As the El Niño builds to a terrifying crescendo, that won’t peak before April 2024, the Pacific’s Coral Reefs will become stressed, and a bleaching event will unfold as it did in the 2016 El Niño. What is our response? TEPCO and the Japanese government have decided to dump 1.3million tons of radioactive water into my beloved Pacific Ocean. After careful consideration the criminal cohort in Japan have decided to take the cheapest option and dump the radioactive sludge into the adjacent Pacific Ocean.
In the video below, I mentioned that Sea Surface Temperatures hit 38C off the coast of Florida. Here’s the evidence:
“Sea surface temperatures of more than 38C (100.4F) have been recorded off the coast of Florida – potentially setting a new world record.” Sea temperature off Florida reaches 38C- potentially a world record.
Almost every coral reef in the Northern Hemisphere is under stress.
Daily Global 5km Satellite Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Degree Heating Week
“A catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed.”
This is the consequences of the loss of Antarctic Sea ice in the winter.
What does everyone think will happen down there when the summer rolls around, holding hands with a strong El Nino? Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
“This missing area is larger than the size of Greenland, or around ten times the size of the United Kingdom,” Dramatic images show why emperor penguins were hit with catastrophe
Not a chick survived in 4 out of 5 colonies. Not a single Emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of the Antarctica.
We discussed the compounding consequences of the Pacific Ocean being irradiated thanks to TEPCO, the Japanese Government and Fukushima Daiichi. The very same people who triggered this disaster, by building a sea wall half the size their own analysis called for.
My Polynesian neighbours are furious. Niue and Tuvalu ‘concerned, dismayed, disappointed’ with Fukushima release
After our discussion above about grief, I found this spectacularly good article.” The phrase “climate dread” better legitimizes the real and tangible threat coming toward us.” Stop Calling It “Climate Anxiety.” It’s Climate Dread.
Professor McPherson has a Substack account named after his website Nature Bats Last, where subscribers can comment and ask Guy questions directly. Nature Bats Last
Pauline Schneider’s thoughts on this discussion can be read at the following embedded link: Great Barrier Reef’s End Days
“The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite…”
Jules Verne
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
An excellent article Kevin, and a great discussion with Guy. I just saw on the news this morning that China is banning seafood imports from Japan because of the radioactive water release.
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Thanks bro.The decision could possibly lead to war!
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Saying farewell. Knowing what was an what it will never be no matter how hard we cry. A heart can only break.
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I’ve previously written about the threat to the GBR
Fisheries minister apologies for telling the truth.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14994820?fbclid=IwAR1POlDVOIPtuvp8_lbgDYAeTWbRZFwGqWDDjQOupqaOEzrTCdD41I6XrI8
Tritium.
https://beyondnuclear.org/tritium-releases-opposed-as-environmental-and-health-concerns-grow/?fbclid=IwAR1Tq5LuOZkqMiodozsdxRgos7_rRWoRd4XM7cL1-YDdR6rZCaSTZjSIHug
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Telling it like it is…. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357430417_Human_population_activity_the_primary_factor_that_has_precipitated_a_climate_emergency_biodiversity_loss_and_environmental_pollution_on_our_watch
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The latest from Dr Chris Busby
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj-2022-074520/rr-2?fbclid=IwAR1I5sM8a8dCX3ww_8Iqh1L6eBnss-nq3EwU1tyOsm178YMwjFyO7L9E1wk
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Another excellent episode from Nuclear Hotseat with a brief cameo from yours truly.
Others and I interviewed mentioned the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi.
https://nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/nh-645-nuclear-halloween-nightmares/?fbclid=IwAR03u01gn25NxuCvpgvAaUF0kJ7B2mrymHJRqKE4dayZSqyWFEKBu1Z2M44
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We add 13.3 Hiroshima Size Bombs of energy to the atmosphere/second!
https://climatecasino.net/2023/01/how-many-hirsohima-bombs-per-second/?fbclid=IwAR2DV6sKrHomy43Zu4NgOK2h-1p0H6ZoDStfhq-PTHWVfAdEAsCDhP8baeI
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And this is another disaster waiting to happen:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-08/final-canister-of-nuclear-waste-transferred-to-storage-facility-at-san-onofre
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They have buried 3.55 MILLION pounds of spent nuclear fuel between I-5 and the fucking beach, about half a mile between the two. I’ve surfed at San Onofre, and the land where this crap was buried is nothing but sand/sandstone. In an earthquake zone. And a tsunami zone. And there are at least 8.5 million people (2010 numbers) within 50 miles.
