1/3 of World’s Oceans Poisoned by Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Dangerous Substance Detected in North American Waters [Video]

 

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami, caused by a major earthquake, disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan, causing a nuclear accident. As a result, a large quantity of radioactive material leaked into the Pacific Ocean.

Since the disaster, many observers and researchers have expressed concerns about the safety of the area in which the disaster occurred. The Japanese government has had to defend many times; claims by activists, that large parts of the country have been exposed to dangerous radioactive materials.

However, with the latest news of the disaster, officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have now admitted that almost one-third of the world (The Pacific Ocean) has been contaminated by the nuclear waste that has leaked from the Fukushima reactors.

When the disaster happened, countries based around the Pacific Ocean were on high alert, due to the potential economic and environmental implications of the disaster. This prompted the IAEA, together with the Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) Member States to establish the Technical Cooperation (TC) to monitor the presence of radioactive substances in the marine environment. The TC was also to ensure that seafood from the region was safe for consumption, and to maintain a comprehensive overview and full facts of the accident, considering its grave implications.

The first TC annual review meeting was held in August 2012, to demonstrate predictive hydrodynamic models. Experts then predicted that the strong current, known as the Kuroshio Current and its extension, had the ability to transport the radioactive substances across the Pacific Ocean in an easterly direction. During the meeting, the concentration of radioactivity was not as high as originally thought.

However, in July 2014, a field study conducted by the TC revealed from two sets of seawater samples, that two filter cartridges were coated in radioactive substances – the elements of cesium.

Again, in 2015, trace amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137 turned up in samples collected near Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The samples were collected by an independent monitoring body. In fact, this was the first time that traces of cesium-134 had been detected near North America’s waters. The Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring Network said the only possible source of these radioactive elements is the Fukushima disaster. The IAEA then realized the seriousness of the accident, admitting that the Pacific Waters have been contaminated…..More Here

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