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Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse)

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The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.

An energy map provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows the intensity of the tsunami in the Pacific Ocean caused by the magnitude 8.9 earthquake which struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Thousands of people fled their homes along the Pacific coast of North and South America on Friday as a tsunami triggered by Japan's massive earthquake reached the region but appeared to spare it from major damage. REUTERS/NOAA/Center for Tsunami Research/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Credit – NOAA

What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that caused a meltdown at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next three months, radioactive chemicals, some in even greater quantities than Chernobyl, leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several scientists to be flawed in recent years.

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Radioactive Debris from Fukushima approaching North America’s western coast       Credit – RT

If that weren’t bad enough, Fukushima continues to leak an astounding 300 tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean every day. It will continue do so indefinitely as the source of the leak cannot be sealed as it is inaccessible to both humans and robots due to extremely high temperatures.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Fukushima has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean in just five years. This could easily be the worst environmental disaster in human history and it is almost never talked about by politicians, establishment scientists, or the news. It is interesting to note that TEPCO is a subsidiary of General Electric (also known as GE), one of the largest companies in the world, which has considerable control over numerous news corporations and politicians alike. Could this possibly explain the lack of news coverage Fukushima has received in the last five years? There is also evidence that GE knew about the poor condition of the Fukushima reactors for decades and did nothing. This led 1,400 Japanese citizens to sue GE for their role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Even if we can’t see the radiation itself, some parts of North America’s western coast have been feeling the effects for years. Not long after Fukushima, fish in Canada began bleeding from their gills, mouths, and eyeballs. This “disease” has been ignored by the government and has decimated native fish populations, including the North Pacific herring. Elsewhere in Western Canada, independent scientists have measured a 300% increase in the level of radiation. According to them, the amount of radiation in the Pacific Ocean is increasing every year. Why is this being ignored by the mainstream media? It might have something to do with the fact that the US and Canadian governments have banned their citizens from talking about Fukushima so “people don’t panic.”

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Credit – AP

Further south in Oregon, USA, starfish began losing legs and then disintegrating entirely when Fukushima radiation arrived there in 2013. Now, they are dying in record amounts, putting the entire oceanic ecosystem in that area at risk. However, government officials say Fukushima is not to blame even though radiation in Oregon tuna tripled after Fukushima. In 2014, radiation on California beaches increased by 500 percent. In response, government officials said that the radiation was coming from a mysterious “unknown” source and was nothing to worry about.

However, Fukushima is having a bigger impact than just the West coast of North America. Scientists are now saying that the Pacific Ocean is already radioactive and is currently at least 5-10 times more radioactive than when the US government dropped numerous nuclear bombs in the Pacific during and after World War II. If we don’t start talking about Fukushima soon, we could all be in for a very unpleasant surprise.

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240 Comments on "Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse)"

  1. David schumaker on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:25 pm 

    To whom it my concern:There is only one way to stop this reactor from leaking. Although nobody would have the stomach for it. Leaving it would be far worse. Move all the people as far East as possible and send a cruise missile right into the reactor. The resulting nuclear explosion would consumer all the nuclear material. It may be a bad idea but I think it is all that is left to do.

  2. David on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:31 pm 

    The photo in the article is not that of radiation; it is Global Maximum Wave Amplitude. This slants the readers view prior to reading the article. I cannot stand false reporting.

  3. jay on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:35 pm 

    My oceanography teacher at WCU college would agree with you David. This is misleading disinformation and a total irrelevant image regarding radiation. What a surprise peakoil.com has an article denouncing nuclear power…

