Greenpeace: Japan nuclear plant radiation accumulating in marine life

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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/26/greenpeace-japan-nuclear-plant-radiation-accumulating-in-marine-life/

May 26th, 2011
08:31 AMET

Radiation from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is accumulating in marine life off Japan's coast above legal limits for food contamination, Greenpeace said Thursday.

The environmental group said its findings run counter to Japanese government reports that radiation from the Fukushima plant, damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, is being diluted as time passes.

“Despite what the authorities are claiming, radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion of materials, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life," Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte said in a press release.

Greenpeace said its teams collected samples of marine life along the Fukushima coast and in international waters outside Japan's 12-mile territorial limit. The samples were tested by nuclear research laboratories in France and Belgium, and high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium were found, it said.

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1. Largest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world is in Tokyo, about 150 miles from Fukushima

Tsukiji fish market

How big is that? The place brings in about 5.5 Billion dollars a year, alone. Based on their behavior so far, I have every reason to believe the Japanese authorities (not to mention corporate interests) will happily ship contaminated food to the four corners of the Earth to turn a profit.

I am working on trying to find how I can avoid contaminated materials and foods but it's not very easy. For the time being I've given up seafood including my most coveted food of all: Unagi

It may not look like much, but this is just about the tastiest food I know of and to say it will be sorely missed is an understatement:


PB

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3. oh YUM. Yes that is good.

ok i'm hungry now.

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2. Kick

Thanks for the post on this unfolding tragedy.

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4. I'm contributing to Greenpeace after this

they are doing a great job over there.

Radioactive isotopes do not "dilute." They accumulate. To think or say anything else is an egregious lie. I'm not surprised, and if it happened here, the lies would sound similar.