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Bluefin is toast anyway without good solid radiation testing. Radiation has been in the water around Japan for months now as the adolescent bluefin buff up around Japan for their excursionary travels. I'm pretty sure they've already had enough time to contaminate the US/Canadian bluefin fisheries with the occasional radfish.

NAyway, I don't trust Mitsubishi having a "known safe supply" of Golden Fish that they can mix and mingle with less tolerable catch.

@Edano , they still live in the age of IG Farben.

From France: Flamanville EPR will not be put into service before 2016
EDF has announced a new two-year delay in the commissioning of the third generation nuclear reactor EPR. The Nuclear Safety Authority has repeatedly denounced the working conditions on site, the cost, now estimated at 6 billion euro (8.5 billion dollars), has doubled compared to initial projections.

Tunr them into millin dollar fish.

(But just watch. The day of the 7-figure tuna is coming.)

Excellent video. I grabbed it into my show folder. I think I may roll the audio in a song mix. With a disclaimer:
Keep in mind, this deplorable state of affairs for the world's bluefin tuna fisheries was made before the Fukushima nuclear disaster polluted Japan's bluefin waters with virtually every radioactive fission product known to man. Ironically, while Mitsubishi captured the "clean bluefin" market and guaranteed themselves

Of course, then the radiation will wipe out the rest over time unless TEPCO's "plan" suddenly includes reclaiming their waste from the oceans. Man... what a mess.

@RadioGuy Maybe not. In reality, there hasn't been so much radiation leaking to the ocean so far. Although there is still a lot of analysis undergoing, the samples that WHOI took some weeks ago all showed very little radioactive particulates. What we don't know is how much is leaking underground from the plant but that won't go far into the ocean, according to some scientific analysis that I've read recently.

@RadioGuy , so cynical, the survival of a species may depend on its radioactivity! Wasn't there this accolade proclaiming that a little radiation is good for you. The fish may have taken this pronouncement to heart.

Although the bluefin tuna catch this year has been bigger than last year, concerns over radiation contamination from the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has lead to a slump in tuna prices.
However, the county government reassured the public that all the tuna caught was checked for radiation before it was put on the market. www.wantchinatimes.com

@Majj Let me guess. They held a Geiger counter up to the meticulously washed skin of the fish, just like the cattle, right?

Didn't the animal rescue people bag a goat? The rad levels in that will be interesting. Goats are opportunivores.

Sushi Restaurants Drop Japanese Fish on Radiation Fears “Our guests’ safety is our top priority,” said Sari Yong, a spokeswoman for Shangri-La Asia Ltd., the region’s biggest luxury hotel company by market value with 71 locations worldwide. “As a precaution, we have temporarily stopped importing fresh food from Japan.”
The Mandarin Oriental International Ltd.’s flagship in Hong Kong and the city’s Four Seasons Hotel have stopped buying food from Japan. www.businessweek.com

Brittleness factor of aging reactors key restart criterion
Decades of intense irradiation, heat skews cooling equation

In the world of nuclear reactor science and safety, the ductile-brittle transition temperature, which is used to measure the strength of the inner wall of a reactor pressure vessel, is a critical factor.

The steel walls of a reactor vessel wear out through years of direct exposure to neutron irradiation, and when they are weakened they can become brittle with sudden temperature drops.

A high DBTT means the walls can shatter at a relatively high temperature when the vessel is going through the cooling process, similar to pouring ice-cold water into a hot glass, causing it to shatter.

And when it comes to the brittleness factor, the one causing the most concern is reactor 1 at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear plant in Saga Prefecture.
It has a DBTT of 98 degrees, the experts say.
More: search.japantimes.co.jp