High-level radiation found over 300 km stretch off Fukushima — “Reconcentration” of radioactive substances observed… TEPCO had said it would significantly dilute in ocean

Published: May 28th, 2011 at 6:32 am ET
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High radiation found on seabed in 300-km stretch off Fukushima, Kyodo, May 28, 2011:

Radiation levels up to several hundred times normal have been detected on the Pacific seabed in a 300-kilometer-long area [...]

The [science] ministry said high-level radioactive materials were detected on the seabed in a north-south stretch ranging from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and warned the contamination could affect the safety of seafood. [...]

High-level radiation found on seabed off Japan nuclear plant, DPA, May 28, 2011:

[...] Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, has repeatedly said radioactive materials
would significantly dilute by the time they were consumed by marine species.

But Greenpeace said it had observed a reconcentration of the substances in the ocean and called for long-term research.

For more information see: Fukushima I Nuke Plant: High Concentration of Radioactive Cesium in the Ocean Soil in 300-Kilometer Strip Along the Coast

Published: May 28th, 2011 at 6:32 am ET
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53 comments to High-level radiation found over 300 km stretch off Fukushima — “Reconcentration” of radioactive substances observed… TEPCO had said it would significantly dilute in ocean

  • milk and cheese

    You can always trust TEPCO statements if you turn them 180 degrees, then double the negatives. I find it hard to believe they haven’t sent in the military by now.


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  • bcbud

    So much for the dilution theory.


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  • As I asked a few weeks back – ‘What primary containment?’

    There isn’t any!

    Once again could I ask everyone to contain their personal fears and concentrate on getting effective aid and information to the people of Japan?

    Remember the vast outpouring of sympathy, aid and money to Indonesia in 2004 – was this just because it occurred during the western ‘week of goodwill towards all men’?


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    • Darth

      By using nuclear power the Japanese have shot themselves in their own foot. They have nuked themselves. Nature does not reward stupidity – it devolves it. I will not send them even one nickel nor prayer – let them get a good whiff of their error.

      Try to ease the pain with money and aid will only enable them and the rest of the world to continue this dangerous nuclear error foisted on the world by the USA.

      If the latest branch of apes are as smart as they claim to be there will be a morphic resonance amongst them and all will stop using nuclear power.


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      • “the Japanese have shot themselves in their own foot.”

        Is it fair to ask whether they had any say in the matter?

        How far away from an NPP do you live?

        Not far enough, wherever. This is a problem for the entirety of mankind to address once and for all. If the OWO has no interest in guarding human life then they must be replaced by people who have.

        Now.


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      • jump-ball

        Yes, starting a donation site to fund Japanese family evacuations off the islands might be money more well spent.

        And the site might be hacked faster than you can say ‘Alexander Higgins’.


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  • cossack55

    I hope by “long-term research” they mean within 90 days. I don’t think we have much long-term left.


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    • Heart of the Rose

      Long term research means paying the “right”scientists,universities,enough money to falsify tests results.
      They are already rehearsing the results in the mirror.


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  • I agree with you cossack–all this talk about, ‘cancer in 20 years’,..in this,…PURE shrill bullshittttt! If that were true, animals and plants would not be dying! We do NOT have years folks!
    Indeed, try to find a solution, write letters, call your representatives, or become an activist. We all need to do all that we can do to know that we were a part in the solution, not just a small part of the problem.

    I pray that the Japanese people are waking up. Many are, that is good. It is time to walk out if they have to, Yes? I am considering the same thing here in Cali. Like many Japanese, I do not have money or a savings,…but that shouldn’t stop anyone. I am preparing to take drastic action! I’ll walk or hitchhike if I must. I must TRUST the Cosmos (Whom I call God), and let it’s wisdom carry me-IMO.

    Peace out.


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    • Heart of the Rose

      Ya..bullsh*t…they go on about cancer…to keep the public’s mind off of RADIATION SICKNESS….


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      • Heart of the Rose

        No word out of our government or military.
        Our military….what are they doing in this crisis.
        Let me guess..exposing their own to radiation..the top brass stumbling over their shiny boots …all the ready to help coporate /gov….harm our own people.
        My hats off again to the Air Force pilots whom were awarded for dumping corexit in the GOM and for your continuing efforts to do so at this time.
        It is a continuing and perpetual process…so get ‘er done!


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        • “Our military….what are they doing in this crisis.”

          Checkout the US military anti-radiation-sickness wonder pill – carbon nanotube (CNT)… as for them ‘doing anything’, aren’t they a bit busy elsewhere right now, no thanks to the government?


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          • jump-ball

            Most of what the authorities express is IMO a ruse designed to conceal their much simpler agenda, the code word for which, for the Gulf of Toxico approach, and now for the Tepco technique, is the ‘dilution solution’.


