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In reply to the discussion: Plutonium from Fukushima is a global catastrophe. [View all]questionseverything
(9,645 posts)For 241Am, 239Pu, 240Pu, and uranium isotopes, the reported water concentrations corresponded to year 2000 or earlier........water concentrates...not marine life
Because the Amchitka 2011 sampling event occurred soon after the Fukushima nuclear accident, the biota impacted by atmospheric precipitation showed the greatest impact (e.g., species that live in freshwater or shallow ocean waters) when compared to marine biota living in deeper water. This is because ocean currents are a slower transport process than wind currents. LM scientists anticipate that the marine biota will show the impacts of Fukushima during the next sampling event, currently scheduled to occur in 2016.
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everyone including Robert acknowledges the disease the starfish have, i am saying it is likely that radioactive waste has harmed the starfish's immunity making it more difficult to fight off that disease
ya know the way I understand cancer many of us have cancerous cells for years then something comes along to stress the immune system and all the sudden we have full blown cancer (much like what happened to the crew of uss reagon)
you said my explanation raises more questions, would that be why the starfish dying are so far away? that can be answered by what we don't know