Holidays are slowing yet another wave of hysteria over the Fukushima risk.
The newest update in the highly disconcerting series of devastating failures that is the Fukushima cleanup effort is troubling to say the least.
Tepco has confirmed that (unexplained) plumes of steam have been rising from the mangled remains of Reactor Building 3. In other words, there’s a chance Fukushima could be in the middle of another meltdown. …
Mystery Steam Over Fukushima Could Be Sign of Another Meltdown
What do real experts — who have no profit motive for alarming the world public — have to say?
Kim Martini, a Physical Oceanographer at the Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington, would like to put the (grossly exaggerated) danger in perspective:
Deep Sea News:
On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and ocean, contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater which effectively closed local Japanese fisheries.
Rather unfortunately, it has also led to some wild speculation on the widespread dangers of Fukushima radiation on the internet. Posts with titles like “Holy Fukushima – Radiation From Japan Is Already Killing North Americans” and ”28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima” (which Southern Fried Science has already throughly debunked ) keep popping up on my facebook feed from well-meaning friends.
I’m here to tell you that these posts are just plain garbage. …
Rick McCharles 