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    • Cassie

      Hi Jill and Heart:

      I figure they have it all worked out.
      When we start getting ill with radiation sickness,
      they will say how lucky we are that it is not cancer.
      When we get cancer they will tell us that we are lucky
      to be alive. And when we really complain, they will
      say how lucky we are not to be living in Japan.

      The govt has spent a great deal of money learning
      state of the art propaganda and mass manipulation
      techniques. And for the critics out there, this is fact.
      Not conspiracy.
      Cassie


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    • Cassie

      Is my computer acting strange
      or did the lettering color on this site
      change to royal blue???
      Pretty.
      Cassie


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  • from ttokyo

    chiba fish is standard in tokyo so it’s already eaten by many million people. still the government does NOTHING but saying “every thing is safe!” and all japanese ppl are manipulated by television news.
    worse than chernobyl not just the accident itself but also how the gov handles it (or canNOT cope with it)

    man.. we need information we can trust and a proper plan by the government!!


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    • Heart of the Rose

      The Japanese government unfortunately is corrupt.
      The illegal complicity between large corporations and other foreign (ours,etc,).. allows them to stand about spewing false conditions and false numbers..crying and mumbling apologies…
      SEPPUKU show us how much you care …knock yourselves off!


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      • blackmoon

        Almost all governments have abdicated their responsibilities to the corporations and to the elite.

        That was clear by the way the US gov. let BP do what ever it wanted. EPA said ‘do not use Corexit’ and BP said screw you!

        Governments want us dead or in FEMA camps.


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    • Maybe we are all wrong here and your govt is doing the right thing in handling this crisis. The evidence is mounting though that your govt is more interested in hiding & distorting the truths from its own people. That means your people will need to rise up and demand the changes you need to live through this danger to your future. There has to be a resource for the people for Japan – in Japan. Do you know of any Japanese online forums where information is being circulated? I am also curious to know what you think of the ideas you see shared on this site?


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      • from tokyo

        I live in tokyo, tokyo ppl pretend as nothing has happend, they try to avoid to think about it. they eat outside without feeling the danger.
        and if you are IN tokyo you really get manipulated.
        I eat outside, too, but it’s so obvious that contiminated vegetables & fish is being used by food service industry.
        (e.g. in tokyo: vegetables from ibaraki prefecture, fish from chiba. NO tests)

        there is a big “underground” forum called 2ch (2 channel 2ch.net), but “normal” people think 2ch ppl are lunatics.
        on 2ch they read international news. so do I…


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        • Awesome, I appreciate your perspective and insights. I am going to see if the forum you mentioned is accessible in English too! Perhaps if we can *link* to people from that forum to this forum to better flow the information and inspiration to Japanese people. I feel for you, I think most of us here can relate to being thought as *weirdos, fatalists, doom & gloomers but we are not that at all. As you probably agree, most of us want to live, prosper and be happy, healthy and present in our own lives. Stay strong and please don’t be afraid to reach out to this group – it is full of resourceful and intelligent people only wanting to help in anyway they can. Sometimes even listening is a great gift we can extend each other in times of need. Glad you are here.


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        • So sad …went to http://www.2ch.net/ and it is Japanese language only…. if there is an *English* button I am missing please advise! I was looking forward to inviting some of the locals to our forum to raise awareness from a grassroots level. People, stand up for yourselves.


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          • from tokyo

            THANK YOU T_T

            yes 2ch is known for being “underground” so there’s no english ver available – though it’s already a really big community
            The funny thing is that japanese ppl are suddenly honest when they write on these boards because it’s totally anonymous (even no login or registration required) which at the same time is the reason for been seen as mistrustful source and meeting of lunatics and unemployed persons (v_v)


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        • Caveat Emptor

          proper kata, how very Japanese.

          environmental awareness regarding any contaminates in fish was never on the radar anywhere i traveled in Japan.

          Not a criticism, just an observation.

          My young Japanese friend said it …

          “What can I do?”
          “We live with nature”.

          End of discussion. Proper kata. Good luck to her and her friends children.

          To see what i mean:

          http://news.change.org/stories/japanese-schools-serve-kids-mercury-filled-whale-meat


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        • tony wilson

          from tokyo..
          the warped japanese mindset has made this situation worse.
          what will the japanese people do when 10s of thousands of the population start getting very ill. at what point will the anger over flow onto the streets in the millions.
          i understand a job,status,shame,loss of face are big factors but only for a living healthy japanese person.
          something is fucked here 3 lots of 500 workers on site after 2 months,who knows if they are even working at the moment.


