Could everybody stop falling into the hoax that the Fukushima power plant has contaminated all of the pacific ocean?
Not only has snopes confirmed that the hoax is false but National Geographic has run two features in the past month that are much more informative and well-researched.
Most of the radiation being leaked into the Pacific Ocean is cesium-134, which has a half-life of only two years. Cesium goes in and out of the body like salt, and has had effect on marine populations near Japanese fisheries, however most of the banned sea food is slowly being made acceptable for public consumption.
The real issue now is that some leaks of strontium-90 have been discovered, which is a radioactive substance that stays in the bones of fish and human beings, however much of what has been leaked is cesium…
* the above images are of tsunami ebergy from NOAA, not radiation maps… so there.