data emerging about pacific contamination Sea water 372 miles away from Fukushima daiichi 162 to 325 times more radioactive than " natural radiation"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46932480/ns/technology_and_science-science/u...
Naturally, the oceans hold about 1-2 becquerels (Bq) of radioactivity per cubic meter of water, where a becquerel is one decay per second. The researchers found hundreds to thousands of times more, with up to 3,900 Bq per cubic meter in areas closer to the shore, and 325 Bq in sites as far as 372 miles (600 km) away.
Update waste fluids appear to have leaked !!!
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204050045
Radioactive waste likely leaked into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 5, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
The waste fluids were byproducts after purifying water contaminated by radiation at the nuclear plant and appear to have leaked from a hose.
Although the leak was eventually stopped, some of the waste fluids appear to have flowed into a drainage ditch that empties into the Pacific.
TEPCO officials said about 12 tons of waste fluids appear to have leaked.
On March 26, waste fluids also leaked from a hose located close to where the latest leak took place.
The waste that leaked on March 26 contained high levels of radiation. The fluids contained radioactive cesium at levels of 10,000 becquerels per liter and radioactive strontium and other radioactive materials that emit beta-rays of 140 million becquerels.
In the latest leak, the waste likely had similar levels of radiation.
A worker found the waste fluids leaking from the hose at 1:05 a.m. on April 5. The equipment was stopped five minutes later and a valve was closed about 35 minutes after that in an attempt to stop the leaking. However, fluids continued to leak and it was not until 2:20 a.m. that the leak was stanched. The leak was caused by the hose becoming disconnected.
Efforts were made to lay sandbags around the drainage ditch that empties into the Pacific to prevent the waste from reaching the ocean. However, some of the liquid waste flowed into the ditch before the levee could be created.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204050045
Great ? ex vessel fuel in contact with pacific waters ?
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=3622&cid=133509
"Another open question is why radiation levels in the waters around Fukushima have not decreased since the Japanese stopped emergency cooling operations. According to Buesseler, it may be an indication that the ground surrounding the reactors has become saturated with contaminated water that is slowly seeping out in to the ocean. It may also be a sign that radionuclides in ocean sediments have become remobilized.
"What this means for the marine environment of the Northwest Pacific over the long term is something that we need to keep our eyes on," said Buesseler.
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=3622&cid=133509
I can't even begin to imagen
I can't even begin to imagen the effects on the marine life ... this is going to be a big things and we'll only hear about when it's allready to late to do something about it...
OF COURSE "ex"-Reactor fuel
OF COURSE "ex"-Reactor fuel is in the Pacific. The RVs were holed, the CVs breached, the buildings vented to the sky and literally hundreds of millions of gallons of sea- and fresh-water were and are being poured into these steel colanders, with the effluence streaming onto and into the ground, the water table, and ultimately, the sea. If we as a species had the technological means to perform a close inspection of the seafloor within, say, a thousand-mile radius of the plant, no doubt we'd find grains of former fuel roads scattered all over the Pacific basin. This is why this is an ONGOING issue, with no resolution save the passage of time... Centuries of it.