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In reply to the discussion: What's happening at Fukushima? [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Radiation is good for sea stars, and all that.
It is becoming well known that it isn't the radioactive atoms that cause the killing, but that the suppressed immune systems that are fighting the radioactive atoms are left defenseless against other attacks on bodies.
There is even a name for it: RAIDS. It is like AIDS, (with the 'R' in front for Radioactive), which doesn't kill so much as suppress our immune systems allowing other diseases to kill us.
And, we know, that atmospheric depositions which landed on the coast and were washed into the ocean, is the foremost RAID factor. And now the plume from Fukushima is creeping ashore. I fear we've seen just the beginning of our problems.
Checked the sea stars research page and they still don't know why the sea stars are dying. Same as when AIDS first hit humans.