Study: Fukushima radiation plume already north of Hawaii as of June 2012 (MAP)

Published: March 22nd, 2013 at 10:25 am ET
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Title: Cesium-134 and 137 activities in the central North Pacific Ocean after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident
Authors: J. Kameník, H. Dulaiova, K.O. Buesseler, S. M. Pike, and K. Štastná
Date Published: March 14, 2013

[...] The time series measurements at Station Aloha and in Honolulu confirm model predictions by Behrens et al. (2012) that the radiation plume would not reach the main Hawaiian Islands at least until two years from their release from F1-NPP. [...]

The easternmost detection of 134Cs within the North Pacific in June 2012 was north of the Hawaiian Islands at longitude 162W and latitude 40 N. [...]

Easternmost detection of Fukushima radiation plume in June 2012; Approx. 2,000 west of Oregon/California

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Tom in AZ

March 22, 2013 at 2:15 pm Log in to Reply

I missed that info, TIS. Do you have a link to the boron in the milk?

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- Mack
  
  March 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm Log in to Reply
  
  Here you go, Tom:
  
  http://enenews.com/hawaii-milk-producers-fight-radiation-feeding-boron-cows-goats/comment-page-1
  
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vital1

March 22, 2013 at 5:16 pm Log in to Reply

50 times more Uranium than normal was detected in air over Hawaii on the 21.03.2011. The fallout had already reached Hawaii way before this study states. The Uranium didn't arrive by itself.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/on-321201150-times-more-of-uranium238-was-measured-in-the-air-of-hawaii-than-2010/

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- We Not They Finally
  
  March 22, 2013 at 11:24 pm Log in to Reply
  
  I read somewhere recently that uranium was found in people's urine in Hawaii. Don't remember the source.
  
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  - Mack
    
    March 22, 2013 at 11:55 pm Log in to Reply
    
    One of the sources is good 'ol Enenews:
    
    http://enenews.com/report-doctors-hawaii-finding-uranium-patients-urine-video
    
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- Arizonan
  
  March 23, 2013 at 3:27 pm Log in to Reply
  
  I think the airborne fallout was certainly deposited across the globe in the months March-June 2011; however, I think this particular study is focused on waterborne fallout, or how far the ocean currents, rather than air currents, carried these long-lived carcinogenic and mutagenic substances.
  
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- Arizonan
  
  March 23, 2013 at 3:29 pm Log in to Reply
  
  I think the airborne fallout was certainly deposited across the globe in the months March-June 2011; however, I think this particular study is focused on waterborne fallout, or how far the ocean currents carried these long-lived carcinogenic and mutagenic substances.
  
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Mack

March 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm

The abstract says:

"The radiation plume has not been detected over the past 1.5 yr at the main Hawaiian Islands due to the transport patterns across the Kuroshio and Kuroshio extension currents."

So the Kuroshio currents are protecting the main islands of Hawaii from radiation….SO FAR.

Heart of the Rose

March 22, 2013 at 2:41 pm

Buesseler..is down playing this..

Update on the Whereabouts of the March 2011 Tsunami Debris
By Nikolai Maximenko
Honolulu, December 4, 2012

http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/news/marine_and_tsunami_debris/2012/12_12_Tsunami_Debris_Update.pdf

March 22, 2013 at 2:50 pm

Japanese tsunami debris makes its way into Hawaiian birds
March 11 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/us/hawaii-japan-tsunami-debris/

It stands to reason…the path the tsunami garbage goes..so will the radioactive water.

Pu239

March 22, 2013 at 10:59 pm Log in to Reply

Don't know if anyone is noticing, the disinfo-artists are posting and reposting the same bogus articles everywhere:

High cost of radiation panic
Japan's shutdown of nuclear energy after 2011 quake makes no environmental or economic sense
By: Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax
[Posted: 03/18/2013 1:00 AM ]
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/high-cost-of-radiation-panic-198729391.html

But, they have conveniently included a FactCheck Box which if clicked allows you to correct their falsehoods:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/high-cost-of-radiation-panic-198729391.html?story=High%20cost%20of%20radiation%20panic#factCheckBox

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- We Not They Finally
  
  March 22, 2013 at 11:34 pm Log in to Reply
  
  Looked up one of the authors, Robert Peter Gale in Wikipedia. He's a LEUKEMIA expert with a history of research funded by the NIH. Apparently, whatever he has found fit to live with, is way worse than even the cancers he diagnoses in others. Not to diminish any physical suffering for the afflicted — this is just a cancer of the soul. The widespread corruption in the scientific community is like a Nazi horror story. MIT even has "a TEPCO chair" and UC Berkeley "predicted" only a few hundred cancers at the most from out of this.
  
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We Not They Finally

March 22, 2013 at 11:26 pm Log in to Reply

That's a good point. Debris will only go where the currents carry it.

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March 22, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Awesome musical vent..
March 12 2013

They Don't Care About You (Fukushima radiation awareness) 3-11-2013 | Organic Slant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfgi6YO7d8

kintaman

March 22, 2013 at 4:48 pm

Thank you TEPCO (INEPTCO), GE, Toshiba, Hitachi…you absolute morons.

Mad Scientists

March 22, 2013 at 5:59 pm Log in to Reply

Petition needs signatures

"Don't Let General Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba walk away from the Fukushima Disaster!"

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/They-profit-you-pay/

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- Pu239
  
  March 22, 2013 at 11:07 pm Log in to Reply
  
  Signed – very enthusiastically too.
  
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We Not They Finally

March 22, 2013 at 11:21 pm

The previous article cited (at the bottom of article above), was dated APRIL 3, 2011, and said that "Ocean may be 50% of EPA's maximum contaminant level for drinking water." That was just three weeks after the meltdown! Does that mean that the ocean water just off JAPAN was already that contaminated? And what would that mean for the ocean water once the currents would reach HAWAII two years later (= now!!); and how can/should the additional contamination since then be computed in? It's daunting to even contemplate. Does anyone know how to even ESTIMATE this?