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In a couple of years - you're gonna have a major problem, one that no one in Congress or the WH has yet to address. The Tepco operated Fukushima power plant is releasing 300-400T of radioactive waste water into the Pacific every day. Some of the flotsam has already arrived on Alaska and BC shorelines and more is yet to come!
There are plenty of stories about this if you'll do a search. I just picked the one with the interactive map.
As it stands right now, no one is accepting fish products from Japan. It won't be long until Bering Sea products will too be rejected, which means the crab boats out of Dutch and Kodiak won't be operating much longer.
In a couple of years - you're gonna have a major problem, one that no one in Congress or the WH has yet to address. The Tepco operated Fukushima power plant is releasing 300-400T of radioactive waste water into the Pacific every day. Some of the flotsam has already arrived on Alaska and BC shorelines and more is yet to come!
There are plenty of stories about this if you'll do a search. I just picked the one with the interactive map.
As it stands right now, no one is accepting fish products from Japan. It won't be long until Bering Sea products will too be rejected, which means the crab boats out of Dutch and Kodiak won't be operating much longer.
Based on the article you linked to, it appears that the folks on the U.S. West Coast might have more to worry about than the folks in Hawaiʻi thanks to the "North Pacific Gyre."
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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There's a lot of things I worry about in life. This isn't one of them.
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......................
Actually, admittedly from just skimming the article, Hawaii has a lot less to worry about than the rest of the Pac Rim.
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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......................
Can't see it as a problem. They can't sneak up on you at night if they glow in the dark.
Yeah, like Molasses is going to croak your fish. Whatta crock! Sorghum molasses doesn't float
It's hard to understand what you are trying to say.
First, this has nothing to do with sorghum syrup. The material that was spilled is molasses, a byproduct of sugar cane refining.
Second, yes molasses sinks. That's part of the problem, because if it stayed on the surface wave action would help to disperse it, and allow it to be carried out to sea. But because it sinks, it has covered the bottom, and is lingering. And that has allowed microorganisms to feed on it, which deplete the oxygen in the water, and that kills sea animals.
Third, thousands of fish have already died. Workers are being deployed with dip nets to deal with them near the shore, but they are only scratching the surface of the problem. It is a genuine disaster.
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“There’s nothing alive there at all,” diver Roger White told NBC affiliate KHNL after making a seven-minute video of dead sea life blanketing the bottom of the harbor.
“Everything is dead. They’re all dead and they’re all just lying across the bottom -- hundreds and hundreds, thousands.”
The idea that Fukushima could contaminate the entire Pacific Ocean is absurd.
The Pacific Ocean is big. Really big. Its volume is 680 million cubic miles.
Fukushima is leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean every day. That's extremely serious -- at least for the area immediately around the plant. 300 tons of water is approximately 80,000 gallons. That sounds scary -- until you realize that a cubic mile of water is 1,101,117,150,000 gallons and the Pacific Ocean contains 680,000,000 of them.
That's 748,759,662,000,000,000,000 gallons.
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