12212012911 was about to experience his first, and last, real seafood dinner. It was a "gift" from the state for him making it to his 18th birthday. And because 12212012911 was a debt-dragger his next experience would be his conscription into the US military.

The year is 2040 and pretty much all the US military consists of debt-draggers. These are the kids that inherited the debt of their parents when they were born. This was made possible with the passage of the "Parental Responsibility" act of 2020. The default rate on loans, especially college loans had become so high that President Paul Ryan said it was the only solution. Media1, now the only news outlet left in the US after the last merger, said his decision was one of incredible bravery, demonstrating astonishing leadership qualities.

12212012911 was born Winston Cliffton. But after the enactment of the "Freedom to Travel" act of 2020, everyone was given a unique consumer number and smart card on which it was encoded. When asked for, the card had to be given to any authority, and the number verbally repeated to that authority. People were now stopped so often, and had been repeating their consumer number so often, that they just stopped using their parent given names.

Winston's seafood meal was the first of his life because, seafood was now so contaminated that it was only recommended that it be eaten once or twice in an entire lifetime. The radiation contamination really started in earnest after the Fukusima release after the Japanese Earthquake of 2011. But things got much worse after the even larger chain of earthquakes that occurred in December of 2018 off the West coast of the US. Those massive quakes and the resulting mega-tsunamis resulted in nuclear plant disasters that dwarfed Fukusima.

Then to add insult to injury, all environmental regulations in the Gulf of Mexico were eliminated after the massive oil spill that occurred there in December 2012. It was determined by the Koch environmental sub committee that the Gulf would never recover, so the "Free the Gulf" act was passed which made the Gulf the first of many "environmental freedom zones" where corporations could do what ever they deemed "reasonable" to the environment.

So Winston took his first bite of real seafood. Seeing his seafood was considered 80% real fish ©lean it only had a moderate taste of petroleum, and metals. But it still was very good. He pondered if he should indulge in seconds on the states tab. He knew it could significantly shorten his life, but when he thought about the $850,000 of his parents debt he now had to pay back, and the idea of six years of fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iraq, made up is mind for him. That afternoon he enjoyed three helpings of his tainted seafood banquet.

For more of what may lay ahead in our collective futures check my blog:
http://what-could-posibly-go-wrong.blogspot.com/

Wasn't this another one of those things we have suspected about the operation?

I wonder why I bothered to quit smoking.

Some freakin' "experts". What are their names, Rip van Winkle? Every gallon of cooling water that has been pumped into the outer containment vessel since March 11 has been vented into the sea.

Again, Common Dreams editors rise to the top of the media trash heap by giving us old recycled "news". Trash tabloids like News of the World at the supermarket are providing better and more current coverage.

Radioactive water might have found its way into the Pacific ocean and experts believe it could contain strontium.

It seems perfectly obvious to me that MOST of the contaminants have gone into the ocean.

And the beat goes on,, and on,, and on ,, and on... And TEPCO officials are still saying they plan to have a cold shutdown by the end of the year.... Uh-uh, nope, not this year... A col shutdown of the three melted down reactor cores is impossible.

Prior to todaty's new leak there already was a very serious isue of radioactive poisons enter the ocean.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2011/11/2011113032018309952.html

A new report shows the March 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan is now also responsible for the world's worst nuclear sea contamination and the prefecture's governor has called for all 10 of the area's reactors to be scrapped.

During the peak of Ukraine's Chernobyl cataclysm of 1986, the Black Sea was registering 1,000 becquerels per cubic metre of water; this appears miniscule in comparison to nuclear levels at Fukushima's peak recorded at 100,000 becquerels.

Scientists first believed the ocean would dilute the radioactivity, but Al Jazeera has learned that dangerous concentrations of radioactive caesium remain.

The fate of the Pacific Ocean turns on a few dozen sandbags.

I think stuffing the leaks with TEPCO executives and their shareholders would be more effective at stopping the radioactive water.

In a couple of years, wild-salmon, returning to the Pacific Northwest, will swim far inland, to the headwaters of streams and rivers where they were born. There they will spawn, die and contaminate entire watersheds with radioactive waste.

Gadzooks, don't the Japanese play football? Don't they know you can fit all of the world's nuclear waste into a football field? WTF?

http://what-could-posibly-go-wrong.blogspot.com/
Go here. This is some good stuff from NCTom

And on the surface, where the fishes don't venture, things are not rosy either.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111260001

"Radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have now been confirmed in all prefectures, including Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, according to the science ministry."

"The ministry said it concluded the radioactive substances came from the stricken nuclear plant because, in all cases, they contained cesium-134, which has short half-life of two years."

"Before the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, radioactive substance were barely detectable in most areas."

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Fukushima Plant Leaks Radioactive Water
Radioactive water might have found its way into the Pacific ocean and experts believe it could contain strontium
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Well. No freaking crap. Really?

And we want to BOMB nuclear reactors in Iran! Think about it. A leaking reactor is a national catastrophe, but most of the radioactive materials stay in the reactor. We are planning to intentionally BOMB nuclear reactors and refineries, blowing their whole contents into the atmosphere. When the royal families of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia all suddenly take holidays in New Zealand and Chile, then we know that the next Persian Gulf War is about to start. And figure out how you are going to live your life without driving a car again.

"The workers echoed fears voiced recently by the plant's chief, Masao Yoshida, who has taken early retirement due to an unspecified illness, that there were moments when they believed they would die."

Unspecified? Issues that continue for decades from Radiation sickness, maybe?

For sake of perspective as to the quantity of Strontium-90 estimated to have been released into the sea during this leak:
it represents one part in 100,000 of the amount released into the environment by all the nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere between 1945 and 1980. It represents 1 part in 2,000 of the amount released by the Chernobyl accident.
It is of course a concern when this sort of leak occurs, but one should place it in the context of the Sr-90 already released and which so far has not produced a detectable increase in bone cancer incidence/deaths world-wide over the past 7 decades since nuclear fission was harnessed for weapons and power.

Siouxrose: nothing has been altered by this particular event in point of fact. You and those of a similar mind here will rush to discredit or malign me for offering information that attempts to put it in perspective. I too oppose nuclear power plants, but in ways that differ from you.