China Finds Massive Nuclear Contamination In Pacific Ocean
How the Nuclear Water Flowed into the Pacific Ocean
China has discovered massive nuclear contamination in the Pacific Ocean. This radiation is a direct result of the Fukushima disaster and far wider than originally reported by the Japanese government.
China has discovered an area about the size of Montana is irradiated. An area of roughly 100,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean waters, at distances up to 800 kilometers from Fukushima, is contaminated with radiation levels up to 300 times normal and Strontium radiation levels up to 100 times normal. China goes on to say that its State Oceanic Administration has found high levels of radioactive contamination throughout Pacific Ocean. China’s State Oceanic Administration said the tests show that the polluted area is far wider than the areas released by the Japanese government. The fear is that with a half life of 35 years this pollution may effect the food supply for years to come.
UN Predicts Radiation Could Drift to US By Friday
The worst fears of those watching the Japanese Nuclear Crisis in the US seem to be coming true. According to monitoring sources at the UN, radiation spewing from uncontrollable nuclear reactors in Japan, could begin reaching California as early as Friday. The good news is that these levels of radiation will not be anywhere near harmful. The real danger is the 50 miles around the burning reactors. This area could be rendered permanently contaminated. Clouds of radiation drifting across the sea will be dissipated and weak by the time they get here. The disaster seems to be escalating hourly with President Obama ordering the evacuation of US citizens from Japan and actually sending planes for private citizens. Russia has also ordered evacuation of territories closest to Japan.
The big difference between the Japan and Chernobyl nuclear disasters is that reactors at Chernobyl had no containment walls. As reactors at Chernobyl began to melt, radioactive material was shot 30,000 feet in the air. Japanese radiation is being spread by ground winds. Some of the Japanese reactors use a dirtier fuel called Mox which uses Plutonium instead of Uranium. Americans are stocking up on Iodide pills , which prevent Thyroid Cancer. No one seems to have addressed the possibility of sea life contamination. The Pacific Ocean around the reactors will be getting a lot of radioactive dust, which will be absorbed by plants and fish. As with Chernobyl, contamination of the food supply is a major concern. As we get more and more technologically advanced the world gets smaller and smaller.
Simi Valley Nuclear Disaster
Simi Valley California was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history in 1959, and the amounts of radiation leaked to the environment and atomosphere were more than 240 times that of the accident at 3-Mile Island. The area is beautiful today, but what still remains from many decades ago?
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August 1st Solar Eruption 2010.C-3 Flare Heading for Earth.
Heading for earth; Should arrive August 3rd, 2010. A flare is defined as a sudden, rapid, and intense variation in brightness. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. Radiation is emitted across virtually the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves at the long wavelength end, through optical emission to x-rays and gamma rays at the short wavelength end. The amount of energy released is the equivalent of millions of 100-megaton hydrogen bombs exploding at the same time! The first solar flare recorded in astronomical literature was on September 1, 1859. Two scientists, Richard C. Carrington and Richard Hodgson, were independently observing sunspots at the time, when they viewed a large flare in white light.
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