Greenpeace warns of radioactive sea life off Japan

[Playinghardball]

Source: AFP via Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse

TOKYO (AFP) – Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation far above legal limits.

The anti-nuclear group, which conducted the coastal and offshore tests this month, criticised Japanese authorities for their "continued inadequate response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis" sparked by the March 11 quake and tsunami.

Greenpeace said it detected radiation levels in seaweed 50 times higher than official limits, which it charged raised "serious concerns about continued long-term risks to people and the environment from contaminated seawater".

It also said that tests, which it said were independently verified by French and Belgian laboratories, showed above-legal levels of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in several species of fish and

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/26/greenpeace-warns-of-radioactive-sea-life-off-japan/

[madokie]

1. After seeing what can happen when something does go wrong with nuclear power plants

to me only a fool would advocate the building of more of them. Personally I think we should make damn sure the ones we have here are phased out at the very least as their original designed lifetimes expire. Nuclear energy should never have been allowed until they had the technology down pat where they knew exactly how to handle them when something unforeseen does happen. Shit happens you know. The three major nuclear accidents that the world has seen from Russia to the USA now to Japan its pretty plain to see that the technology wasn't ready for the big time. Its like anything else once you let something get started like prematurely allowing them to be built it sure is hard to stop it going forward. We've wasted 60 years on energy that was sold to us as too cheap to meter when we could have been building alternates. Thats sixty years we'll never get back. Possibly the planet will never be able to continue supporting life as we know it because of that mistake of going nuclear rather than investing in and building alternates. The nuclear industry has proven time and time again that they can't be trusted to be honest with us and I doubt that any one of us would do business with someone who we know up front that they can't be trusted. The red flags were there from the start but the truth was no where to be found. We seen that when we started asking about the waste back in the early '70s when PSO tried to force a nuclear power plant down our throats here in Oklahoma. We were successful in stopping that one and I'm happy that we did, I just wish more would have taken the road we took and stopped the others sited around the USA.

The danger that nuclear power plants poses is not rocket science

[fatbuckel]

5. Ya know there`s more radiation pollution from weaponry than power plants.

[madokie]

7. Thats another issue that needs to be addressed also but it doesn't take away from what I said

DU munitions should never have been allowed and if you want to see what exposure to radiation, both inhaled and ingested can do check out Fallujah sometime. The dick and w should be at the dock at The Hague right this minute too. Along with the rest of the White House Iraqi group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Iraq_Group

[RT Atlanta]

2. Uh oh

Gotta laugh somewhere...

[uponit7771]

3. I the only one thinkin what I'm thinkin after reading this headline, how Broderick doin these days?

[BlueIris]

4. Anyone who thinks the United States' (and other nations) won't be affected by Japan's crisis

needs to wake up.

[madokie]

8. Yes they do

but the shills for the nuclear power industry won't ever admit mistake and they'll cloud the issue with blather and bullshit

[hunter]

6. I think I'd rather be an inedible radioactive fish than sushi.

Overall, humans tend to be worse for the environment than radioactive contamination.

It will be interesting to see how the environment responds to the reduced human predation.