28 February 2014 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/09 Esfand 1392/29 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture report they’ve caught scorpion fish that are contaminated with as much as 110 becquerels per kilogram of radiation.  That’s much higher than the original government safe limit, which was actually raised to 100 Bq per kilogram after the Fukushima Daiichi nuke disasters.  However, the Fukushima fishing association is maintaining their own standard of 50 Bq limit.  The fishing association says they are down to about 32 specie of fish that are so far within their 50 Bq radiation limit.

A report in The Asia Pacific Journal says the U.S. Navy knew the USS Ronald Reagan carrier group was being hit by high levels of radiation, during Operation Tomodachi.  This is based on recorded U.S. government phone conversations: “…The ship was adhering to that requirement and detected some activity about two and a half times above normal airborne activity using on-board sensors on the aircraft carriers. So that indicated that they had found the plume and it was probably more significant than what we had originally thought. The second thing that has happened is we have had some helicopters conducting operations from the aircraft carrier and one of the helicopters came back from having stopped on board the Japanese command ship in the area, and people who had been on — were on the helicopter who had walked on the deck of the ship, were monitored and had elevated counts on their feet, 2500 counts per minute. But I wanted to get you guys on the line and my expert on the line so we can get the data and then the proper people notified.”-Admiral Kirkland Donald

Notice that what Admiral Donald was saying , not only he is concerned for U.S. military personnel, but he’s indicating that the Japanese navy ships and personnel were already highly irradiated!

The discussion pointed out that after ten hours of exposure USN and USMC personnel would be dealing with a “thyroid dose issue”.   Radiation detectors on the USS Ronald Reagan itself showed levels at 30 times ‘normal’ background.

In San Francisco, California, workers removing contaminated dirt from the old Hunters Point Navy Shipyard report that nobody is conducting required radiation checks, before the dirt is hauled off to a garbage dump.  Kevin Jackson, a truck driver whose been hauling the contaminated dirt to land fills for the past three years, testified at a community meeting: “They would dig it up and load the trucks and take it out. It’s not being tested for RAD.”

Officials from the U.S. Navy told residents that they do not believe all the dirt is contaminated, hence the lack of testing.  However, local news media say that in 2012 the USN stated that all the dirt will be tested.  The scandal was revealed by an unnamed whistleblower who told California officials that “no radiological soil assessment has been or is being performed”, period!

I’ve reported on the pseudo-secret U.S. Department of Energy taxpayer funded radiation detection program in Jamaica and Bahamas.   Now the Bahamian Ministry of Health has revealed they’ve spent more than $80-thousand USD (probably money from the U.S. DoE) to join the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

It was also revealed that this month the IAEA held meetings with Bahamas’ Department of Customs, Environmental Health Services, the Port Authority as well as the Ministries of Health and National Security.  Apparently there is growing concern about irradiated products coming from Japan, or other countries: “Imported products that are at greatest risk from elevated levels of radiation emission will be identified and items found emitting radiation will be returned to the primary source where the imported product originated.”-Perry Gomez, Health Minister of Bahamas