Gov’t model shows airborne radioactive plume covering entire west coast of US & Canada on Mar 22, 2011… 10 times more radioactive than plume coming from Fukushima plant on same day — Radiation levels in some plumes had no discernible decrease after crossing Pacific (VIDEO)

Gov’t model shows airborne radioactive plume covering entire west coast of US & Canada on Mar 22, 2011… 10 times more radioactive than plume coming from Fukushima plant on same day — Radiation levels in some plumes had no discernible decrease after crossing Pacific (VIDEO)

Published: April 8th, 2014 at 8:16 am ET By ENENews  Email Article 201 comments Tweet

Fukushima Radioactive Aerosol Dispersion, NOAA: The [HYSPLIT] model was developed by NOAA to follow the transport and dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. In HYSPLIT, the computation is composed of four components: transport by the mean wind, turbulent dispersion, scavenging and decay. A large number of pollutant particles, which by convention are called “particles” but are just computational “points” (particles or gases), are released at the source location and passively follow the wind. [...] March 11th [...] by 16:36 a nuclear emergency was reported. By the early morning hours of March 12th, radioactive emissions were occurring [...] the simulation from NOAA’s HYSPLIT model shows a continuous release of tracer particles from 12-31 March at a rate of 100 per hour representing the Cesium-137 emitted from Fukushima Daiichi. Each change in particle color represents a decrease in radioactivity by a factor of 10.
Notable Features

• Particles with the highest radioactivity were released around March 15th [See also: UN: Fukushima Unit 2 reactor “burst” on March 15th after fuel melted — Radiation doses soon hit highest levels of crisis for many places across region]
• Particles caught in clockwise circulations are embedded in fair weather high pressure systems and their radioactivity will persist for longer periods
• In general, radioactivity reaching the United States showed air concentrations over 1000 times smaller than areas near Japan

The March 22, 2011 NOAA model (above right) shows the West Coast of US and Canada covered in red particles, while the Fukushima site — and all of Japan — are under orange particles.  According to the NOAA above a “change in particle color represents a decrease in radioactivity by a factor of 10”
Watch NOAA’s Fukushima airborne plume simulation here

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April 8, 2014 at 9:18 am Log in to Reply

Unfortunately 3 years later despite an ever increasing drip of bad news from Fukushima, it falls on mostly deaf ears of the population and media.
Even with so much news out, I suspect things are far worse at Fuku…and now WIPP than we will ever know.
Nuclear ignorance is not bliss…it's a living health nightmare.

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Time Is Short

April 8, 2014 at 4:33 pm Log in to Reply

'Stress alters children's genomes
Poverty and unstable family environments shorten chromosome-protecting telomeres in nine-year-olds.'
"Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has revealed. Telomeres, repetitive DNA sequences that protect the ends of chromosomes from fraying over time, are shorter in children from poor and unstable homes than in children from more nurturing families.
When researchers examined the DNA of 40 boys from major US cities at age 9, they found that the telomeres of children from harsh home environments were 19% shorter than those of children from advantaged backgrounds. The length of telomeres is often considered to be a biomarker of chronic stress."
http://www.nature.com/news/stress-alters-children-s-genomes-1.14997?WT.ec
Along with the stress of living in declining (grinding poverty-inducing) economies around the world, how will the stress of this nuclear disaster affect the children in addition to the radiological damage? It will certainly make their immune systems less resistant to damage. More proof that stress does cause physical damage – and not just in 9 year olds.
Another piece of the Fukushima death puzzle.