• ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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    61 year ago

    Sigh. People need to educate themselves on radiation. Its not overly complex and it’s actually really interesting. There’s no threat here, bananas are more dangerous.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I wonder how bad this is going to be. I hope my country starts checking for radioactivity in fish imported. Considering that some fish can travel quite far I wouldn’t be surprised if the ones from anywhere near Japan and close countries could have unsafe levels of radiation.

    I read some article last week mentioning that the advanced filtering system for water was practically useless. Hopefully I just understood it wrong.

    • Raltoid
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      191 year ago

      You’ll get more radiation climbing a mountain or taking an airplane ride than drinking water just off the coast where it’s being released.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Oh. That’s great to know. I thought it was more serious considering other countries were banning imports from those regions.

        • @Wholesalechicken
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          11 year ago

          Basically the same logic was applied when Germans voted to decomission their nuclear plants.

      • @xlsma
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        01 year ago

        Great so maybe Japan should use that water for internal consumption then? Obviously they won’t do that, so can’t complain when other countries are uncomfortable with it.

        • Raltoid
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          1 year ago

          Obviously they won’t do that,

          Are you basing that statement on a source or do you have some information on that? Or are you just guessing based on your own emotions, over how you wouldn’t do that?

          • @xlsma
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            11 year ago

            You wouldn’t need scientific proof that most people wouldn’t eat shit either. It’s a reasonable assumption given that after all their analysis, meetings, debates etc their solution is to dump it into the ocean and not for internal consumption. This move is bad for their international pr, so logically if there is a better/more accepted option they would have chose it. Unless you are telling me that this decision is more likely made in vacuum and the decision makers are not very smart.

  • @TimeNaan
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    -61 year ago

    Seemingly for good reason.

      • @pepperonisalami
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        141 year ago

        Yeah, it’s just a popular tactic for politicians to scare people then show that they are working on something to mitigate the “threat”. Immigrants, muslims, the jew, the non believers, the radiation (but not the pollution bcs it is a money maker) etc etc

    • @NOT_RICK
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      161 year ago

      People don’t understand radiation. The water has been treated