isotopes that might also be present from Fukushima's nuclear plants - and their nuclear plant designs that chose to ignore the area's earth quakes and tsunami risks. "The Fukushima accident has led to trace amounts of radiation, including iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137, being observed around the world (New York State, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Montreal, and Austria).[352][353][354] Large amounts of radioactive isotopes have also been released into the Pacific Ocean." (http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/radioactive-tuna-found-off-californian-coast/16378?tag=nl.e660)
Posted by dduggerbiocepts
29th May 2012
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Before everyone starts freaking out...
from the original article:

"The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.
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But scientists did not expect the nuclear fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world because such fish can metabolize and shed radioactive substances."

I know what ALARA is do you? I understand that we want to minimize any exposure. But, let's be fair in the reporting and present both sides.
Posted by Cabo Wabo Addict
29th May 2012
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I sent a Link to NaturalHealth.
Mike has been following the Fukushima "Fuku-up" since it began and had forecast the arrival of the radiation to our shores a few months from now. It would seem it's arrived early. If it IS escalating this rapidly in the ocean, and you add that to the animal and plant mutations already appearing as far east as Michigan, the increasing storm systems coming into the Mid-West from the West may be precipitating (no pun intended-but I'll take it...) a disaster in our fields where we are already experiencing issues with the Bio-Tech.
Posted by DrRexDexter
29th May 2012
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Japan? Radioactivity? Ocean?
Hello! Next we'll be seeing the Headline...

"GODZILLA attacks Tokyo!"

How quickly we forget!
Posted by TCIA001
29th May 2012
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People get with...
the program, nuclear energy, is clean, safe, and reliable. If you don't belive me, read about the Three mile lsland accident, in Pennsylvania in '1979. Or the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986. Or the most reacent diaster in Japan, at Fukushima Dai-ichi. BTW here's a whole list, of nuclear incidents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents
Posted by blackjack861@...
29th May 2012
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