The plant has ALWAYS leaked and that’s due to finding kittens birthed there in 1996. What’s a little Cesium-137, Cesium-134, and Cobalt-60, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station
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And then there is Diablo Canyon also perched above a beach that the Cali Gov just endorsed continuing operation. Everything is JUST DANDY!
How many plants on rivers and oceanfronts worldwide? And they will ALL be underwater with rising sea levels… Oh my that isn’t good is it?
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It’s brilliant to have you back Seal, always appreciate your contributions..
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There are probably at least a dozen different things when combined triggered this wipe out but one thing, we can be 100% sure of, is the dumping of the radioactive sludge from Fukushima Daiichi, described as water, didn’t help.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/14/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this-japan-says-reason-behind-1200-tonnes-of-fish-washing-ashore-is-unknown?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2anY-HVIQkr–XPjxd5EZR_riGIwBp-pL7ITrmbYBGi0k-nmR1VC0VhV4#Echobox=1702537712
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Keep going Kevin.
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I will keep an open mind on this ‘event’ but one thing we can be 100% sure about is it did not help the perilous state of our oceans, attacked from all sides, above and below.
It’s the perfect storm.
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-fishes-death-fukushima-nuclear-plant-b2463837.html?fbclid=IwAR38Mhh3x7Io4TgkiyOl56NEfz4OB2u_PfXw0zHl4diKix2pbatte6R0uaY
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In the 2016 El Nino, Cyclone Winston dumped a huge amount of rain on the Great Barrier Reef cooling the “Off the Charts Sea Surface Temperatures,” thereby reducing the damage from the bleaching event.
Had that not transpired the GBR would have been much more devastated than it was.
Coral reefs take about 15 years to recover from a severe bleaching event.
Clearly, they will never get that chance again.
The current El Nino is capable of flipping numerous tipping points. The attack on my beloved Great Barrier Reef is the one that worries me the most.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-19/cyclone-jasper-coral-bleaching-daintree-great-barrier-reef/103361150?fbclid=IwAR3EsmLON88RcItlixK-DnWEzZ6-Lj9-yzfTPjKxtT8eQdbVLdsaewdfK4c
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I’ve sent this email to Tatsujiro Suzuki.
Subject:
Could depleted Oil Wells act as a reservoir for the contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi.
Greetings and salutations:
Further to the impressive work of Tatsujiro Suzuki, the vice director of the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University, I would like to propose that TEPCO, instead of taking the cheapest option and dumping the toxic brine into my beloved Pacific Ocean, already under attack from pollution and the accelerating climate stressors, my proposal is to pump the brine into an Oil tanker and then inject it into a depleted oil well.
The thought of dumping this waste anywhere is a horror story but surely, we can do better than just dumping it into the adjacent ocean.
I don’t see any ‘good options’ for this toxin but a depleted oil well has zero value normally and it would set an example for how to deal with the waste products of the nuclear industry, other than just taking the cheapest option all the time!
I would be truly grateful if you could consider this proposal.
Best regards
Kevin Hester
Aotearoa New Zealand
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1129274?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=btn_share&utm_content=20240221&fbclid=IwAR3VDqPvDPiPKxYz20qG7f6bauJ8lENu10oxlOCElwkL8c5pYCSooswnGmU
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Whoops. Fuku is mentioned in this article, but a lot of this information is still coming out because NOBODY knows how much poison was dumped off of the California coast…nor how close to the beaches.
It’s Not Just Toxic Chemicals. Radioactive Waste Was Also Dumped Off Los Angeles Coast
https://www.rsn.org/001/its-not-just-toxic-chemicals-radioactive-waste-was-also-dumped-off-los-angeles-coast.html
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I somehow expect this to get much worse. That seems to be the pattern.
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Guy and I would rather be wrong than be right:
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/corals-dying-as-yet-more-bleaching-hits-heat-stressed-great-barrier-reef/?fbclid=IwAR3ywpw8j1eQt96epBYl7k74e3t8oStZqosK3ZQOX1v9_yUQJmLUX7J-_HY
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Record Ocean Temperatures Push Coral Reefs to Brink of Fourth Mass Bleaching Event
https://earth.org/record-ocean-temperatures-push-coral-reefs-to-brink-of-fourth-mass-bleaching-event/?fbclid=IwAR1CdCAFmarMr0w-t1-WlzvoZc0tgLiGAXEJCMeIjcIHw8wwwQD-4F0XioY
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Barely covered by The Guardian,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/08/coral-bleaching-great-barrier-reef-australia?fbclid=IwAR3gTrnZQHJGjqpsGdBMeRHHkwwXStUINIjC5kuwdr6AoVIgSkcI3c_xWnI
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This one popped up on my home beach’s leftie/alt news website in an article about the utter stupidity of putting all of San O’nofre Nuclear Plant’s 3.6 million pounds of radioactive waste 100 feet from the ocean in temporary ‘casks’ buried in the sand. Literally buried in the sand, Kevin!!
