A row developed over the controversial decision to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.

  • @Sterile_Technique
    link
    English
    171 year ago

    “Radioactive” doesn’t really mean shit without a dosage. It’s a scary word and all, but pretty much everything is radioactive to some extent. You can literally measure it using bananas.

    So, how much radioactive water are we talking about? How radioactive is that water? At what rate is it being released into the ocean? How much radiation can the local plants and critters tolerate before it becomes a health risk for them?

    And the most important question: is sushi about to become affordable??

    • @alvvayson
      link
      101 year ago

      In the past ten years, South Korea has already released five times as much tritium in the Sea of Japan than Fukushima will release.

      Nobody stopped eating sushi.

      But this time it’s scary because Fukushima is scary.

    • eltimablo
      link
      fedilink
      71 year ago

      I dunno, man. I can get sushi for the same price as a big Mac meal now. Not because it’s gotten cheap, though. It’s because Big Macs meals are like $15 for some reason.

      • ripcord
        link
        fedilink
        11 year ago

        Because they learned they can price gouge ever increasing amounts and people keep paying it