Fukushima. It’s like the opening scene of a Godzilla movie. A genetically mutated reptile rising up from the leaked, radioactive waste of a nuclear accident. Crazy idea, right?

Early in 2011, when we first reported on the aftereffects of the 9.0 Richter scale earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the whole world sat on the edge of its collective seat as technicians and emergency responders struggled to prevent another Three Mile Island incident.

Ultimately, the way the story played out in the media, everyone was advised that the situation had finally stabilized. Nothing to worry about. The situation had been contained. Go about your lives, nothing to see. However, as our writer Jim Melvin wrote, “I feel that actions speak louder than words, and prefer to err on the side of caution when dealing with the unknown.”

The scary part of the Fukushima disaster is that as time goes on, more information comes out that reveals just how concerned the world should be.









A Litany of Lies

The following month, in April of 2011, Jim Melvin followed up with an article about three Fukushima watchdog groups who had uncovered that the U.S. government was not providing Americans with “the full picture of the scale of the radiation”.

Jim also revealed that governments appear to be avoiding an all-out panic about the reality of the situation. In March of 2011, the Canadian government scaled back its radiation monitoring efforts, and in the same year, the EPA increased its acceptable “safe” levels of radiation, as revealed by an internal email published here at Top Secret Writers.

The reality is that the problem has not stabilized. In fact, radiation leaks continued on throughout 2012 and 2013. We reported on a leak in September of 2013 where 300 tons of contaminated Fukushima water had leaked out of a storage tank filled with water used to cool the uranium fuel rods before the problem was identified. The radiation was at a level that a person standing a meter away from the contaminated water would receive five times the acceptable “safe” average annual limit for nuclear workers.

It was the fifth nuclear leak to occur in 2013. A spokesperson for the Tepco utility company told the world, “Now we believe that contaminated water has flown out to sea.”

The ramifications of this were not realized by most of the world – however, the worst part of the disaster is likely to be realized by the rest of the world in short order, and most governments across the world probably know about it and are hiding it from their people.



The Spread of Radioactive Particles

While many people have been concerned about the nuclear contaminants traveling across the Pacific Ocean and arriving on U.S. soil by 2014, according to most experts, few people are discussing the earlier arrival of contaminants via the atmosphere via precipitation.

A 2005 paper titled “Simulation of Water Sources and Precipitation Recycling for the MacKenzie, Mississippi, and Amazon River Basins” published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, explains that the seasonal cycle for sources of moisture precipitation in the United States point to the Pacific Ocean for winter precipitation (snow).

The MAGS seasonal cycle is straightforward, where the Pacific Ocean sources dominate in winter, giving way to continental sources in summer.”

The University of Wisconsin describes the winter source for precipitation for the Southeastern U.S. as coming from this Pacific source. The fact that one Missouri man has reportedly measured Geiger counter readings in the snow in his back yard at unusually high levels, should start raising some red flags (please note that his findings have not been corroborated by others yet – take with a grain of salt).

“Winter cP [continental polar cold, dry, stable] air moves over a region such as the NE Pacific, picking up some warmth and moisture from the warmer ocean. In the case of the Pacific NW mountains force the air to rise (orographic lifting) causing rain.”



Meteorologist Joel Gratz of ColoradoPowderForecast.com described how particulates from the ocean make it into the U.S. weather system.

“Oddly enough, snowflakes start as tiny dust particles, which serve as the nucleus (or center) of the snowflake. […] All types of precipitation start out as moisture and we can get it in a number of ways. One example is when wind blows over the ocean or other large bodies of water (like the Great Lakes) and pulls moisture into the air.”

Gratz then describes what would essentially make up the delivery system for the polluted moisture that would have been brought up from the contaminated waters of the Pacific Ocean — falling snow.

“When enough moisture attaches to the dust particle and the ice crystal is big enough, gravity pulls it down out of the cloud and it falls as snow. Of course, this is the recipe for just one snowflake. To whip up a big snowstorm that dumps many inches (or feet!) of snow on a large area, you can imagine that you need to take this recipe and double it up about a zillion times.”

When asked about the evaporation of radioactive contaminants, most government experts tell the media that cesium would not evaporate from the ocean. However, this claim is misleading. Radionuclides can in fact enter into the atmosphere from the process described by Gratz above – it’s known as “sea salt aerosol production” – a phenomenon where the particles lifted up into the atmosphere can include everything from electrical charge to microorganisms and even radioactivity.



This is described in the book Sea Salt Aerosol Production by Ernie Lewis and Stephen Schwartz, as follows:

“Many investigations have dealt with the influence of SSA [sea salt aerosol] on the formation and microphysical properties of fog and rain and its role as an important component of cloud condensation nuclei. Sea salt aerosol is a primary contributor to the ocean-atmosphere fluxes of organic substances, electric charge, radioactivity, microorganisms and viruses, and pollen.”

In other words, the existing plume that’s now arriving along the western shores of the U.S. could potentially pose a significant environmental threat to the United States this winter in the form of contaminated snowfall. It should be stated that there’s no clear evidence yet that this is occurring, but the above explanation is one way that such a scenario could be possible.