Scientists test sick Alaska seals for radiation

[greiner3]

33. I would direct you;

To fairewinds.com and in particular Arnie Gunderson's videos. He is about the premier expert in nuclear plants; in the world. He disagrees with your premise, conclusion and alternatives. He has put out almost a weekly update on the disaster at Fukishima. He is saying that one of the destroyed reactors has NEARLY done the unthinkable; CHINA SYNDROME. If you have not heard of this term, it was made famous in the Jane Fonda/Jack Lemmon movie about a nuclear plant that NEARLY had its core melt down and begin its way to, China. This is a euphemism. Of course it would not go further than the Mantle. This begins about 30 miles deep. However, there are papers that say the pressure at this point in the Earth's interior is so great that molten magma would shoot up through the resultant hole in the ground. I think you have heard of volcanoes. Anyway, the reactors have not had a complete meltdown yet. However, the radiation clouds are known to have drifted over the Continental US.

Also check out Dr. Michio Kaku (website URL http://mkaku.org/). He is also on vast amounts of YouTube videos where he gives EXPERT insight into the problems of Fukishima. His EXPERT analysis shows that radiation HAS leaked into the ground water in massive amounts and that this in turn has emptied into the Pacific.

From a Wiki article; "Ringed seals have a circumpolar distribution from approximately 35°N to the North Pole, occurring in all seas of the Arctic Ocean. In the North Pacific, they are found in the southern Bering Sea and range as far south as the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan. Throughout their range, ringed seals have an affinity for ice-covered waters and are well adapted to occupying seasonal and permanent ice. They tend to prefer large floes (i.e., > 48 m in diameter) and are often found in the interior ice pack where the sea ice coverage is greater than 90%. They remain in contact with ice most of the year and pup on the ice in late winter-early spring.[7]"

And; "Ringed seals eat a wide variety of small prey that consists of 72 species of fish and invertebrates. Feeding is usually a solitary behavior and their prey of choice includes mysids, shrimp, arctic cod, and herring. While feeding, ringed seals dive to depths of 35 to 150 ft (10–45 m).[4] In the summer ringed seals feed along edge of the sea-ice for polar cod. In shallow water they feed on smaller cod. Ringed seals may also eat herring, smelt, whitefish, sculpin, perch, and crustaceans."

&feature=related is a URL from NASA. It shows the world's ocean currents. A large northern Pacific cold water current is shown flowing from the Japanese islands flowing DIRECTLY to the southern coast of Alaska. It then turns north along the Alaskan coast and goes into the Arctic Ocean.
There is one more thing I think I need to mention; Walruses are also turning up dead from pretty much the same ailments. I think you have heard of a food chain. This is where some animals eat plants and these in turn are eaten by smallish predators who in turn are eaten by larger predators until you come to the 'lion in the ecosystem,' in this case the walruses who's main diet, in certain times of the year anyway, is ring seals.

In this ecosystem first the plankton becomes radiated which is eaten by 'vegetarian' fish. Seals eat at least 1 species of fish (please correct me if I am wrong. I can not find info on this right now.). The seals are eating the fish which have gobbled up the plankton and in turn may be getting sick from the accumulated radiation particles. Some reports say that there has not been much radiation reported from the Alaskan waters. However, as I noted above, the seals and fishes have HUGE territories they travel.

I think your post may not have been well thought out before you posted it. Maybe you could go back and edit it with a more scientific point of view. After all, this is DU and WE do not 'muddy the water' with mis truths and pseudo science.