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What about radioactive cannibals?? Cast adrift from the shores of Japan by the tsunami?? And now, after a few years at sea, starving??? Starving, radioactive, Japanese cannibals......................
The first wave of radioactive flotsam arrived in Alaskan water less than a year after the tsumami. Add to that the first known contaminated salmon. Yep, you've obviously drunk the kool-aid. Hawaii is dead center in the northern loop - a bullseye you might say.
The first wave of radioactive flotsam arrived in Alaskan water less than a year after the tsumami. Add to that the first known contaminated salmon. Yep, you've obviously drunk the kool-aid. Hawaii is dead center in the northern loop - a bullseye you might say.
Apparently you haven't understood your own linked information, which quite clearly shows the way the currents pushing the debris and the radioacativity along largely miss Hawai'i as they pass to our north. We're not in the bullseye. We're barely in the outside ring.
And that matches our real life experiences so far, which have seen far more debris hit the West Coast than has landed here. And the radiation monitoring all around the state will let us know if there is anything to actually be concerned with.
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Just keep putting your head in the sand - it will go away, but in the meantime it might be a good idea to keep some potassium chloride on hand.
Everyone who stocked up on potassium chloride back when the reactors were melting down probably still has theirs, because it wasn't needed then.
Anyways, the biggest actual danger to Hawai'i and the West Coast seems to be ecological, because lots of sea animals that are alien to our shores are hitchiking along with the debris, so there's some danger from crabs and snails and other species that have the potential to become invasive. So far that seems to be the biggest concern scientists have around here.
And even though Matson has said they will pay for the cleanup, they also indicated they might just get out of the business of shipping molasses altogether because they think the risk is too high on a business they don't make much money on. They've been shipping a load to California every week to be used as an additive for cattle feed. That takes at least two ships in rotation, but it's only a tiny fraction of their total business.
The big question to me is, will this doom Maui's Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S), the last sugar plantation in Hawai'i. If they can't get rid of the molasses, a byproduct of sugar production, how can they continue?
Thank goodness for people who actually do the research. Unless someone proves OpenD wrong, THERE'S my source of information.
I battle anxiety and, though I don't stick my head in the sand, I can hardly handle watching the doom and gloom news. Actually, that started in Memphis when every morning brought a new body or two found, several drive-by shootings, etc etc. The morning news here is thankfully lighter but I prefer not to watch it anyway. I focus on what I can control - myself and how I affect the world. I can't stop the radiation no matter what direction it drifts. I have braved several visits to Hiroshima!
McFrosty that's so funny. This whole thread has put a smile on my face, oddly enough.
Actually, the biggest concern I've had is the cesium in the Ahi. But to Hawaii and the fishing industry's credit, they are monitoring it very closely. The problem is those Ahi are great swimmers. One article I read said they cross back and forth across the Pacific ocean numerous times in a year. So our sushi is a jetsetter (or is that ocean-setter?)
So heck with stocking up on potassium chloride! Stock up on Ahi! Or use plenny okolehau on top if you cook'em
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