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A quick background for those who aren't following things. The oceans have become particularly DEADLY to plants and animals, fish, and mammals in the last 5 years. Large scale die-offs are almost a daily occurence. Even the top of the food chain, Whales, have been affected and are seeing NOAA certified "UMEs" Unusual Mortality Events, aka mass die offs. Seals are starving and the rescue centers can't keep up.
Fishing seasons have been halted because of very low populations. Bird species have died by the hundreds of thousands, all found starving, nothing in their stomach. Seriously. Some people are calling it the "Death of the Pacific". Google it, get this on your radar.
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I believe that I may have discovered the smoking gun describing how radiation can be killing off so many important parts of the food chain, and decay chain on land and in water.
Chitin is a polysaccharide biological structural polymer found in
exoskeletons, like krill, insects, crabs, beaks of squid etc, and combined with
calcium carbonate to form shells of crustaceans. It absorbs
radioactive fallout.
Some additional links from a Fukushima Researcher, also deals with Bioaccumulation
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/01/fukushima-pacific-ocean-radiation-and.html
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/01/fukushima-pacific-ocean-radiation-and.html
Chitin, is an extremely important building block of many types of organisms.
Radiation
- blows up the skeletons of important sea life at the bottom of the food chains like krill,
- destroys fungis,
- damages mushrooms,
- and it destroys the structural veins of insects wings.
See all the little snippets on Chitan from the "Dictionary_Of_Science.pdf"
"As destruction travels up the food chain, we are currently at the Murres."
Murres are birds that feed on small fishes, this article explains a bit. But beware, they are blaming it on "global warming" and El Nino, which doesn't make any sense in my book. A 1 or 2 degree change in temperature is not going to wipe out a food chain. Seeing that this article also takes it to the next level of absurdity, calling it a human warmed ocean.
http://robertscribbler.com/2016/01/15/did-the-human-warmed-ocean-ocean-just-kill-8000-mures/
In 2011, after Fukushima, ALL the flies went away....for a full year. When the flies came back, I also starting feeling more healthy again. How can this be?
Flies with broken wings would not do well...how could all the wings get broke? Simple, they are made of Chitin. from
http://animals.mom.me/flies-transparent-wings-10244.html
SUMMARY
What plants and animals are hardest hit? Simple---the ones that rely heavily on the chitin organic molecule.
- Whales they eat krill
- Murres, they eat fish that eat krill
- Reindeer and caribou die offs, they eat lichens/fungi
- Insects are dying their wings are made of Chitin
- In particular Bees are seeing a mass die-off, they use chitin in not just their exoskeleton, but also their eyes, stingers, and more. Damaged chitin lets parasites and viruses get in.
- Butterflies use chitin in their wings, not just for structure for also creates optical colors
- Birds that eat insects are dying
- Krill have an exoskeleton made of Chitin
- Fungi have biological structures made of Chitin
- Sea Stars eat critters that have lots of Chitin, they can digest it and then absorb the bioaccumulated radiation.
Chitin absorbs radiation and Chitin has its chemical structure destroyed by radiation.
After Three Mile Island and after Fukushima in Hawaii...all the flies went away for a year. Fly wings are made of Chitin.
No Chitin Sherlock, the smoking gun uncovered.
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Radiation destruction of chitin
[en]
The change in functional composition and molecular mass of crab, shrimp, and Antarctic
shrimp (krill) chitin under the effect of ionizing radiation has been studied.
By
electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy it was established that primary radicals
appear in positions 1 and 4 of the pyranose ring with subsequent breakdown of the
glycoside bond analogous to cellulose and chitosan decay when γ-irradiated. {RADIATION}
A scheme
of radiochemical transformations of chitin is suggested
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stock here--supporters of the Nuclear Industry will often throw out their deception that "but the level of contamination in the ocean is so small compared to natural radiation". They completely ignore known science using the "Concentration Factor". Some life forms will bio-accumulate, or bio-magnify if you will, up to 2 Million times what is in the water around them. See this table. Note that they are not usually testing for Cesium and Strontium in these tests, but those could also be a darling of the heavy metal uptake and deserves a deeper look.
http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/5671763
Par for the course, seems like the "scientists" are always concerned with exploiting a natural process and never use their intuition to also assess....what potential ramifications does my research have for protecting the eco-system.
