Starfish dying in the NW Pacific

[RobertEarl]

183. Summary

Starfish, also called sea stars since they are not fish, are dying off in what some scientists describe as the worst case they have ever seen. And they don't know why, exactly.

The Pacific ocean, and indeed, the whole N. hemisphere has, since 3/11/11, been on the receiving end, via airborne deposition, the nuclear materials escaping from the Fukushima power plant's explosions, and over 1000 days of radiated water flowing into the Pacific.

For years the US Department of Energy has been sampling the organisms on Alaskan Islands to determine the effects of weapon testing. That testing found radioactive materials from Fukushima explosions in it's last test cycle in April of 2001, just a month after Fukushima blew.

In that testing, besides Cesium and Uranium, was found appreciable amounts of Plutonium in mussel flesh.

Sea stars eat mussels. If a mussel has plutonium in its flesh and the sea star eats it, it eats plutonium.