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        • Bevan

          I live in the States and over the past years many of us are getting used to being lied to and jerked over by govt. and govt.-favored corporations…But, it may be a new phenomenon in Japan?
          I highly advise that you skip assuming that they are just making errors and go straight to an “they want me dead!” understanding. Adjust quickly!
          Many U.S. vets of the Afghan and Gulf ‘Wars,’ Hurricane Katrina, huge banking, mortgage, & bailout scandals, lethal swine flu & HPV vaccines, Great Recession & market crash, catastophic Gulf of Mexico disaster, and now massive Fukushima fallout without warnings…Many can see a pattern!!…

          After witnessing the impact of much of the foregoing up close, I strongly advise all of you in Japan to guard your life and ACT, accordingly!!!… Don’t expect or wait for them to protect you… or you’ll be waiting for your own hastened funeral!…
          Your life in in danger.


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  • Benjo Honcho

    The same goes for the US ttokyo, we need info we can trust. I want to know about the produce, fruit, fish and etc., coming from California, Hawaii and the entire west coast, including Canada.


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    • It would be something if the North American citizens and Japanese citizens could form an ALLIANCE OF TRUTH – between us and bypass our governments for information and action plans. It would take Japanese people being able to see past their govt’s words and actions and trust the global information and theories. I realize my suggestion is easier said than done but we are running out of options and time for a reaction to carry a meaningful effect. Anything less leaves Japanese citizens at the mercy of a govt who remember, *forgot* to even notify two of your towns to even observe the no-go zone when this unfolded. The need to be self preserving is LOUD AND CLEAR from this side of the water.


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  • Heart of the Rose

    All that crying and damn mumbling..
    LIARS..COWARDS.
    Traitors to Humanity.


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  • Ken Nohe

    As Tepco said radio-active substances get diluted in the sea, that much must be true, but they didn’t day anything about the sea floor!

    For now, the fishing fleet in the areas affected is mostly destroyed but eventually some radioactivity will go up the food chain and boat will be back fishing.

    It will be interesting to see if people get used to higher levels of radioactivity (with some massaging from the media, they just might) or if there is a reaction.

    But in that case, what? We won’t be able to test every fish in the sea, and some species travel huge distances.

    Let’s not forget that we already accept levels of lead in tuna and some other pelagic fish which are probably not healthy.

    Radioactivity may at last raise the issue of how much trashing, whatever the cause, (PVC, heavy metals, etc) is acceptable. My guess is that soon enough another issue will steal the headlines like high gas prices (I mean really high like twice what it is now.) and suddenly people will realise that they can live with a much higher level of radioactivity as they thought possible. Just a guess.


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    • from tokyo

      > It will be interesting to see if people get used to higher levels of radioactivity (with some massaging from the media, they just might) or if there is a reaction.

      japanese people are already getting used, in a bad way. tepco just gives information a little by little.
      at first it was 200bq then after a month we got information about the seawater beaing million times above the limit.
      after two month the information about the meltdown. but it “already happened and still the world is going on and everybody is happy”, so it seems to be not that serious.

      one day after the information that reactor 2 and 3 also melted down.
      and one more day after information about “melt-through”.

      there’s nothing left anymore to shock japanese people, which unfortunately is a very bad sign.

      japanese government and mass media have accomplished what they tried to do: play the risk down and avoid panic. pretend the “worst scenario” being as not that “bad”.

      EU countries like swiss and germany are discussing about until which year they will stop with nuclear energy.

      In Japan the gov still discusses about how to strenghten the security of power plants.

      ridiculous.
      I’d say “ありえない” in japanese.


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      • Thank you very much for posting here. I do hope more Japanese people get to understand that cyber-anonymity is the only thing between New World Order dictatorship and the rest of humanity, right now – that’s why they are going all out to stifle free speech everywhere. They have belatedly realised that all their crimes over the last 300 years are on the net for everyone to see.

        Take heart from this and learn while the window is open, would be my advice to those who think free login sites are not credible – that’s all part of the programming.

        No harm in starting at the very source, either. Eg:
        John Coleman – Conspirators Hierarchy
        http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_committee300.htm

        If your situation is ‘impossible’, turn it around by mass action based on true knowledge.


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        • glenn

          Hi Joeb
          I don’t think there really is any cyber-anonymity, from the authorities at least. If they want to know who made a particular post they can easily find out. You and I can’t though. Anonymity actually works in their favor, because they can post propaganda and pretend it’s coming from the ‘general public’, and then have a bunch of sock puppets post about how good the comment was and how much they agree with it under fifteen pseudonyms. This gives a false impression of what public opinion really is. When posting is not anonymous this can’t happen. And why shouldn’t people take responsibility for their public statements?
          There’s a good example of this on the ABC website here in Oz. After a story there is a short period where people can post anonymously and then they close comments and tell you can post on their face book page. What I noticed was that the anonymous comments generally supported the story, but the face book (non-anonymous) comments were far more critical of the story, leading me to the suspicion that many of the anonymous comments were plants to make people feel that their opinions were not the ‘general public’ opinions. I rang them and took them to task on this but they assured me (of course) that this was not the case. “it’s just a different ‘set’ that posts there” was their explanation for the disparity.
          As for there crimes becoming known via the net, their crimes have been published in books for decades before the net emerged. Truth is during the good times people just didn’t want to know.


