TEPCO: 950 million becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter of water detected near No. 2 reactor

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34. Because of Fukushima there are *parts of the Pacific* that are currently very bad...

...and no, I'm NOT FUCKING SAYING THAT EVERYTHING IS A-OK, THE FUCKING STUPID WAY HALF THE PEOPLE AROUND HERE RESPOND TO ANYONE TRYING TO PUT HISTRIONICS INTO PERSPECTIVE...

...but the contamination from Fukishima falls way, WAY short of anything that could possibly make any significant change in the overall character or safety of the entire Pacific ocean. WAY short of that.

You don't need to be a nuclear scientist to understand some basic notion of scale. If the radioactive contaminants from Fukushima are represented by this dot:

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...then the whole of the Pacific is like that dot compared to computer screen you're looking at a few million times over. Radioactive contaminants are scary, but they aren't so awesomely, incomprehensibly toxic and lethal that no amount of dilution and dispersal will ever temper the danger, so hideous that anyone trying to calm fears about them must be a shill for nuclear power, or a fool taken in by the shills.

Yes, there is an increased chance of pulling significantly contaminated seafood out of the Pacific, but that risk drops subtantially the further you get from Fukishima, and the further away you get from currents from the waters near Fukushima. As time goes on, contamination will spread further, but it will also become more dilute.

Note that I'm NOT SAYING some stupid strawman argument like "radiation is good for you!" It would be better, of course, if the Fukushima accident never happened. But if a "detectable" level of increased radiation 2000 miles away means that something a normal sample of ocean water goes from x to 1.00001x, the mere fact that such a change is detectable does not mean the water has gone from pristine to deadly poison.