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Radioactive water in the ocean is just a start (nbcbayarea.com)
7 points by ronnykylin on Aug 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



>"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.


Taiwanese 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/2023/08/23/2...


Also, 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.


Please 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.




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