{"id":15041,"date":"2015-12-07T07:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2015-12-07T07:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:06:32","slug":"fukushima-radiation-increasing-in-north-american-waters-detected-along-a-stretch-of-more-than-1000-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15041","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters \u2026 Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters \u2026 Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Painting by\u00a0Jonathan Raddatz<\/a><\/em><\/center>Ken Buesseler \u2013\u00a0head scientist<\/a>\u00a0at Woods Hole in Massachusetts,\u00a0\u00a0one of the world\u2019s top<\/a>\u00a0ocean science institutions \u2013 has been measuring Fukushima radiation off of the coasts of Japan and North America.<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0governments ditched their radiation testing programs after the Fukushima nuclear accident, Buesseler has to crowdfund<\/a>\u00a0his monitoring efforts.<\/p>\n

Woods Hole\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0last week:<\/p>\n

Scientists monitoring the spread of radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear accident report finding an\u00a0increased number of sites off the US West Coast showing signs of contamination from Fukushima. This includes the highest detected level to date from a sample collected about 1,600 miles west of San Francisco<\/strong>. [Fukushima is a little more than\u00a05,000 miles<\/a>\u00a0from San Francisco. So this bit of radiation has already made it some\u00a068%<\/a>\u00a0of the way from Fukushima to the West Coast of California] The level of radioactive cesium isotopes in the sample, 11 Becquerel\u2019s per cubic meter of seawater (about 264 gallons), is 50 percent higher than other samples collected along the West Coast so far, but is still more than 500 times lower than US government safety limits for drinking water, and well below limits of concern for direct exposure while swimming, boating, or other recreational activities. [However, the government\u00a0raised allowable radiation levels<\/a>\u00a0after Fukushima \u2026 \u201cmoving the goalposts\u201d on what is safe.\u00a0\u00a0A well-developed body of science actually says<\/a>\u00a0that no amount of radiation exposure is safe.]<\/p>\n

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Through a citizen science sampling effort,\u00a0Our Radioactive Ocean<\/a>, that [Buesseler] launched in 2014, as well as research funded by the National Science Foundation, Buesseler and his colleagues are using sophisticated sensors to look for minute levels of ocean-borne radioactivity from Fukushima. In 2015, they have added more than 110 new samples in the Pacific to the more than 135 previously collected and posted on the Our Radioactive Ocean web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fukushima Radiation Increasing In North American Waters \u2026 Detected Along a Stretch of More Than 1,000 Miles Painting by\u00a0Jonathan RaddatzKen Buesseler \u2013\u00a0head scientist\u00a0at Woods Hole in Massachusetts,\u00a0\u00a0one of the world\u2019s top\u00a0ocean science institutions \u2013 has been measuring Fukushima radiation off of the coasts of Japan and North America. Because\u00a0governments ditched their radiation testing programs after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[340,452,10930,1164,580,5510,10931],"class_list":["post-15041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-ken-buesseler","tag-north-america","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-woods-hole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15042,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions\/15042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}