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Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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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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[+] -60 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

Super safe. We should all do it. Sure even the fish'd appreciate it, you absolutely dumbfuck.

How can you possibly think it is safe?

"Only this, only that, only a bit, only so many rads". They're still dumping their fucking issue into everyone's ocean. Fuck off with your Japanese cocksucking behavior. They're terrorists as far as I'm concerned.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you have any evidence to go against the tests in the article or are you just rambling?

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  • [+] -39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Read my update. Evidence? Yes, it is radioactive waste they don't want anywhere on their own soil. That should tell you enough.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Uh huh. You are aware that pretty much everything has radioactivity in it? And that there are serious regulations on the limits of those due to it generally being a bad thing. Those regulations determining safe limits for it. As in, it is safe. As in, no harm is done. When you stay within those limits, you're fine. Just like with every single thing regarding chemicals and waste, and pretty much anything. That is why the regulations exist in the first place.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Well it’s been filtered for all radioactive material except tritium and is well below the level of concentration the UN allows for drinking water. They are not detecting any radiation currently and and releasing the water very slowly over 30 years. Did you just not read the article or what?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You do realize that the ocean has been full of radioactive material for billions of years, right? Uranium oxide is water-soluble. You can literally pull uranium out of ocean water if you know the right chemistry.

    Hell, you're currently being exposed to ionizing radiation right this second. So am I, so is every one. Go outside, pick up a handful of dirt and there will be trace amounts of uranium, and likely some thorium. Have a radon detector in your basement? That's radioactive, and comes from the natural decay of uranium.

    Do you drink well water? Water-soluble oxides of uranium. Which is why damp basements accumulate radon.

    The detected levels of radiation in this discharge water are actually lower than standard background radiation from all the uranium that's literally everywhere.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Did it occur to you that most things in nature have radioactive isotopes and that for nuclear reactors we look for the most radioactive bunch, refine them to remove the least radioactive bits and then use them in reactors?

    If you reverse that process (well, not really a reversal as you now have different atoms) and re-dillute stuff in nature in a sensible way, you're not going to get anything that is substantially above ambient levels. The oceans are tremendously big and the waste water is already quite treated. One is not going to notice a change in relative terms anywhere on earth unless high-precision equipment is used.

    This is not a very-scientifically-accurate comment, but if it was you would not understand so lets keep it like this.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There is naturally radioactive elements dissolved in water and it doesn't really hurt us. We're bathed in radioactivity all day every day and it doesn't really hurt us. Releasing this water will effectively change nothing. There's a lot of water in the ocean and it's already naturally dissolved radioactive elements, like uranium and other things. How is a tiny bit more going to cause harm?

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