Pt. 1 - Fukushima Contamination - Dr. Ken Buesseler
Channel: eon3
Date: 2015-10-03

"Fukushima from Two Sides of the Pacific" 

This is Pt. 1 of a Sept. 2, 2015 event in Pt. Reyes, CA.

[ Editors' note: This relatively unconcerned stance of Buesseler's appeared to change a bit the week after this talk when he spoke in Canada after the Japanese typhoon caused massive flooding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXKLz3X9aU...  ]

Marine biologist Dr. Ken Buesseler, is Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity.

Introduced by Mary Beth Brangan, Co-Director of EON, Dr. Buesseler reviews his findings so far in his on-going citizen-funded project monitoring the continuing radioactive contaminiation from japan's Fukushima triple nuclear meltdown.

Within months of the Fukushima disaster, Ken Buesseler assembled an international research cruise to sample the waters surrounding the nuclear plant.  

To date, important fisheries remain closed due to cesium levels above Japanese limits for seafood.  Ocean currents are bringing the radioactive particles released from Fukushima to the West Coast.  

Buesseler now monitors over 50 sites along the West Coast, from Alaska to Mexico, with citizen-scientist funding and participation.  

In june of 2014 off the coast of northern California and April 2015, in Ucluelet BC, radioactive cesium from Fukushima was detected in ocean water samples.

For more information: OurRadioactiveOcean.org, Fukushima Response Campaign on FaceBook