NOTE: This dispersion model was completed early in the disaster and assumed a finite dispersion of contaminated water from the reactors.
"Assuming a total release of 9 PBq of 137 Cs from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the marine environment (only including liquid releases on the Pacific Ocean), the simulation is carried out up to 2041."
As was learned in just the last day or two the cyclones and other storms are washing huge amounts of radioisotopes into the rivers and streams and washing this into the ocean as well. This runoff is not accounted for in this model.
(LINK---CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE MODEL AND EXPLANATION)
Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing, poisoning, destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay...We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead. – Jose Antonio Lutzenberger, Brazilian Minister for the Environment
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