Canada - Radioactive contamination

Cancer risk linked to radiation levels in fish species after Fukushima

Straight.com,

2 October, 2013

TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS AFTER Fukushima, many fish species still have highly elevated amounts of radioactive cesium from the stricken plant, including species that Japan exports to Canada, according to the Japanese Fisheries Agency’s tests on fish catches.

And Japanese fish and seafood exports to Canada have grown significantly since Fukushima, with $24 million in exports in 2012, up 20 percent from $20 million in 2010, according to Statistics Canada data.

In July this year, a sea bass caught in Japan had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium—10 times Japan’s ceiling of 100 becquerels per kilo in food. It was the second-highest amount found in a sea bass since the disaster occurred.

And in February, a greenling in the harbour of the Fukushima plant had a record 740,000 becquerels per kilo of cesium—7,400 times Japan’s ceiling. Two in five fish tested in July had detectable levels of cesium 134 or cesium 137, radioactive isotopes released from Fukushima.

On average, fish in the 33,000 tests since March 2011 had 18 becquerels per kilo of cesium. In March and April 2011, fish also had 65 becquerels per kilo of iodine 131. (The Straight didn’t count in these averages any fish caught in Fukushima prefecture, where most species are banned from the market.)

Fish caught far out in the Pacific had an average of two becquerels of cesium per kilo.

The Straight used these levels to determine how much radiation the public has been exposed to in Japan and elsewhere, based on fishery data from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

The average radiation levels are below Japan’s ceiling and Health Canada’s much higher ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo for cesium and iodine 131.

But the radiation detected can still cause cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s cancer-risk formula, a leading international standard for forecasting cancer risks from radiation. The

What’s more, the EPA formula underestimates cancer impacts because it doesn’t fully include all research on radiation impacts, in the estimate of Daniel Hirsch, a UC Santa Cruz nuclear expert.

(Also according to Hirsch, Health Canada uses a less accepted cancer-risk formula that underestimates the dangers even more.)

Hirsch helped preside over a study of nuclear-power workers in the 1990s that found cancer rates at least six to eight times higher than predicted by official formulas.

Important! Canadian Fukushima Radiation Updates

By Susan Duclos

Beforeitsnews,

24 October, 2013

California is pleading for acknowledgment about the radiation hammering the West Coast from the massive pouring of radioactive water into the Pacific and the radiation leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from the 2011 earthquake and tsuani.

Hawaii has reportedly gone radioactive.

Alaska is concerned about one of their most valuable resources, Salmon.

The video below is from yet another geographical area, Canada updates on the Fukushima radiation damage, with a synopsis.

Maybe nothing can be done about the global devastation that will affect nearly every man woman and child in the world, in some way or another. Whether it is a family member or friend getting sick, or someone they know or love affected by the sea life damage, or the ecosystem damage as we have already seen that starfish are turning to goo, everything is connected somehow in nature and whether something can be done or not, isn’t the point.

Our health, our economy, our food and so much more will continue to be affected for decades.

No one is highlighting it more than a story here, a story there, without looking at the big picture.

People across the world have the right know all the facts, whether it can be fixed or not and governments are downplaying those facts and the media is complicit by following along like good little puppies.

It is noteworthy that things may be about to get worse very soon as Fukushima is readying to remove 400 tons of spent fuel.

“The operation to begin removing fuel from such a severely damaged pool has never been attempted before. The rods are unwieldy and very heavy, each one weighing two-thirds of a ton,” fallout researcher Christina Consolo earlier told RT. 

As can be seen by the top comment from the video, shown below, this man is providing information people are desperate for, but no one else is offering.

GOBLIN7770 17 hours ago

The way I see it is! we are living on borrowed time at best 5 years.Then it will be hell on earth.I feel for the children.The horror that they will see. BeautifulGirlByDana I salute you bud for trying to warn people.You Sir are a great help putting this info out.So people can prepare.I hope this will not be your last vid.Chin up bud