China Claims Fukushima Disaster Has Contaminated a 252,000-Square-Kilometer Area of Pacific Ocean
August 20th, 2011Via: Asahi:
Radioactive substances that leaked from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have spread over far broader areas of the sea than Japan has acknowledged, according to the State Oceanic Administration of China.
An Aug. 15 article in the electronic version of Science and Technology Daily, a Chinese newspaper, cited an ocean environment survey conducted off Fukushima Prefecture in the western Pacific Ocean as part of the Oceanic Administration’s written reply to an inquiry by the newspaper.
The article said that radioactive substances were detected in a 252,000-square-kilometer area within 800 kilometers to the east of Fukushima Prefecture. It said the level of cesium-137 was up to 300 times higher than corresponding concentrations in waters near China. Strontium-90 was detected at levels up to 10 times higher than those found in Chinese waters.
“One cannot rule out the possibility that radioactive contaminants have entered waters under China’s jurisdiction,” the Oceanic Administration was reported as saying.
Interesting(!)to see news out of China! What will they do with their anger over this pollution? Hopefully more than Japan who seems to be asleep at the wheel.
Wondering if someone has a big giant desert of sand that the Fukashima reactor can be buried under? Oops. That’s what they are doing to the peoples in Somalia.
Uh, someone with a desert who is WILLING. But ongoing raditation spew is CRAP! Can somebody tell the people in Japan this doesn’t fix itself, and they need to take action?
The whole food chain in the ocean is being contaminated by Fukassupyoushima, just like with BP in the Gulf,and who gives a crap? And who has the power to change it? I don’t know. Wish someone did.