Japan announced it will start releasing radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean starting Thursday. The move has been condemned by a number of Pacific nations, including China. Wang Wenbin: “This is extremely selfish and irresponsible. … China strongly urges the Japanese side to rectify its wrongful decision and withdraw its plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea.” Hong Kong and Macau said they will impose a ban on seafood imports from 10 Japanese prefectures. Opponents in South Korea and Japan have ramped up protests since the plan was approved last month by the international nuclear agency. This is a protester in Tokyo. Fumitaka Tsuzumi: “The nuclear disaster happened in Japan, and Japan should send a solid message to the world. But the government told the world that it’s safe without showing any scientific evidence. That’s really outrageous. In the future, the children will bear the burden and have health issues.”

Japan announced it will start releasing radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean starting Thursday. The move has been condemned by a number of Pacific nations, including China.

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Also, I saw reddit libs downplaying it, coming up with excuses about low radioactivity, and why it’s not a bad thing, so they can go back to brunch. All because it’s Japan doing it, which can do no wrong. If it were China, they’d be frothing at the mouth. frothingfash Fucking clowns. They couldn’t care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment, the safety of food, and public health. At this stage, anyone who supports these sort of crimes against public health deserve the absolute worst. stalin-gun-1

  • cynesthesia [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep 100%. This is not a big deal. The water is being effectively treated, they are doing dilution on site before release, and they are discharging into the ocean, which is a pretty fucking big place. Radioactivity is in everything (see NORMs) so the question isn’t “is this wastewater radioactive” it is “how radioactive is this water compared to typical seawater” and “how much dilution is required for any radioactivity to be below detection limit”