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Radioactive water in the ocean is just a start
- dist-epoch 3y agoPlease flag this scare-monger anti-nuclear decel article. More people die of coal mining than ever did from nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is good. We need a lot more of it. Stop scaring people. There is more radioactivity in a banana. This water is safe to drink, as proven by a Japanese minister. Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy. There are extensive defenses against all possible scenarios.
- rado 3y agoTaiwanese report The tritium concentration is to reach maximum levels in about four years after the discharge starts, but it would still be far below normal background radiation levels https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/08/23/2003805146 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/08/23/2...
- A_D_E_P_T 3y agoAlso, this stuff isn't persistent: The half-life of tritrium is just ~12 years. In a few decades, this discharge won't be detectable anywhere.
- sithadmin 3y ago>"the water is treated and diluted to levels that are safer than international standards, and so far, testing by TEPCO and government agencies has found no detectable radioactivity in seawater and fish samples taken after the release." Releasing contaminated water at a rate slow enough that it doesn't seem to raise ambient radioactivity levels certainly seems preferable to hoarding contaminated water that could be released en-masse due to another earthquake, weather event, containment failure, etc.