Fukushima disaster's marine fallout

[marmar]

Run time: 02:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2-QGDp6WcM   Posted on YouTube: November 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: DevilsT0wer Views on YouTube: 43   Posted on DU: December 03, 2011 By DU Member: marmar Views on DU: 1384

 

A new report shows the March 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan is now also responsible for the world's worst nuclear sea contamination.

During the peak of Ukraine's Chernobyl cataclysm of 1986, the Black Sea was registering 1,000 becquerels per cubic metre of water; this appears miniscule in comparison to nuclear levels at Fukushima's peak recorded at 100,000 becquerels.

Scientists first believed the ocean would dilute the radioactivity, but Al Jazeera has learned that dangerous concentrations of radioactive caesium remain.

Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Fukushima, Japan.

[Downtown Hound]

1. 100,000 becquerels?

I get more than that when I sit on a rock. Somebody on DU told me so.

[chervilant]

2. Sad, really...

I have noticed that Al Jazeera is one of the FEW sources of information about Fukushima. This disaster is one of the most newsworthy events of the year, and the M$M is alarmingly silent about it.

[sulphurdunn]

4. Fukushima?

Is that a big screen TV or a new car model? :tinfoilhat:

[stonecutter357]

3. K&R...

[goforit]

5. A hard lesson to learn... No more Nuke plants

The entire Japanese race will be gone if they don't act.