  4. Tim H. on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:36 pm 

    Does it bother anyone else that there is the possiblty of FREE energy? That this technology and information was dismissed by men of “business” and making money decades ago? Either Tesla was absolutely crazy or a gifted “”scientist” or impressionist. I don’t really care where he learned how to attain free energy, I only know that he meant well for mankind as a whole, not bowing down to the “elites”. He never tried to make a fortune with his experiments and he died pENNILESS in a motel room when he could have “played ball” and become wealhy. Several of his experiments actually succeeded, however they were buried from the people so that jobs would become available setting power poles in the ground, building damns, creating companies that made transformers, cable to carry the electrictity etc. But then the brillaint minds of the era learned how to create fission with certain isotopes. Nuclear energy. The only problem is that this form of energy can become uncontrollable with any man made or natural disaster. Isn’t it time to go back and provide the information Nikoli Tesla tried in vain to GIVE to the population of Earth. I believe his findings are not destoyed, only buried. I believe the use of Teslas finding CAN be incorporated into our modern world without destroying our oil based, nuclear depedence. If his findings are not real,not practical, undoable, PROVE it to US, the people. This is what an informed people would wish.I ask you, the people of this planet to find anything you can to read or watch documentaries of Nikoli Tesla. He was gifted about the true nature of electricity. How many more nuclear or oil disasters will it take topoison the entire Earth? We owe it to future generations.

  5. Plantagenet on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:49 pm 

    David is right . The picture accompanying this article is NOT a map of radiation distribution. Its a map of the propagation of the Fukushima tsunami in the hours after the earthquake, created by Prof. Zygmunt Kowalik of NOAA/University of Alaska.

    Cheers!

  6. ghung on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:57 pm 

    Does it bother anyone else that there is the possiblty of FREE energy?”

    What bothers me is that our populace is so poorly educated that they are in total denial of the laws of thermodynamics. Idiotic.

    “If his findings are not real,not practical, undoable, PROVE it to US…”

    Carnot proved it to us before Tesla was even born:

    “The first established thermodynamic principle, which eventually became the second law of thermodynamics, was formulated by Sadi Carnot in 1824…”

    “Second law of thermodynamics: In a natural thermodynamic process, the sum of the entropies of the interacting thermodynamic systems increases. Equivalently, perpetual motion machines of the second kind are impossible.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics

  7. Steve Smith on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 12:57 pm 

    An oil industry website complaining about nuclear energy, who would have thought such a thing could happen. The world needs power. No doubt about that. It will require a blend of all available technologies. It is time to work on solutions not complain about the other guy in hype articles.

  8. John C on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:00 pm 

    First it was the contamination in the pacific and atlantic oceans with mercury.I was involved with the study of mercury in the south pacific all the way to McMurdo station Antarctica.ALL fish and mammals tested had mercury in their liver,1973.Now our oceans are filled with not just more rariation but nuclear waste.This might be the last straw for our future resource’s in the oceans.not just the U.S. but all mankind.

  9. regardingpo on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:06 pm 

    Steve Smith, THIS IS NOT “an oil industry website”.

    It’s not complaining about nuclear either, it’s merely reporting about an environmental disaster.

    You however are clearly a shill for nuclear industry.

  10. huldah1776 on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:09 pm 

    snopes is your friend (and progressive to boot)

  11. susan on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:11 pm 

    WHY HASN’T JAPAN STOPPED THE LEAKS????

  12. das on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:11 pm 

    Illegal immigrants did it. They are blamed for everything losers can’t cope with.

  13. alvin j adams jr... on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:36 pm 

    WELL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HAVE DONE IT AGAIN…NOW IT WILL BE UP TO AMERICA TO CLEAN UP THE MESS JAPAN MADE…JUST LIKE RUSSIA …ALL THE COUNTRIES RUN BY THE HITLIER STYLE OF RUNNING A COUNTRY…NOW THE WORLD LEADERS HAVE JUST PUT THE WORLD IN BIG TROUBLE..NOT FAIR..THE GOVERNMENT OF THE USA NEEDS HILLARY CLLINTON TO USE HER KEEN BRAIN TO HELP SOLVE THE WORLDE PROBLEM.

  14. Dredd on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:43 pm 

    What next, hurricanes that glow in the dark (The Path of Matthew) ?

  15. GregT on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:44 pm 

    “The world needs power. No doubt about that.”

    The world does not need human generated power, and if human beings continue to disregard the consequences, the world will shake the parasitic human species off, just like fleas on a dog.

  16. Dredd on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:45 pm 

    alvin,

    Do you have a chip monk on your shoulder?

