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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima is Heating Pacific Ocean [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)14. You are amazing.
As a proponent of 'man's greatest water heating apparatus ever made', you now suggest that an out of control water boiling energy source can't heat water? Amazing.
Here is something you may consider... the Fukushima heated water is fresh water. Chemically, it resists mixing with salt water and so it floats on the top of salt water until it is mixed by wind and wave.
What we now have is massive amounts of radioactive fresh water flowing into the ocean. This is a new experience and the first time an occurrence of this magnitude has, well, occurred. So far the science is seeing these changes.
You may not like what you see, but it is significant change.
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Ok, so riddle me this: Why is there a similar yellow blob just off the coast of Iceland?
Electric Monk
Apr 2013
#5
And unless the plant moved north to Aomori Prefecture, then turned right into the Pacific . . .
hatrack
Apr 2013
#56
you know I'm anti-nuke, but you have to show a link between the data and stated cause
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#15