I have run around and around with two (I presume) lobbyist twins that show up every time something anti-nuclear plant posts on the OB RAG, and for some reason they haven’t rebutted the article yet. Maybe on vacation or something? But it would be pretty hard to smack down something like this vid!
3/11 Fukushima-California Connection
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The Cascadia Fault is primed and overdue, as big as Tohuku’s 9.1 in 2011, but this one is only 100 miles off the coast up here, and goes all the way down to mid-Oregon. Holy shit. The tsunamis produced will in all likelihood wash down the Cali coastline and take San O out sparking a Chernobyl-like disaster as the casks rupture and start burning that will spread with the prevailing winds inland across Southern and central Cali.
And the latest is the Cali governor wants to move all of Diablo Canyon’s nuclear waste (more millions of pounds) to the beach next to San O and bury it.
A complete WFT moment!
The tsunamis will be as big as Japan’s. Japan was far more ready than the US will ever be though some retrofitting has been happening since the fault was discovered in the 90s. We’re more like when the Indonesian quake of 2004 hit, clueless and unprepared.
I read the book about this: Full Rip 9.0; The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, Sasquatch Books, 2013. Big sigh.
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What a cluster fuck, thx dude!
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[…] warming and the additional insult of pouring radioactive wastewater into my beloved Pacific Ocean: Fukushima Daiichi adds Insult to Injury for the Pacific’s Coral Reefs.I’ve been studying “Collapse” since I visited Mayan Ruins in Central America and […]
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“About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors, and Japanese officials say removing it would take 30-40 years. Experts call that timeline overly optimistic.”
I would take issue with the description of the fuel remaining inside the reactor.
Nope, we know that the fuel from three reactors has escaped primary and secondary containment!
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Overheated Ocean Pushes Coral Reefs to Brink of Another Mass Bleaching Event (youtube.com)
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This is a brutal watch with the underwater part starting at the 38-minute mark.
Utter devastation under water!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGBKgFy6Co
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“On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and a subsequent 15-metre tsunami struck Japan, which triggered a nuclear disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Three of the six plant’s reactors were affected, resulting in meltdowns and the release of a significant amount of radioactive material into the environment.”
Nuclear energy cannot lead the global energy transition | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
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Fukushima: still spewing after all these years. And for the next…how many thousands of years? But the lessons are going to be learned the hard way I guess.
Hidden in President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill…is news I didn’t want to read. What a neoliberal he is!
45 years after Three Mile Island, we need a ‘No Nukes’ comeback
As Biden sinks billions into nuclear energy that are stuffed into his ‘Infrastructure Bill,’ members of the historic Clamshell Alliance are reuniting to spark a new wave of anti-nuke resistance.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/03/three-mile-island-45th-anniversary-no-nukes-comeback-clamshell-alliance/
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Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching along Great Barrier Reef
Climate crisis: Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching along Great Barrier Reef (smh.com.au)
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I’ve been scuba diving all my adult life, I once did an 800mile sail down the Great Barrier Reef, diving every day for six weeks.
Watching the largest living organism on the planet being murdered in broad daylight is torture personally, but much more significant is the loss of this ‘incubator’ for the marine ecosystems. It will trigger what Professor Corey Bradshaw from Flinders University called, in my interview with him, “Extinction Cascades.”
Industrial civilisation and its cancerous offspring Capitalism are both “Confidence games” losing the Great Barrier Reef or a city to Wet Bulb temperature extremes, looming currently in the tropics, will undermine all confidence in this set of living arrangements! To quote another guest of mine on Nature Bat Last Arthur Keller “Collapse is the only realistic scenario!”