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      • I am really glad you are here and sharing with us. It is the silence coming out of Japan which is almost cruel for us on the other side of the world from Japan. What happens there affects us. The silence suggests Japan doesn’t care about us which can really fuel our fear with anger, not a good human combination as we all know! As mad as I am with the people who CONSTRUCTED this disaster, and I am very frustrated, I hope to convey understanding, compassion and acceptance of you personally. You seem like the kind of person who`d say the same things we are if you lived here on our side of the world. I believe you understand our position.


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        • from tokyo

          of course I do.

          I am japanese but was not raised in japan (now living in tokyo) but I’ve heard that there are lessons at school telling u how nuclear energy is clean and the plants are safe. and ppl have believed that 100%. crazy.
          indeed it’s their (our) own burden having let that happen.

          it’s the japanes stereotype: being passive & naive.
          plus, they don’t understand english so they do not search information from outside japan. just believing jap mass media.
          cannot write their feelings in english forums → just silence.

          so ridiculous. they don’t take any action and are just waiting and hoping that tepco does it right.

          in japan people praise you if u reach 700pts in TOEIC test lmao(笑)


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    • But poisonous ENERGY doesn’t dilute. It even moves into and causes cell damage of any living host who eats or breathes it inside of themselves. Fish, whale, turtle, plankton, coral, seagull or Man alike.

      If you are swimming off Fukushima right now through a school of fish, and none of you are aware of the plants plutonium discharge you all just swam through and because you gulped and swallowed the water and the fish swimming beneath your floating body breathed it over their gills… you are all home to poisonous plutonium effective immediately. Tell the fishes how well it dilutes.

      Radiation is a biological checkmate.


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  • Or,…Heart is right,…and ‘we’ll’ find that people can NOT live with these levels of radiation,…they ALL get radiation sickness sooner or later,……how’s THAT for a theory Sir?


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  • Heart of the Rose

    Let’s get our friends in big machinery out and push some dirt!
    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/27_35.html
    This is identical to the BP response..pay your contractor friends to look busy ….
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHf8jcNbks&feature=player_embedded


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  • Yes,…out here on the west coast, we call it, “the CalTrans Lean”,…they lean on their shovels quite effectually out here.


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  • EBliss

    Fukushima, HAARP, earthquakes, tornados, sever storms, our food supply, de-population & the globalist agendea EXPLANED.

    This is a HIGHLY DETAILED lecture with slides, charts and illustrations. This is more ‘inside information’ than you have ever heard.

    This IS THE MATRIX! You can take the “blue pill” and not watch this, or take the “red pill” and be prepared to HEAR THE TRUTH.

    Warning: THE TRUTH IS OFFENSIVE!

    Two parts approx 3 hours:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYhZlEf5gI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0ow2Jjs9E&feature=BFa&list=WL00356D86ED9BA73D&index=65


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  • Hi Cassie!

    Did you watch that 3 hour youtube video that was posted this morning? The Lauren (sp) gal,…explaining EVERYTHING? I was unable to pull myself away,….and it has helped me CONSIDERABLY!


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  • Yes, just above my post I think. EBliss-at 11:34 this am


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  • blackmoon

    Here is the latest interview with Geo-Scientist Leuren Moret from May 20. People, she is the ONLY SCIENTIST who is telling us the COMPLETE TRUTH.

    She explains WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE COMING YEARS!

    Fukushima Tectonic Nuclear Warfare Monitored By World Haarp Partners.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/ExopoliticsTV#p/u/2/Z95xcFW8lPU

    In a few of her interviews and lectures, Leuren Moret said that Fukushima’s control center was infected with the StucksNet virus, to insure that this HAARP generated EVENT would have the maximum impact.

    Here in some info on the StucksNet virus, and judge for yourself.

    The article is titled – World encounters a new type of global terrorism.

    http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/02/18/44989190.html


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  • blackmoon

    Dr. Rima Laibow from the Natural Solutions Foundation, discusses Fukushima:

    http://www.oraclebroadcasting.com/archives.php?stream=/Rima/Rima.2011-05-29_16k.mp3

    Here she gives information on how to protect ourselves from radiation:

    http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=8838


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  • ConceptRat

    As with many others on this I also believe that there’s far more going on underneath this tidal wave of media nonsense.

    I’ve been tracking all of the reactors systems charts since the announcement of the possible breach of containment. I managed to dump most the figures directly from the reporting directly from the system charts and I’m continuing to do so now. What I have noticed is that someone has begun removing several of the readings from some of the days. I have only just noticed that by comparing the dump results from a week ago with now.

    I wonder what the significance of the removed days readings are. I shall do another read tomorrow.


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