Fishermen Can't Sell Fish from Fukushima?

[RobertEarl]

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A CBS news report states that fish from around Japan are too radiated to be eaten. It's been two years. When will our technology catch up and end the pollution?

From CBS;

Japan fishing crippled 2 years after tsunami

Ever since last year's nuclear disaster, Niitsuma is only allowed to fish once a week, and he must turn his catch over to a government lab.

Ken Buessler is a U.S. Marine chemist from Woods Hole. He went to Japan three months after the disaster and studied the Japanese government's test results for the next 12 months.

"The numbers aren't going down that fast off Japan since the accident," he said.

"Those reactors," he said, "either by the cooling water that's still being put on there, that's leaking out, or the contamination of the site, are still releasing cesium to the ocean."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57574739/japan-fishing-crippled-2-years-after-tsunami/

[cantbeserious]

1. Personally, I Would Never Eat Fish Again Between Fukushima And The BP Gulf Spill

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[Mnemosyne]

4. They have been serving radioactive school lunches in Japan. Spreading it all over the country, as if

that will lessen the effects. Ay, yi, yi.

I won't touch seafood either, same reasons.

[cantbeserious]

5. The Risk Of Early Death Is Not Worth The Benefit - Plain And Simple

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[Mnemosyne]

6. Not at all. Those poor kids... nt

[cantbeserious]

9. Agreed - Children Suffering Is Not Good

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[spanone]

2. when big oil can lasso the sun....

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Why would anyone expect the contamination to get better yet?

Were they expecting dilution of it in the water? Did they think that the halflife of cesium to have changed? This is very disturbing, but very predictible.

[Trillo]

7. That's the spin of the alleged "chemist" in the story:

Surprise that it is not going down. Another example of a reasonably well trained and intelligent person misleading?

[RobertEarl]

8. Yeah. Predictable

What was predicted was that they could control the pollution. They told us nuclear was safe. I took that as meaning they would know how to fix a mistake once it happened. They are smart people, those nuclear scientists.

But it is two years now and the mistake is nowhere close to being fixed.
Instead they are just trying to flush it away. In to the ocean.

Have you heard of any solutions? Did the nuclear scientists suddenly go dumb? We needed solutions yesterday.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. We needed solutions to these problems

before we decided to use nuclear power. Just because you have a technology does not mean you use it until you work out all the issues that can arise, or at least the ones that are bound to arise. If that were to have been the case, they would have worked harder at finding the technology to deal with problems. A little late for that.

[RobertEarl]

11. That would have been very wise

Einstein was said to have felt that mankind having such great power as control of the atom would doom man. Because without changing the mode of thinking it was certain to blow up in our faces.

So, while the scientists were very smart, they were not very wise. Otherwise they would have planned for what would happen when it did blow up in our faces.

Of course, in all fairness to the nuke scientists, some did get out of the business when they were ignored for stating the reality that one day a nuke plant would blow up in our faces. They either got out or were fired.

[Curmudgeoness]

14. They got out or were fired?

Oy vey! The saddest part of that is that they would have been the only ones who were capable of figuring out how to deal with the problems that could come up. I know that Oppenheimer was also very vocal about could happen with the power we had unleashed. I suppose that I would mourn the fact that they bailed on us after the fact instead of working to help with the aftermath.

"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite, or they will perish." J Robert Oppenheimer

[flvegan]

12. Maybe stop eating fish anyway?

I know, it takes thought. But we can get there.

[RobertEarl]

13. I like animals. They taste good.

But eating fish is not something that is healthy. They accumulate toxins. Mercury from coal plants is in all fish, and now they have radiation up the yung-yo.

I see you are Vegan? Good for you. Take my title as a joke, mostly. Gave up cows long ago and my health is pretty good. Fish too, recently. It would be highly advisable for people to forgo fish and pigs, and horses, and dogs, and cats and all other mammals, wouldn't you agree?

[SoCalDem]

15. Fish move around

They are not like

[RobertEarl]

16. They are like us

They are top of the food chain. Well, one step down from us.

They do move around, from off the coast of Japan to the west coast of the US. And back.