5/27/2011

Japan’s radioactive sushi and seas

Nearly every day in Japan more radioactive news leaks out…

Radioactive sea life off Japan

AFP | May 26, 2011 02:09 AM US/Eastern
…Greenpeace said it detected seaweed radiation levels 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 shellfish…more...

…Yikes! I’m lucky to be vacationing in the mountains of Colorado right now (even though the level of natural background radiation in the Colorado foothills is higher than Tokyo, post Fukushima Meltdown).

UPDATE:

Posted by Taro in General | 7 Comments »

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7 Responses to “Japan’s radioactive sushi and seas”

1. Teach Engrish in Scenic Fukushima Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 1:42 am

   Unemployed? Behind on the rent? Credit card debt? Well we have just the right solution for you:

   Teach English in Fukushima!

   That’s right you can still ride that gravy train in Japan, get laid and get payed! Come on down!

2. supertyphoon Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 2:26 am

   Super typhoon Songda strengthens; may hit Fukushima nuclear station :(

3. Taro Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 9:19 am

   Teach Engrish in Scenic Fukushima wrote:
   …you can still ride that gravy train in Japan, get laid and get payed!…

   She-e-e-it!
   The radioactive salary of 210,000yen per month for teaching engRish in Meltdown Fukushima is BELOW the average salary of a night clerk in a 7/11 convenience store in Tokyo.

4. Den4 Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 9:20 am

   Amazing…the need to have gaijin tourists and folks explain to media that Japan is safe…..
   http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/05/26/a-message-to-tourists-japan-is-safe/

5. Taro Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 10:52 am

   High radiation found on seabed in 300-km stretch off Fukushima
   Kyodo | May 28, 2011
   Radiation levels up to several hundred times normal have been detected on the Pacific seabed in a 300-kilometer-long area off the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the science ministry said Friday. The ministry said high-level radioactive materials were detected on the seabed in a north-south stretch ranging from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and warned the contamination could affect the safety of seafood. The science ministry said it detected iodine and cesium on the seabed at 12 spots 15- to 50-km from the coastline between May 9 and 14.

6. Derp Says:
   May 28th, 2011 at 12:32 pm

   Japanese people will be turned into mutants next time we see them.

7. Japanese Power Plants vs Zombies Says:
   May 29th, 2011 at 3:52 am

   Japanese Power Plants vs Zombies (Japanese version)

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