U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
The level of ignorance around any nuclear related incident is astounding
If the radiation levels are truly negligible then the media shares blame for getting people upset over it.
Oil companies are ultimately to blame. After all, it was the Rockefeller Foundation who did the early radiation studies in the 50s, and then blatantly lied about the results to make radiation sound super scary. They claimed that there was no safe dose of radiation, and that any exposure, no matter how small, led to a direct, linear, increase in cancer risk.
And then the oil companies funded politicians who declared education to be the enemy, so now Americans don't know enough physics to know that every day, they are swimming in safe doses of ionizing radiation. That ocean water has millions of tons of natural uranium oxide dissolved in it.
US nuclear policy has been based off of these lies, it's part of why nuclear power is so expensive.
Those same oil companies actually paid to found Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to specifically advocate against nuclear power, by spreading fear and lies about how nuclear physics work.
The Rockefeller foundation still funds Greenpeace, and still requires that Greenpeace be anti-nuclear to receive that funding. All while being heavily invested in oil.
It's reasonable to be concerned about the long term health effects of tritiated water. It's very unlikely this will have any effects though. It's only like a few grams. I bet fusion power would produce a whole lot more, even through the blanket. That could have considerable local health effects.
Yes, the ignorance is mainly caused by governments and lobbies keeping quiet about what actually happened and washing down data
More like, ignorance caused by my local news deciding to run a story telling people there is a controversy, without making a simple statement like the water is less radioactive than a banana. There's a controversy in part because the media encourages it, at almost every opportunity.
Most folks, including nuclear advocates, have little understanding of either fission products or neutron activation. They really have no need to. I don't think the data isn't there if you look for it though. It's just not simple to understand.
Holy crap. This is how I find out that Rahm Emanuel is the US Ambassador to Japan? How is he possibly qualified for that job?
It's a cushy ambassadorship to an ally. A dog could do the job.
Of course a dog could eat some fish.
Ugh I wish you were wrong.
Similarly, the former mayor of Milwaukee is now the ambassador to Luxembourg. He didn't get that because he was qualified, he got it because he did favors for people in high places and it gets him paid to do literally nothing.
Who is he and why is he not qualified? I have never heard of him
Freakonomics Radio did a pretty great interview with him. It's enlightening.
is Biden trying to get rid of Obama's pals?
find out from your nearest kookie-conspiracy channel.
This will be fine for him but I am reminded of Thomas Midgely Jr who popularized using lead as an additive. He showed how safe it was by breathing in leaded exhaust fumes. He very shortly after took a vacation which was really just him recovering from lead poisoning.
Fuck that guy. His death was pretty hilarious though. He got polio and was largely bed ridden. He made a serious of pulleys to help himself work. He got tangled in it and accidentally hung himself.
I know too little about radioactive water and what the acceptable amount is for a person to eat through a fish that has been swimming in it
But holy shit can these stupid politicians who also don't know shit about it stop insulting everyone's intelligence with Simpsons (was literally an episode) like ways of convincing people.
I only trust well regarded scientists and experts, not some slimy politician. Literally kindergarten tier persuasion tactics.
In fairness there have been hundreds (750+) of Simpsons episodes so they're bound to have done some that line up with reality. I'm really sick of people saying the Simpsons predicted something considering those numbers.
Your understating how destructive that man was. He'll probably end up killing more people than anyone in history.
You can't blame global warming on one person, but he was a huge and significant factor in it.
That strikes me as more sad than funny. I don't understand why you would screw yourself over so thoroughly just to try and convince the world that you didn't screw them over. Everyone loses.
When you ego is more important than all of humanity (yourself included).
Money.
He also figured out that CFCs were great for refrigerants and popularized their use.
He was also the inventor of CFCs. What a dick.
Just tritium. Nothing too major about it and it doesn't stick around compared to fission products. Good candidate for dumping into the ocean.
Still believing TEPCO ? They lie since the beginning. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/24/fukushima-fish-with-180-times-legal-limit-of-radioactive-cesium-fuels-water-release-fears
Didn't know Rahm went from mayor of Chicago to Ambassador to Japan.
Something's fishy about Rahm.
Shadows of drinking water in East Palestine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant on Thursday, prompting widespread concerns over contamination and safety.
The decision to release the wastewater has been a controversial one, sparking protests in Japan and further afield in South Korean capital Seoul from antinuclear activists and those concerned about contamination.
The UN has backed Japan’s assessment of the situation, with the organization’s nuclear regulator saying it is safe to release the water, and that doing so will have a negligible impact on environmental health.
Protesters gathered in Japan and South Korea this week to push back against the release of the radioactive water, with much of the concern centering around possible contamination, particularly of seafood.
In July, a public survey found that 62% of South Koreans would cut back or stop eating seafood after the water was discharged, according to news agency Reuters—despite Seoul pledging to closely monitor the release.
In recent weeks, some consumers in China—Japan’s biggest export market for seafood—also questioned whether it would be safe to eat the country’s seafood products after the water was released into the ocean.
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Reminds me of that guy who launched himself against a window to demonstrate how unbreakable they were
To be fair the window didn't break.
Well, the windows didn't break...
At least that would prove/disprove something.
You could eat an unsafely irradiated fish and it’s not like you would drop dead before the last bite.
Still. Anxiety about Fukushima radiation has always been massively overblown.
Quick: without googling, someone tell me how many people died at Fukushima, and how many of those where from radiation.
Straight out of the Obama playbook
"This fish I'm about to eat is totally from the area where the radioactive water was dumped and not something we imported from a clean environment."
Ambassador: Joke's on them, I'm already dead on the inside.
Good. We're going to feed him a bunch of Plymouth oysters if they ever dump the nuclear water from the pilgrim power plant in Cape cod Bay too.
This man will probably end up like Bhagwant Mann
In 1990, as the BSE ('mad cow disease') crisis in the UK was unfolding and shortly after scientists had found proof that the disease could indeed cross species, the Agriculture Secretary John Gummer went on national TV to try to force his four-year-old daughter to eat a beef burger for the cameras, to convince the public to keep eating British beef.
Several hundred people ended up dying from CJD (the human variant caused by eating infected beef). It remains one of the most widely derided photo ops in British political history.
Right but that isn't really comparable. Radiation has been studied for over a century while prions were a total unknown at the time.
Just because one person does one dumb thing on camera doesn't mean that everyone facing a camera does dumb things.
But, if he spits out the fish like Mr. Burns, we’ll have a laugh that will last for decades.
I mean, you can't top George H. W. Bush vomiting into the lap of the Japanese PM. Japan can take it.
It is actively radioactive, but it dilutes fast and decays in a reasonable time. Some of the hydrogen in the water is tritium because of neutron activation. It doesn't really bioaccumulate.
Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiatedwater