This simulation map, created by the French Center for Teaching and Research in the Atmospheric Environment, depicts the atmospheric spreading of radioactive cesium-137 over North America from the Fukushima disaster.
The breath of the Genie has now circled the globe once again. In response, an unrelenting campaign of lies and incompetent management have been carried out by both governments and corporations in a vain attempt to blind the world to the catastrophic nature of the uncontrolled explosions, meltdowns and massive leaks that have plagued the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Diahatchi power plant, but some continue to seek the truth.
Estimates suggest as much as 800 tons of radioactive water spill into the Pacific Ocean every day from the crippled reactors at Fukishima. This level of increasing contamination of the Pacific has been going on for 3 years and is expected to continue well into 2015.
No one really knows how much radioactive contamination entered the atmosphere at the time of the massive explosions at the plant and no one knows how much radiation continues to be released into the atmosphere. One thing has been determined, fragments of spent fuel rods were found up to a mile away from the reactors. The lack of cooling water in the spent fuel pools after the earthquake allowed for the burning and vaporization of some of the nuclear spent fuel rods thus releasing unmeasured amounts of plutonium and cesium.
Some expect that the level of radiation in North America will increase ten times above the existing level of radioactive pollution (background radiation) caused by all nuclear bomb testing and the Chernobyl disaster.
But Fukishimsa is not the only problem facing Americans when it comes to nuclear energy production. Roughly 25% of the US Nuclear generating stations are leaking radiation beyond the “normal” release of radiation they emit in the “regular” operation of these plants. Coincidentally approximately 25% of the US fleet of reactors has now reached the age of 40 years, the predetermined retirement age for these massive and dangerous facilities. The reason these aging plants are being approved to operate beyond their designed lifespan and beyond their designed operational capacity is probably connected to the fact that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is made up of industry insiders.
With the United States and China battling for dominance in the construction and distribution of nuclear reactors throughout the? world, it would seem that there is little chance sanity will ever meet with energy generation planning.
The China-Korea Cooperation in the Development of Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System of Radionuclides organization (that’s a mouthful), produced a study in 2013 that is represented by the animation below.
This study presentation provides the predicted dispersion pattern of the Cesium 137 that has and is being released into the Pacific by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This simulation takes the dispersal timeline up to 2041.
The animation was not originally intended to be released and was found accidentally by someone typing in random web addresses, seeking information concerning the distribution of radiation in the Pacific. It should be noted that the data set used to develop this model appears to end after March of 2011, which means that this simulation does not account for the 400 to 800 tons of radioactive water that has been released every day since the disaster at Fukishima.
Unfortunately the government that is paid and expected to protect us has fallen prey to the special interest groups they are supposed to oversee, so it will take citizen organizations like RadCast to help keep us informed.
Edited and Published by: WG