    Read the post and note that GE designed the defective equipment that failed.

  17. Apneaman on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:49 pm 

    huldah1776, what does snopes have to do with it? There are a number of sites, including NOAA itself that can prove that image is being ahhh ……. misused…… again……for like the tenth time.

    BTW, when I was on the snopes site, I looked around and there were a few debunkings of anti Trump internet lies/hoaxes too, so does that still make them “progressive” evil doers N such?

  18. James Mathis on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:55 pm 

    Years ago I read an interesting blurb about solubility. If one was to dye every molecule in a glass of water red and then toss it into the ocean in the PNW, a year and a half later if you dipped a glass of water out of the Indian Ocean there would be 1,500 of those red molecules in it. Wow.

  19. GregT on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 1:59 pm 

    @ jr. alvin,

    I seriously hope that you’re being facetious. If not, you have my vote as the most clueless poster ever on these forums.

  20. GregT on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 2:13 pm 

    “WHY HASN’T JAPAN STOPPED THE LEAKS????”

    Because Susan, spending half a century and billions of dollars cleaning up toxic waste dumps, is good for the economy, and helps to grow GDP. (sarc off)

  21. penury on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 2:20 pm 

    The interesting thing about reading the comments on anything to do with Fukishima is the breadth and depth of the ignorance displayed by the posters. The ones which are simply stupid are easy to ignore but, the ignorant could cure there problem with a modicum of effort.

  22. Grady Wilson on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 2:23 pm 

    Scary stuff, but in re the final statement “If we don’t start talking about Fukushima soon, we could all be in for a very unpleasant surprise.”….what can we do about it anyway?

  23. K. Coombs on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 2:34 pm 

    Humans are a genetic experiment on this earth and the way I see it, the inventor of man will look for a replacement, because of the reckless behaviors perpetrating by us. We are destroying the earth and poisoning the oceans with these dangerous nuclear facilities. It was proven that there are alternative source of energy. The earth is suffocating from the relentless bombardment of toxins from bombs, chemical, oil and much more. What is so alarming is that the human population is increasing, and the food and water sources are rapidly diminishing. I thing the next great war will be for drinking water, then drought. When the cataclysmic phenomenon comes, the leaders of the world will try to reverse the damage but it will be too late. We look the disaster from the previous accidents and the oil spills, you would think the wealth worshipers will curtail their quest for wealth.
    Finally, we were not always here. When we arrived, we inherited everything before us not to destroy, but destroy we are doing. The maker of man gives us a failing grade for our lawless way of living. The industrial revolution was not a blessing, but a curse. It has create greed, and greed is causing destruction of the earth. Let the truth be told, natural disaster will occur we have no control over them. But all nuclear facilities should be shut down. The United Nation is a platform for world concerns, but it relevance is rapidly.

  24. Jim Holland on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 2:37 pm 

    1. a 5 times higher levels if measured from 0.00001 is still very little.

    2. Nothing to indicated sea life was not being harmed by increased water temperature.

    This does not mean there is nothing to the radiation increase, but not enough technical evidence here to draw any conclusions.

  25. peakyeast on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 3:07 pm 

    There is enough evidence to show that humans cannot administrate even a plow nor any other tools nor its own procreation. Just look what it has come to.

  26. John on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 3:36 pm 

    Will make fishing easier at night , I can now throw away my flashlight

  27. John on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 3:36 pm 

    Will make fishing easier at night , I can now throw away my flashlight

  28. Kate on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 3:55 pm 

    OMFG! Really???
    Japanese are so smart?? They did nothing to update this Ancient Plant on their SMALL Island. Now it sits there day after day and no one knows how to fix it??
    ALL these so called SMART people and they built NUKE plant after NUKE plant ALL over the world?? THIS is OUR HOME,
    the ONLY one we have!!! All the MONEY in the World is not worth it.
    Just Sayin…. WAKE UP SMART PEOPLE!! CASH MONGERS are KILLING OUR HOME!!!

