".....After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and other concerned scientists, managed to secure private funding for a Pacific research voyage. The results?
Cesium levels in the Pacific had initially gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly leveled off.
In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.
This means the ocean isn't diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling.
The finding suggests that radiation is still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, 2011....."
Read the entire article:
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A little digging shows that facebook post linking to a "SHTF" site. Not surprisingly, a site that caters to people who are convinced the world is ending (and a site that makes money from advertisers selling end-of-the-world food prepper kits and places to buy gold) is also picking up this study.
But where is the actual study? Where is the actual data that those indie scientists gathered? It is interesting if you look at the actual study itself, because it actually says there is not much cause for alarm. No wonder they didn't link it on all of those doomsday posts declaring the end of humanity by radiation poisoning.
from the actual study:
"As a result, radiation levels in the eddy were as much as 1,000 times higher than those before the start of the accident, but these remained well below levels of concern for humans and marine organisms and were approximately one-sixth the level of radiation that marine organisms receive from naturally occurring radionuclides such as potassium-40."
You can find the original study here:
The study notes that we should be conerned and monitor the radiation levels closely. It does not indicate a coverup, and it does not indicate that we are being poisoned.
There is another source that the doomsday prophets mention on that joke of a facebook post, which states that:
"Infant mortality rates across the United States have increased by more than 35% since the nuclear disaster, according to a court statement by Dr. with independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD. A study published in The International Journal of Medicine indicates that more than 20,000 deaths right here in North America can be directly attributed to the release of radioactive material from Fukushima."
20,000 deaths? That's a lot. Unless, of course, the statistics you use to get that number are horribly flawed and sloppy, as is shown by this article.
Should we be concerned about the nuclear consequences from Fukishima? Absolutely.
Should we let conpsiracy theories about coverups and doomsday cheerleaders be the ones giving us our info? Probably not. As usual, they are distorting facts to fit their narrative that everything is a coverup and the world is ending. Buy gold! Hoard food and guns!