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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Tests of seawater near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors.

Japan started releasing water from the wrecked Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, sparking protests within Japan and neighbouring countries, in particular China, which banned aquatic product imports from Japan.

Japan and scientific organisations say the water is safe after being filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.

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[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

As totally expected.

I'm no scientist, but even I know the basics of how it works. And then there's the actual scientists...

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 year ago

I talk about it here briefly

It is safe, but 'radio active water release' sells headlines

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

Fuck off with your Japanese cocksucking behavior.

Wat

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

I'm just as confused as you are. That's not what I wrote.

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Frick. I'm a moron. I am so sorry, I replied to the wrong comment.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

Haha all good

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Dude read too much Chinese propaganda

[-] lasagna@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wanna bet most people making a scene out of it don't even use sunscreen?

The sun pumps out some amazing stuff. It happens to be the OG nuclear reactor.

[-] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

The elites dont want you to know this but the Godzillas in the ocean are free you can take them home I have 458 Godzillas

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

On one hand it's weird how people are so upset about this, on the other these morons were talking about radioactive fallout hitting the US right after the tsunami hit. They aren't the brightest bulbs.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah it mostly seems reactionary nonsense.

Like you ca. swim at the top of a pool in a tractor coolant tank. Water is very cool at diffusing radioactivity (if that’s the right term, it’s probably not).

Heck we have legit crashed nuclear subs at the bottom of the ocean, and places we have just straight dumped waste much more potent than this water.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It's only at 4.3 rads. It's not ideal, but it's okay.

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Take some Rad-Way from time to time.

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The solution to pollution is dilution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Because no human activity could ever have effects that accumulate at the macro scale. All that plastic has been successfully diluted and SO2, CO, CFCs and CO2 are all harmless once released.

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

(I mean, we're talking about radioactive water from one nuclear power plant. I'm pretty sure the adage applies in this case.)

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