Dangerous Reminders ?
There is Cesium -134 that is being detected for the 1st time in Canadian salmon , the sample fish is being detected in seawater samples from Gold beach and Tillamook Bay in Oregon , due to its short shelf life , Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are saying that it can be coming from no other place but Fukushima . The Fukushima InForm department , led by Jay Cullen , who is a chemical oceanographer is reporting these findings . The Japanese Government is re estimating the cost of the disaster to 188 billion , but can go up if foreign countries seek damages . A tremendous amount of contaminated had been released from the destroyed nuclear power plant , after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. I lot of Radiation was released into the air and then was spent into the sea . We also have a Radiation Plume ( that spreads from Alaska to California ) is moving to the west coast … ( at the speed of a garden snail ) . Cesium -134 has a half-life of two years , while Cesium -137 has a half-life of 30 years , the scientists wrote that , the radiations levels have not peaked yet but believe levels will increase by next year due to the plume getting closer the west coast . They also believe that those levels won,t pose a health risk . The Oregon samples , were taken in January and February of 2016 and later analyzed , they measured 0.3 bequerels per cube meter of Cesium -134 . In Canada , head researcher (Cullen ) is leading the InFORM project to examine the radiological risks to Canadian oceans . The group found a sock eye salmon, taken from the Okanagan Lake in the summer of 2015; that was tested , was found to have a presence of cesium -134 . The level of cesium in the fish is 1,000 times lower than the dangerous levels set bet the Health organization in Canada and isn,t a risk to the consumers , Cullen said . Their main concern is still the failed power plant in Japan and will any more leaks happen. ( Molten fuel Rods ) by the hundreds of tons , still remain inside of the failed reactors and could still melt though the concrete ( steel reinforced ) and into the ground and then into the sea, again . But they believe that was is out in the elements would take four to five years to reach the west coast …