  29. Rod Borgeman on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:12 pm 

    The very first thing that needs to be done is to seal the leak, then work on the problem of using the enrgy.
    The ideal people to be front and center on this problem is G.E. Instead of sueing them ask for their help and whoever that would volunteer their help with the situation and get the problem taken care of instead of killing our ocean. This could lead to other ocean poisoning because the currents don’t stop with the west coast of the U.S. it continues on to Antartica and around the tip of South America and on to the Atlantic.
    This could lead to the total anialation of the entire world.starvation would would hit long before that with sea foods becoming un-eadible.
    SO WHEN YOU SAY TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!
    That means everyone.

  30. George on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 4:12 pm 

    Why is this being ignored by the mainstream media? It might have something to do with the fact that the US and Canadian governments have banned their citizens from talking about Fukushima so “people don’t panic.”

    This comment alone discredited the entire article as the US has freedom of speach and no one can be told what to talk about.

  31. Eddie on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:33 pm 

    First red flag in this article:

    Blaming the disaster on a earthquake in Chile from the previous year.

    Stopped reading at that point.

  32. r v d on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 5:57 pm 

    dr kinley is about to being this world to a end.

  33. Concerned Citizen on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:48 pm 

    To: penury,you said:

    The interesting thing about reading the comments on anything to do with Fukishima is the breadth and depth of the ignorance displayed by the posters. The ones which are simply stupid are easy to ignore but, the ignorant could cure “their” problem with a modicum of effort.

    And, you are correct, however, the stupidity and ignorance you describe is rampant on every blog. So, your would have to educate most of the world when they refuse to be educated. I wish you the best in your efforts.

  34. Concerned Citizen on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 6:58 pm 

    To: K. Coombs,

    I find it fascinating how much you and I agree on this subject. For many years I have tried to teach the world what you are saying. The arrogant, egotistical and greedy humans will not listen. Humans have already put the earth in a situation where it cannot survive. My only real sorrow is that all of the other animals and plants, none of whom did the damage to the earth, will die along with all of the humans.

    You and I may possibly live long enough to see the end of life on planet Earth.

  35. Concerned Citizen on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:03 pm 

    George, There is no “freedom of speech” in the USA. All speech is controlled by the criminally corrupt US government.

  36. Paul Bartels on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:04 pm 

    We have developed a way to extract carbon out of the atmosphere to redeem plastic. Now we need to find a way to extract radiation from air and sea to redeem energy.
    Get the picture GE
    Present a prize for the best ideas, then develop it. Many times, engineers don’t have the best ideas.

  37. joe smith on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:10 pm 

    Time to start putting people in jail when they create laws intended to slow renewable energy creation when it is at the cost of the tax payers.

  38. David watson on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 7:51 pm 

    should there be a god of understanding The roll model(s) you watch on the big screen needs your attention i have a solution but in order for that to work it takes numbers trust and you forever lasting care for god most humans choose some one of there own belief Hemming David is the missing key taken down face book and twitter .com is a must its crap that sits idol and does absolutely nothing for anyone who makes a business in a real world people don’t need to see or hear this without making a buck or two. exclusive pages on the top secret pilot series is and off line for more than reason of tolerances group discoveries and inter acting are the keys to any success stories god can help when sought thru the right channels such as the one i want to bring you all on this page Greenpeace was a start for some in the day activist slaughter the lamb of god giving to a wolf not always an ugly seen when compared to military cliches off with the head of the chicken and what have you not.hope you godspeed just ahead.Dave

  39. Mark Smith on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 8:43 pm 

    ““If his findings are not real,not practical, undoable, PROVE it to US…”
    Carnot proved it to us before Tesla was even born:
    “The first established thermodynamic principle, which eventually became the second law of thermodynamics, was formulated by Sadi Carnot in 1824…”

    This does not answer the question because the brunt of Teslas research was in high current..read Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900. I don’t recall anything pertaining to a perpetual motion machine on the contrary it was the use of earth ground and the ionosphere to distribute energy to individual receptors. J.P. Morgan stopped the funding of the Wardenclyff Tower once he realized it would provide energy to the masses for practically nothing. A verifiable and historical fact.

