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12/17/22 Tsukuru Fors

Googling “Fukushima + Water”

Googling “Fukushima + Water”
Although "the optics are terrible," releasing the water
into the Pacific Ocean is the right thing to do, says Nigel
Marks, a nuclear materials scientist at Curtin University,
in a statement released by the Australian Science Media
Centre. By diluting, the "radioactivity can be reduced tosafe levels" comparable to exposures from medical
imaging and airline travel, he says.

April 13, 2021

Our specific concerns include the adequacy, accuracy and reliabilityof the available data. A key measure of safety is a risk factor thatcombines the activities of more than 60 radioactive contaminants —the so-called sum of ratios approach. However, only a small subsetof these radioactive contaminants — seven to 10 of them, including
tritium — have been regularly measured. The assumption is that
this subset alone will reflect the possible risks and the otherAugust 26,with
2022thiscontaminants are at constant levels. We disagree
approach, as the data show wide variability in the contaminant
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Antony M. Hooker

August 26, 2022

Arjun Makhijani
Robert H. RichmondGoogling “Fukushima + Water”
We conclude that the present plan does notprovide the assurance of safety needed forpeople’s health or for sound stewardship of theocean. We have reached this conclusion as members ofan expert panel engaged by the Pacific Island Forum, aregional organization comprising 18 countries.
However, we have penned this commentary in ourindividual capacities and our views may or may not beshared by the forum secretariat or its members.

Voices of the Scientific Community are crucial.
Tim Deere-Jones, Independent Marine Pollution Researcher“Pacific Island communities are particularly
vulnerable to the impacts of marine pollution.
People living in traditional island lifestyle,consuming island grown produce and seafoods,
working close to marine and coastal environments
and inhaling coastal zone air are predicted to be
the Critical Group (those most likely to receive ahigher dose).”Fukushima Radiation on the U.S. West CoastSource: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

In November 2014, trace amounts of radioactivity from Fukushima werefound in the Pacific Ocean off the California Coast near Eureka.

EurekaSan Francisco
Bodega BayNAPALos Angeles

San OnofreSan DiegoIn April 2015, the highest levels seen anywhere in North America since thetesting program began was measured near a beach between Los Angeles
and San Diego - 8.4Bq/m3 (8.4 Becquerels per cubic meter) of radioactive

● In February 2018 the levels at Pismo Beach were three times higher than theprevious test done in July 2017. The levels have risen five times since testing
began - from 1.8Bq/m3 to 6.8 Bq/m3 of radioactive C137. The results also
showed trace amounts of C134, the marker for Fukushima radiation.
● Both tests done in 2019 showed elevated levels of C137 -4.2Bq/m3 in April
and 4.7 Bq/m3 in December
San Luis Obispo
Pismo Beach

Los Angeles

While Cesium 134 has been detected in the samples only once, the levels ofCesium 137 have increased five times since the testing began. Elevated levelsof Cesium 134 have been found in Bodega Bay (located about 107km/70 minorth of San Francisco) and other places along the West Coast of the UnitedStates. Eureka

San Francisco
Bodega Bay

NAPA

Where do we go from here?
-Our Game Plan in 2023-

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Appealing to Mainstream Media
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Tsukuru Fors: tfors@proton.me