Here’s a recent blog post from Deep Sea News debunking the most alarmist predictions of the dangers posed to Hawaii and the West Coast of the U.S. from radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster (“True facts about Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster“).
The post is written by Kim Martini, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Here’s her introduction.
On March 11th, 2011 the T?hoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and ocean, contaminating groundwater, soil and seawater which effectively closed local Japanese fisheries.
Rather unfortunately, it has also led to some wild speculation on the widespread dangers of Fukushima radiation on the internet. Posts with titles like “Holy Fukushima – Radiation From Japan Is Already Killing North Americans” and ”28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima” (which Southern Fried Science has already throughly debunked) keep popping up on my facebook feed from well-meaning friends.
I’m here to tell you that these posts are just plain garbage. While there are terrible things that happened around the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan; Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast aren’t in any danger. These posts were meant to scare people (and possibly written by terrified authors). They did just that, but there is a severe lack of facts in these posts. Which is why I am here to give you the facts, and nothing but the facts.
You’ll have to read the original post to move on from there.
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Kim Martini, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks is quick to brush off concerns about Fukushima contamination as just plain garbage.
Can you tell us about her? Who is she working for and is she a proponent of nuclear energy?
I found a lot of information about Kim Martini here: http://bit.ly/JsFx2U
Hilarious, Nancy!!!
Yeah, I always treat blog posts from an unknown person as conclusive.
Unknown to you maybe but not unknown to anyone who takes the time to do a little research.
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/martini/
post-doctoral fellow in physical oceanagraphy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Marine Science w Ph.D. from University of Washington (2010) and listed as co-author on four scholarly articles published between 2007 and the present.
No obvious link to nuclear energy industry, and if you read her full article you would see she is a proponrnt for undrstanding basic physics, chemistry, and physical oceangraphy
http://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/martini/
She is an internal wave researcher which is good background for what she discusses but dull as dishwater for the rest of us. Got her PhD in 2010 but has some nice publications. I’d trust here a lot more than many folks.