  40. Oudrey Wilson on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:04 pm 

    Been around nuc. stuff, only good for destruction. 25-30 yrs for power, 500-1000 yrs B4 waste is safe.

  41. Ranger Adams on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:10 pm 

    Good clean and cheap power can be had with geothermal power. Hot rock on earth is common. Big oil and the nukes don’t want it because it doesn’t consume.I worked in nuclear power when I was young and this accident was not an if but a when. They need to entomb the thing under tons and tons of concrete and stop pumping water through it into the ocean. They may end up needing to set off explosives in the cores to scatter them a bit and cool them down. Injection of carbon might also help.The bottom line is that the Pacific is being destroyed not only by over fishing but by this man made poison.

  42. HARM on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:25 pm 

    Fukushima was an ecological disaster that can’t/won’t be cleaned up for decades or even centuries. Even so, a badly written and misleading agitprop piece like this, riddled with scientific inaccuracies and exaggerations, isn’t helpful.

    “Fukushima continues to leak an astounding 300 tons of radioactive waste…” No it is not. What’s leaking into the Pacific is 300 tons of contaminated WATER, not “radioactive waste”. Still bad, but 300 tons of radioactive uranium/plutonium per day would be orders of magnitude worse.

    “over the next three months, radioactive chemicals…”

    Confuses chemistry (branch of science dedicated to understanding how different elements combine with each other via electrons) with nuclear physics (the domain of radioactivity and nuclear decay). An extremely basic distinction that anyone purporting to write as an authority about this event should understand.

  43. really? on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 9:29 pm 

    and we are worried about DPRK nukes! Japan finally revanged for two nukes we drop in 1945.

  44. ZeroG on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 10:02 pm 

    What is there to talk about? According to the author, the leak cannot be sealed nor contained by man or robot. Are we supposed to clean all of the world’s oceans to free them of this insidious radiation? We can’t even clean the filth, pollution and plastic that we can see, so good luck getting rid of contamination that’s invisible. Never mind how to pay for it. Bottom line is that mankind is hellbent to eradicate the earth of all living things including himself and this is just one more step in the journey.

  45. Brian Costine on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 10:10 pm 

    Isn’t it all about money ? Fuko was owned by GE and it went so bad, they can’t afford to pay for the clean up. No company or nation can pay for the cleanup. It’s like in the movie the Wizard of Oz when he tries to deny everything by saying “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. Just deny the truth and maybe it will all go away and Dorothy will end up back in Kansas after a magical balloon ride. So will you. Wake the heck up ! There’s no free, magical ride. Fossil fuels aren’t the answer. Those poor dumb dinosaurs died and gave us their fluids only so we could repeat the dire process. If we don’t use the power of the sun, we are done. That is the only natural, daily, renewable power. We just need to convince the greedy corporate entities, that they can make money on it. Oops, guess we’re going to die !

  46. Welch on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:07 pm 

    Posting this garbage here really diminishes the credibility of the site.

  47. GregT on Mon, 3rd Oct 2016 11:27 pm 

    “Isn’t it all about money ? Fuko was owned by GE and it went so bad, they can’t afford to pay for the clean up.”

    There are some things that money just can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Master Card.

  48. Joe on Tue, 4th Oct 2016 12:01 am 

    Obviously this scary information cannot be true! After all,President Obama told the US public 5 years ago basically not to worry about the accident and to ignore the radioactive cloud drifting across America and around the world. I have confidence that radiation connected death rates have not gone up and that a little extra radiation in our food and water is probably good for us. I wonder what the closely guarded government statistics show, and what our extensive network of radiation measuring stations and labs are reporting?

  49. makati1 on Tue, 4th Oct 2016 12:07 am 

    Joe, you really don’t want to know. We are probably living in the last few decades of homo sapiens. I worry more for my grand kids than myself. They will not live to see my 72+ years.

  50. Janelle Petrasek on Tue, 4th Oct 2016 12:32 am 

    Thank u soooooooooooo much for doing this article.I’ve been looking into this over 3 years,and “Its time people are aware.”God bless u,and thank u.

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