Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24
Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, putting into motion a plan that has drawn strong criticism from China.
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Can someone with knowledge chime in to tell how bad that is? I don't trust this article or China for that matter.
Very very small amounts of radiation is not bad. Your body is exposed to this every day.
Japans plan is to dilute the "water" so much that it should be at safe levels while it decays. They're also not going to release all of it at once, which might not be clear to some readers.
I believe their plan is widely recognized to be safe, but obviously there is a lot of fear around nuclear and radiation.
I believe the worry is that this amount has never Been released before, and that while we might consider it safe, there is a chance it accumulates somewhere to harmful levels.
And obvious consumers of fish are already reacting. Would you buy "safe" fish from Chernobyl if you could just as easily buy the same fish from South Korea?
You don’t trust Reuters? Reuters is about as trustworthy and unbiased as you can get. They’re like the gold standard for non-editorialized journalism.
I've always heard it as Reuters is what the markets use to make their "bets" so has to be true enough to inform them.
Here's the IAEA report: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaeacomprehensivealpsreport.pdf
The discharge limit for tritium is pre-defined in the Government Policy for discharges of ALPS treated water as 22 TBq per year, which is equivalent to the pre-accident discharge limits at FDNPS.
I'm also curious about how much discharge nuclear generators normally produce. If they discharge a certain amount as part of normal operation then it seems to me to also become a function of how many nuclear generators are being operated globally.
The Hongyanhe reactor annually releases 4x as many becquerels of tritium. The Fukushima metldown released 5,000x as much. So this is obviously a non-issue being drummed up due to politics. 🙄
seems like might be worse than the report lets on https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/24/fukushima-fish-with-180-times-legal-limit-of-radioactive-cesium-fuels-water-release-fears
Hasn’t got anything to do with this release. Clearly radiative material was received during the accident. That will have made it into the food chain and some fish living near plant will have absorbed some.
This release is about the gradual release of treated water which is measured to be below the existing limit.
I guess we'll see what things look like once it happens.
The IAEA approved the release, so it’s unlikely to be catastrophic. I can’t imagine radioactive tritium is great for fish, but what do I know.
It'll dilute so quickly and thoroughly into the ocean that it might as well not be there. This is a classic case of the public panicking over the word "nuclear."
Nor is pissing in an Olympic pool, but at some point you’re at homeopathic levels and while it “sounds wrong” is actually totally fine.
I don’t trust this article or China for that matter.
Then I guess it's a good thing that this is Japan we are talking about.
I'm fairly confident they were referring to the criticism from China FTA, but you'd need to read past the headline for that context so...
Yes that was it. Chinas comments have been over the top for a bunch of issues in the past, there's no reason to just presume their stance has merit.
Especially since they are starting fires again rn regarding Taiwan and Japan in different context.
China: bro.. radioactive waste should not be dumped into the ocean, the fuck? Are you serious?
Me: 😡 stfu tankies
IEAE: it's just radioactive tritium, how bad can it be? Surely the impact will be negligible
Me: ayyyy fuck them fishes 🤪🖕
Tankie spotted, opinion discarded
China's Hongyanhe power plant releases 4x as much radiation lol. It's fake, unscientific concern being published for geopolitical reasons. I say this as someone who otherwise agrees with most of what the Chinese government has to say.
what sane reason would someone have to agree with literally anything that genocidal corrupt government would say
They usually accomplish the goals they set out to do and have greatly improved the well-being of their people. Egregious corruption has been dealt with - that's old news. And there's no genocide in China. To say that is actually soft genocide denial as it trivializes the word.
Egregious corruption has been dealt with - that’s old news.
lol
And there’s no genocide in China
LOL
mate theres no way to think either of those things without being cooked
You've based your perception of China on fundamentally incorrect axioms, so there's no discussion to be had here. We can talk about radiation if you want.
keep that head in the sand buddy, I'm sure it'll work out for you