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

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    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
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      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
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      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
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        11 year ago

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

  • Narrrz
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    111 year ago

    whole this probably did slightly raise the localised radioactivity of the area the water was released into, I suspect not as much as, say, dropping a banana into the ocean would have.

  • paper_clip
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    41 year ago

    Given the dumb shit that happens in this, the most ridiculous time line, I would lay money on aliens invading, and Fumio Kishida manifesting super powers to defend Japan. It’s in the same ballpark as Trump jumping bail and Dog the Bounty Hunter bringing him, but, you know you can’t completely rule it out.

  • kitonthenet
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    31 year ago

    am I gonna get ten years of conspiracies like Obama faking drinking water

  • UnfortunateShort
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    31 year ago

    Oh boy do I hope he doesn’t die of a mysterious hart attack now. I’m both curious and worried about what would happen

  • @JustAManOnAToilet
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    21 year ago

    I get that it’s safe but we could use fear mongering for good and possibly cut back on overfishing. Just saying…

  • JesseoftheNorth
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    21 year ago

    Pretty hilarious to see people convince themselves that supporting nuclear energy is somehow counter-cultural and anti-establishment, or even anti-capitalist.