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***ushima Cesium collection update (Alaska to California research cruise)

Whale-ista - 8-19-2014 at 06:55 PM

Regarding my recent travels to Alaska, then cruising from the Aleutian Islands to Northern California, here more Information on the cesium collection:

"These finding have led to some exciting additions to the Our Radioactive Ocean project including the collection of around 50 new samples collected offshore using the Research Vessel Point Sur from Moss Landing Marine Labs. The RV Point Sur left Dutch Harbor, AK, on the Aleutian chain and headed to Eureka, CA, collecting both surface ocean and water at various depths (many thanks to Curtis Collins & crew!). Even though we were not funded to participate, it was too good an opportunity to pass up. Now we’ll need to raise enough funds through OurRadioactiveOcean.org to get these samples analyzed so we can resolve that critical offshore to onshore gradient in cesium isotopes."

Greetings to friends and followers of Our Radioactive Ocean,
It’s been just over half a year since we launched Our Radioactive Ocean, and we have several updates to convey to our supporters.

Website Success

First some statistics. To date, we’ve had over 150,000 views and more than 30 sampling sites launched, thanks to over 370 donations from citizen scientists sampling the ocean from La Jolla to Alaska and including the Hawaiian islands. A handful of those sites are also supported into the future thanks to your efforts. We had no idea what to expect when we started, but your support and this broad interest makes us even more motivated to continue!

See more at : www.OurRadioactiveOcean.org

rts551 - 8-19-2014 at 06:57 PM

It was reported here on NOMADS that this is a non issue. Here we go again.

Whale-ista - 8-19-2014 at 07:07 PM

I don't recall seeing this specific website posted on nomad.

Do you remember when this website information was posted here?

http://www.ourradioactiveocean.org/results.html
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It was reported here on NOMADS that this is a non issue. Here we go again.

Whale-lista

captkw - 8-19-2014 at 07:13 PM

Hola, and a big THANKS !! rts55 someone posting dosnt always mean a damn thing about TRUTH !!:spingrin:

rts551 - 8-19-2014 at 07:51 PM

Support your efforts whale... but not everyone does

http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=73609#pid9128...

SFandH - 8-20-2014 at 07:14 AM

Good work whale-ista and kudos to your website designers and the scientists that provided the technical content. Nice job! The Cs-134 aspect for differentiating between weapons testing fallout and ***ushima contamination is interesting.

It is good to know that to date the ***ushima contamination is not a problem. But who knows what the future has in store. Those reactor cores will be sitting there for decades to come and the tank farm they are building to hold the contaminated water they are recovering is getting huge. The baseline measurements you're documenting now are important to have.

Another big earthquake with subsequent Tsunami in that area could be a tremendous disaster that will affect our west coast.

For additional sampling sites, I recommend the San Diego bay and other bays where nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers are based. Why not? You're already doing the complicated testing for fission fragments and those boats/ships are full of them.

[Edited on 8-20-2014 by SFandH]

wessongroup - 8-20-2014 at 07:31 AM

Dittos

Sweetwater - 8-20-2014 at 07:59 AM

Nicely done Whale-ista. Rather than ignorance and the blind leading the blinder, this sheds good light on the real issues that ***ushima will present.
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This is a very small number if we compare it to the 7,400 Bq/m3 used by US EPA as the drinking water limit, and the millions of Bq/m3 of cesium detected in the ocean off Japan in 2011 at the peak of the accident, which at that level are of considerable concern for direct negative impacts on marine biota and human health.



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We emphasize that cesium-134 has not been detected “YET” as it has been detected offshore of North America by Canadian oceanographers. It’s difficult to predict when these radionuclides will arrive onshore because the mixing of offshore and onshore waters is complicated, and not represented in the simple models that predicted the arrival onshore of ***ushima radionuclides this year.


Rather than bury our heads in the sand, documentation of the ***ushima contamination of our biosphere is very important work which will be necessary for a prolonged period. The reports closer to the vicinity of the disaster are ominous to say the least....
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via RT.com / August 15, 2014 / ***ushima’s nuclear disaster has caused genetic damage, a decline in the population and other changes to non-human organisms from plants to butterflies to birds in the area, US and Japanese scientists say. In a series of articles published in the latest of US s ...