Ocean Heat Pummels the Great Barrier Reef, Again – CounterPunch.org
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The Great Barrier Reef looks like it has been “Carpet Bombed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3qoLX_LrVkLDGTVbHJbpFtcSJxsP-Nd16uC-nqDbg9fsdfzU1tesFxVAs_aem_AcjNrpTA1T535ejZHhLiWAi2WnWw4uThQqEFb4O9bahqggoPxJ8aZn6b5BF7_pRhnw34U5DrAuZOTDWRfsAnz3M9
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The latest on what the government of Japan is doing to ‘end’ the absolute disaster it has (hidden from the public) turned out to be. Pay attention to the huge increase in “allowed exposure” levels to add to the fun of reading this article:
Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/12/fukushima-disaster-response-is-to-spread-radioactive-waste-to-the-commons/
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Why am we not surprised? Those in power are not only poisoning the Northern half of the Pacific Ocean from the dumping of the stored poisoned cooling water (which still accumulates daily at the site), but seem determined to poison their own population by spreading the contaminated dirt across the main Island of Japan.
Oh wait, the government already is because it’s a seafood-eating country and nothing coming out of the ocean around the island is truly ‘safe’ to eat anymore. Remember, there is NO SAFE LEVEL of radiation exposure and sure the hell not swallowing it!!!
The juvenile tuna fish that are born off the north/east coast migrate to off the coast of Southern California, and all tested showed Fukushima radiation markers in their flesh and blood samples.
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Wait until the Japanese figure out how to export the dirt so TEPCO can start making a profit again! With 9,000 sq kilometers of irradiated forest, they have big money to be made.
Capitalism in action, baby.
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It takes about 15 years for a coral reef to recover from a severe bleaching event, clearly the reef will never get 15 years to recover.
Great Barrier Reef Corals Hit Hard by Marine Heat Wave – Eos
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80% gone
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record | Climate crisis | The Guardian
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And this happened ten days ago a few states to the east of me:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xXVqHEaFRIo?feature=share
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It’s getting crazier and more deadly by the day…
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More melt-downs may be coming if Trump tries to re-start decommissioned power plants like his crap about ‘clean coal’ and opening the mines back up. And I’d assume blowing the tops of more mountains…
The nuclear boys are pushing hard because Russia and China have “safer” nuclear than what
This industry flack is full of shit:
“Cheaper than oil, carbon Neutral, synthetic fuels” is factually incorrect and this guy is recycling the same old outdated and thoroughly debunked claims.
What Trump’s Executive Signing Means for Nuclear Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3-hBzbo0Y
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President Biden pumped more oil than any other president, and Obama built more pipelines than any other president while being #1 in deporting more illegal immigrants…
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Now West Australia’s reefs have been cooked.
‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event | Climate crisis | The Guardian
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In this article referencing peer reviewed papers the word “Hope” is repeated a few times.
We are well above worst case scenarios laid out by the designed to fail IPCC.
There is no place for ‘hope’ in science, it muddies and belittles the analysis.
https://scitechdaily.com/hawaiis-reefs-face-an-unprecedented-acid-surge-and-the-clock-is-ticking/
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The edited highlights from the BBCNingaloo: Australia’s coral reefs bleached by marine heatwave
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From the very first day we all learned the name TEPCO, they have lied to us. Leaving the corporation responsible for the worst environmental disaster of all time in charge of the clean-up is a dereliction of duty from the Japanese government.
Fukushima Daiichi is never, ever going away.
TEPCO Ends 2nd Round of FY 2025 Treated Water Release – The Japan News
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Guy’s latest on the assault on our oceans.
Science Snippets: Why We Must Protect the Global Ocean Forever
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More inconvenient truth, in which few seem interested. Humans appear to be converting a paradise into a world of woe, to be followed soon by human-less planet.
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Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks
Ya fucking think?
At the rate TEPCO has been removing the absolutely GIANT blobs of melted cores estimated at 880 tons, it will take 13 billion years to remove the still burning and extremely radioactive corium from the three reactor. That’s…rather untimely, yes? And Japan is ALWAYS going to have quakes!
It’s too bad they did not listen to their revered ancestors warnings about NOT building within 5 miles of the coastline. This entire disaster could have been avoided if they hadn’t put goddamned nuclear reactors on the coastline in a major earthquake zone prone to tsunamis!
But then they wouldn’t have that wonderful PRACTICALLY FREE electricity from nuclear power, now would they? Oh wait…they don’t run anymore just leak tons of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
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Fukushima Workers Flee Site After Tsunami Scare
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/fukushima-recovery-plagued-with-setbacks/
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And the government of Japan has NOT learned its lesson yet! Just wait until the Cascadia Mega-Quake that is due hits the eastern Pacific Northwest coast and sends another series of monster waves surging past the stone warning makers five miles inland built by those same revered ancestors the last time it happened 300 years ago…that they didn’t pay attention to.
Our species, in general, is very stupid.
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