Apart from clogging, shading, corrosive, and degrading effects, the
major interest of many researchers was the fouling-mediating role of
biofilms
from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425911/
So they neglect to think....perhaps these biofilms that are on almost every marine plant or animal could be concentrating metals into the "host" plant or animal. They know it happens, but only parse the question in terms of how it could affect "fouling".
the passage of chemicals and radiation across these membranes is
modulated by microfouling quite analogously to what is happening at the
living surfaces of marine organisms covered by epibiotic biofilms.
However, this insulating or filtering function of biofilms is much less
studied in epibiotic associations because typically these biofilms
cannot be maintained structurally and functionally intact in the absence
of the host.
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stock, in my mind, a distinction should be made in the bioabsorption,
and concentration of radionuclides and the destruction of the chitin by
the same.
For example, mutation could come from the concentration or
precipitation (think ion exchange resin) of chitin and its effect on
DNA, as opposed to sheer structural degradation. Also there is an
important time factor. So as an insect is growing or hatching, the timed
polymerization of chitin must be VERY critical. Rather than structural
degradation, a speeding up or retardation of polymerization during that
crucial stage could result in poor wing shape etc.
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So interestingly enough….Chitin is researched as an effective
"sponge" to soak up Uranium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, strontium,
Cesium.
Hmmmmmmm
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwithqDyxPDKAhXJ4D4KHROGBOYQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Fpdf%2F10.1080%2F00223131.2002.10875518&usg=AFQjCNF-n6vwofG8MZnojs0XbY1Y-8zhZw&sig2=oJKe5oPJNsbewnGD9_kFdA
A background on Chitin, they are thinking for commercial development
http://slideplayer.com/slide/4415459/#
And here is another lengthy scientific article on Chitin as a cleanup material for nuclear waste.
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/te_1336_web.pdf#page=192
Another large die off has been Sea Stars, sometime known as Starfish. This has been a collapse based on an infection of sorts, a wasting disease. But Sea Stars have little use for chitin, with one huge important exception....they eat hard shelled animals and
Sea Stars can DIGEST Chitin, thus releasing the absorbed radiation of chitin into themselves. Sea Stars use chitin and turn into proteins for their bodies.
Some herbivores, such as goats and some ruminants can digest cellulose, breaking them down long chains of polysaccharides. Similarly, echinoderms can eat shellfish, sea urchins and mussels and digest chitin, breaking mechanically only ones with hard shells.
Radiation is well know to reduce resistance to disease. Curiously enough in the graphic from a 1971 Woods Hole report they indicate how Plutonium (a major and deadly release from Fukushima) found that although Mussels do bioaccumulate radiation, the Sea Stars that feed on the Mussels had an additional 4 times Concentration Factor beyond what the Mussels had.
The Mussels had a mean Concentration Factor of 260 for Plutonium. The Seastars, 4 times that.
Source:
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/radionuclides-in-sediment-vs-seawater-and-in-plankton-marine-invertebrates-e-g-sea-stars/
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More information and link resources, just slamming them in here now, for Intuitive Exploitation later
CodeShutdown
Chitin absorbs and concentrates radionuclides. This is part of the
familiar bioconcentration/bioaccumulation story. The concentration
factor for heavy metals can be hundreds, thousands or even millions of
times. The reason I started thinking about chitin is because I was
looking for a natural organic ion exchange resin. They use ion exchange
resin to concentrate and isolate cesium from ocean water for
measurement. Chitin is well known for its heavy metal absorption and
chelation. More is unknown than known about chitin and how it is
controlled in biology.
"Despite decades of intensive research, many events associated with
the complexity of chitin formation and deposition are still obscure, or
only partially understood. The list includes the hormonal control of CS
at the transcriptional and translational levels as well as the
post-translational CS packaging; trafficking and guidance of CS clusters
to proper sites in the cells and their intricate insertion into the
plasma membranes; activation of the catalytic step and its control or
modulation; and translocation of chitin chains across cell membranes,
their orientation, fibrillogenesis and association with other
extracellular structural components such as polysaccharides (fungi) and
cuticular proteins (insects)"
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rattleshark put this link up at nukepro. Shows how bioaccumulation of plutonium works in shell creatures in ocean.
Not as bad as Chitin based animals like krill that can multiply as much as 2 MILLION times! But some of these show Pu multiplication into their shells and muscles (pun intended) of almost 2000 times what is in the water, in just 90 days….I wonder about 5 years….
http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/22/m022p059.pdf#sthash.MvbdQffD.dpuf
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Ontological
Another authoritative source discussing chitin
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885081/
The little one says "I heard it's the Algae" and then the junior high one says...."Lil' Sis, This is a Fin 
stock here---these animals are STARVING! algal toxins may play a damaging part now, although it had minor effects prior to 2013.
