AbstractMassive amounts of anthropogenic radionuclides were released from the nuclear reactors located in Fukushima (northeastern Japan) between 12 and 16 March 2011 following the earthquake and tsunami. Ground level air radioactivity was monitored around the globe immediately after the Fukushima accident. This global effort provided a unique opportunity to trace the surface air mass movement at different sites in the Northern Hemisphere. Based on surface air radioactivity measurements around the globe and the air mass backward trajectory analysis of the Fukushima radioactive plume at various places in the Northern Hemisphere by employing the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model, we show for the first time, that the uninterrupted complete revolution of the mid-latitude Surface Westerlies took place in less than 21 days, with an average zonal velocity of >60 km/h. The position and circulation time scale of Surface Westerlies are of wide interest to a large number of global researchers including meteorologists, atmospheric researchers and global climate modellers.Science of the Total Environment 438 (2012) 80–85
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Tracking the complete revolution of surface westerlies over Northern Hemisphere using radionuclides emitted from Fukushima
M.A. Hernández-Ceballosa, Department of Applied Physics, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain, G.H. Hong, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan 426–744, South Korea , R.L. Lozano a , Y.I. Kim Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Uljin 767–813, South Korea, H.M. Lee, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan 426–744 , S.H. Kim Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan 426–744 , S.-W. Yeh, Department of Environmental Marine Science, Hanyang University, Ansan, 426–791, South Korea , J.P. Bolívar, Department of Applied Physics, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain, ⁎, M. Baskaran, Department of Geology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA a Department of Applied Physics, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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HOLY CRAP! We are FREAKING DOOMED! I asked all the restaurants where I eat where is the fish sourced from, only about 10% even knew. Globalization doesn't work, I don't trust some crook in my own city, much less 5000 miles away to not give me glowing fish and kill my kids with thyroid cancer. FREAKING DOOMED! President Bush said it best, this sucker is going down!
ReplyDeleteMATT AND TOM ;
ReplyDeletewe looked at the cows' milk in Jersey shore last year when this happened
it was reported that the radiation was found in the cows milk
the way it got there is by breathing
just like Radon ( 2nd killer due to lung cancer though much lower than smoking ) makes it's way into people's bodies
It looks like the total of 200 people will die due to this, maybe. It is like worldwide number of car accident deaths in 2 hours or something.
ReplyDeletehttp://slackwire.blogspot.com/2012/08/fukushima-update-how-safe-can-nuclear.html
PeterP It looks like the total of 200 people will die due to this, maybe. It is like worldwide number of car accident deaths in 2 hours or something.
ReplyDelete1. Radiation is cumulative over a lifetime. If you are in the evening of your life, probably nothing to be concerned with. If in the afternoon, maybe. If in the morning, yes, absolutely.
2. This is not a "isolated" event that is probably a one-off, as it is being passed off as by TPTB. Weather patterns are changing due to climate change, and the trend is worsening according to scientists monitoring it. Existing construction standards have not taken this into account yet. There are also nuclear plants in the US at high risk in the event of an extreme weather event.
PeterP,
ReplyDeleteYou should expand your news base a bit:
http://enenews.com/
http://fukushima-diary.com/