One talking point that has been repeated drilled into the minds of the public is that massive amounts of highly active radiation that has made its way into the Pacific – through reactor spray run-off, purpose dumping, leaks from the plant and air-borne nuclear fallout – will be naturally be diluted.
They claim due to this dilution their will be no risk to oceanic life, to humans or the food supply – after all this why the government says there is no need to test Pacific Ocean seafood.
However, as the Washington’s Blog article below reports, a previously secret government report tells an entirely different story and the truth is…
Fukushima Is Likely to Produce “Pockets” and “Streams” of Highly-Concentrated Radiation
The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean.
Remember, the reactors are “riddled with meltdown holes”, building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is a pile of rubble.
The whole complex is leaking like a sieve, and the rivers of water pumped into the reactors every day are just pouring into the ocean (with only a slight delay).
Most people assume that the ocean will dilute the radiation from Fukushima enough that any radiation reaching the West Coast of the U.S. will be low.
For example, the Congressional Research Service wrote in April:
Scientists have stated that radiation in the ocean very quickly becomes diluted and would not be a problem beyond the coast of Japan.
U.S. fisheries are unlikely to be affected because radioactive material that enters the marine environment would be greatly diluted before reaching U.S. fishing grounds.
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