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   California Fish Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation   
   May 31, 2013   
      
   We noted more than a year ago:   
      
   The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.   
      
   ***   
      
   Of course, fish don’t necessarily stay still, either. For example, the   
   Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that   
   it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:   
      
   That might be extreme, but the point is that fish exposed to radiation   
   somewhere out in the ocean might end up in U.S. waters.   
      
   And see this.   
      
   CNN reports today:   
      
   Low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi   
   nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011,   
   researchers reported Monday.   
      
   The bluefin spawn off Japan, and many migrate across the Pacific   
   Ocean. Tissue samples taken from 15 bluefin caught in August, five   
   months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, all contained reactor   
   byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels that produced radiation   
   about 3% higher than natural background sources   
      
   The Wall Street Journal quotes the studies’ authors:   
      
   “The tuna packaged it up and brought it across the world’s largest   
   ocean,” said marine ecologist Daniel Madigan at Stanford University,   
   who led the study team. “We were definitely surprised to see it at all   
   and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”   
      
   ***   
      
   “We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable   
   concentrations of cesium-134 and cesium-137,” said marine biologist   
   Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York state, who was   
   part of the study group.   
      
   The bad news is that it is only going to get worse.   
      
   As Reuters points out:   
      
   Unlike some other compounds, radioactive cesium does not quickly sink   
   to the sea bottom but remains dispersed in the water column, from the   
   surface to the ocean floor.   
      
   Fish can swim right through it, ingesting it through their gills, by   
   taking in seawater or by eating organisms that have already taken it   
   in ….   
      
   As CNN notes:   
      
   Neither [of the scientists who tested the fish] thought they were   
   likely to find cesium at all, they said. And since the fish tested   
   were born about a year before the disaster, “This year’s fish are   
   going to be really interesting,” Madigan said.   
      
   “There were fish born around the time of the accident, and those are   
   the ones showing up in California right now,” he said. “Those have   
   been, for the most part, swimming around in those contaminated waters   
   their whole lives.”   
      
   In other words, the 15 fish tested were only exposed to radiation for   
   a short time. But bluefin arriving in California now will have been   
   exposed to the Fukushima radiation for much longer.   
      
   As KGTV San Diego explains:   
      
   The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this   
   summer when researchers planned to repeat the study with a larger   
   number of samples. Bluefin tuna that journeyed last year were exposed   
   to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been   
   swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will   
   affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen.   
      
   One of the studies’ authors told the BBC:   
      
   The fish that will be arriving around now, and in the coming months,   
   to California waters may be carrying considerably more radioactivity   
   and if so they may possibly be a public health hazard.   
      
   Japanese and U.S. officials – of course – are pretending that the   
   amount of radiation found in the bluefin is safe. But the overwhelming   
   scientific consensus is that there is no safe level of radiation … and   
   radiation consumed and taken into the body is much more dangerous than   
   background radiation.   
      
   SOURCE: http://www.blacklistednews.com/California_Fish_Contamina   
   ed_with_Fukushima_Radiation/26350/0/0/0/Y/M.html   
      
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsTAZpk6-AA   
      
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