[BenLurkin]

Image: Natalie Renier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[montag813]

This is a bad sign

[bgill]

Brings a whole new meaning to night fishing.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Bookshelf]

“Cesium has long half-life...” Can someone verify this. As I recall Douglas Macarthur wanted to salt the China-North Korea frontier with radioactive cesium to halt the entry of Chinese troops. The argument was then that cesium did not have a long half-life.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Last Paragraph of the article: As noted, the amount of radioactive cesium observed doesn’t pose a public health risk, but this latest study indicates that radioactive material can be transported far from accident sites. At the same time, the discovery adds another layer of complexity when deciding how to best manage a plant—and where to put it.

As always when scary articles like this are published they are long on speculation, vague on actual levels of radioactivity and missing recognized allowable concentration. Also we get vague references to irrelevant facts like "...approximately half of the 440 operational nuclear reactors in the world are situated on a coastline." The cesium detected is the result of a major accident not the normal operation of undamaged reactors.

Nuclear reactors are not "accidents waiting to happen" any more than Lawfully armed citizens are terrorists waiting to slaughter innocents.

[tet68]

Come for the tidal waves, stay for the beautiful
cesium beaches.
Enjoy exotic glowing seafood.

You’ll love staying in this rambling traditional
Japanese house in quaint Fukushima...