The Fukushima Crisis Comes To The States

[unhappycamper]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/fukushima-radiation-arrives-in-alaska-111213



Tepco officials and journalists stand at the H4 tank area at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where radioactive water leaked from storage tank in August.

The Fukushima Crisis Comes To The States
By Charles P. Pierce at 10:00AM
Nov 12, 2013


The catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant -- aka Yesterday's Tragedy -- appears to be ongoing, and Alaska now has become part of the story.

Some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along the west coast. That's raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife. More may be heading toward coastal communities like Haines and Skagway. Douglas Dasher, a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says radiation levels in Alaskan waters could reach Cold War levels. "The levels they are projecting in some of the models are in the ballpark of what they saw in the North Pacific in the 1960s," he said.

That was when we were blowing up nuclear bombs all over the ocean because Communism. This resulted in an extended game of genetic roulette for the local populations. This was in no way a good thing. Meanwhile, back on site, it appears that local quality control may not have been what it should have been (h/t the C&L gang).

When tons of radioactive water leaked from a storage tank at Fukushima's crippled nuclear power plant and other containers hurriedly put up by the operator encountered problems, Yoshitatsu Uechi was not surprised. He wonders if one of the tanks he built will be next. He's an auto mechanic. He was a tour-bus driver for a while. He had no experience building tanks or working at a nuclear plant, but for six months last year, he was part of the team frantically trying to create new places for contaminated water to go.

[Demeter]

1. so much for Alaskan cod and salmon

[NickB79]

2. So the worst-case estimates are 1960's levels of radiation in the water?

Who can forget the horrible aftermath that brought about:

The world barely survived that one.