The GE Mark 1, a defective Nuclear Reactor design. 24 defective reactors of this type exist in the United States. 3 are located near Athens, Alabama at TVA's Browns Ferry Nuclear facility. The Browns Ferry Reactors have been problematic for many years, including a recent "Red Finding" by the NRC due to defective valves and poor management by TVA personnel at Browns Ferry.
A "grave situation" continues..."if Unit 4 were to catch fire, you would have to evacuate Tokyo...There is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's. All of the above ground testing has less cesium in it than is in the reactor pool at Fukushima 4 right now...Tokyo Electric and the Japanese government are not taking the situation serious..." Discussion on prompt criticality detonation of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3; the denial and ignoring or the detonation which occured at Unit 3.
Fairewinds Associates latest educational video. http://vimeo.com/41633459
More information and links: Fukushima Wall Bulge - http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/fukushima-nuclear-plant-wall-bulge-new-concerns-another-disaster.html
Radioactive Tuna - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_JAPAN_RADIATION_TUNA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Information and links on biomagnification and food contamination as a result of the Fukushima Disaster.
Cesium 137 has a half life of 30.17 years; in the food chain it mimics Potassium. The higher up the food chain the greater the biomagnification as each higher life form ingests the Cesium ingested from the lower life form, particularly in saltwater. It appears the science writer attempts to mislead readers.
Is the information listed in the AP article intentionally false or an uninformed opinion by the science writer? In the case of propaganda, there are usually true statements mixed with fallacy with the express purpose to mislead people exposed to the statement. The writer's statement is submitted as scientific fact, not opinion, the statement in question is an intentional fallacy.
Based on my previous experience with intentional false information by the Department of Defense establishment the statement in question is propaganda. "Don't worry people your tuna is safe," is the message conveyed. However, the facts point toward quite the opposite, your tuna is not safe. Particularly in this case of radioactive element contamination in tuna.
Mercury, like Cesium, is biomagnified. Pacific tuna which has been found to contain Mercury contamination. Mercury in Tuna: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501195628.htm "...Researchers found that open-ocean fish have a much stronger [mercury] fingerprint than do coastal fish, a discovery that opens the door to new ways of analyzing human exposure to mercury." http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8425
REFERENCES (cut & paste reference links)
-- Bioaccumulation of cesium-137 by biota in different aquatic environments. "... the bioaccumulation rate of 137Cs in the fish species in sea water was higher than in brackish water." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11482657
--Biomagnification of radiocesium in a marine piscivorous fish "Radiocesium is the only trace element apart from Hg (mercury) that may be potentially biomagnified at the top of the marine planktonic food chain. We quantified the assimilation efficiency from ingested prey uptake rate from the aqueous phase and efflux rate of radiocesium in a marine piscivorous fish...the biomagnification of Cs137 in Marine predatory fishes is largely caused by the extremely high Cs137 assimilation from ingested prey, despite the high efflux rate of Cs137 compared to those measured in freshwater fishes." http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/222/m222p227.pdf or http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ap/nru/pub_j44.pdf
Tritium in Water and Bioaccumulation of Cesium and Strontium
"The radionuclides cesium-137 and strontium-90 are both fission products with a
radiological half-life of about 30 years. If released into the environment, they can both
concentrate again at various steps of the food chain. The way they accumulate depends
on their chemical behavior."
"Cesium-137 has chemical properties that are similar to potassium. Because the cells in
plants, animals and in the human body cannot distinguish between cesium-137 and
potassium, cesium-137 can be mistaken by the body to be potassium and absorbed as
such. Because most potassium in the human body is found in the blood, cesium-137 can
be found in all parts of the human body." http://www.nuclearactive.org/docs/BF_FS.pdf
Spent Fuel Concerns at Fukushima: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/world/asia/concerns-grow-about-spent-fuel-rods-at-damaged-nuclear-plant-in-japan.html
Flawed MIT Study Used To Dismiss Need For Nuclear Disaster Evacuations: An extensive review has discovered considerable flaws in an MIT study. The controversial mouse study is being promoted as evidence for scaling back nuclear evacuations and evacuation zones. The study, upon closer inspection was found to have numerous methodology problems and misrepresented established research evidence that solidly contradict their claims. The extensive review of the MIT study including a summary of our findings can be read here: http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6081
Nancy Foust www.SimplyInfo.org - The Fukushima Project
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