By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
According to scientific models, very low levels of Fukushima radiation will hit the West Coast in April, starting with Settle and then California. Scientists say that this radiation is too low to harm the environment or humans.
USA Today stated that “no federal agency currently samples Pacific Coast seawater for radiation”
“We have none happening now and we have none planned,” said Washington State Department of Health’s communication director Tim Church.
Ken Buesseler is a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Buesseler wants more and official testing and a move from Washington. “How will we know it’s safe?” without results.
Even after the 2011 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that caused Fukushima nuclear meltdowns of its three reactors of its Daiichi power plant, Japan’s radiation is still leaking out—this time spreading through the ocean far and wide- and still at home through law suits, deaths, denials and contamination. Over 15,000 people have died from the disaster and 6,000 injured to date.
Oregon State Parks spokesperson, Chris Havel, noted that Oregon’s coast witnesses less radioactive debris than the previous two years. State efforts appear to be winding down. They are not using the same methods that others are to track the coming radiation.
They are tracking it by its unique signature- radioactive cesium 134- which is one isotope from after a nuclear meltdown or weapons testing. It has already been tracked seeping into Canada, in the Gulf of Alaska. Cesium 137 found in the ocean is a result of old nuclear weapons testing, with longer half-life.
The concern is that the real levels of radiation may not be getting picked up using present methods and that they are not being accurately attributed to Fukushima.
In Japan, the misinformation was pretty high. The “stop worring” about Fukushima radiation campaign is at work all over the web as they face-off with activists and environmentalists.
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