No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday.

Tritium was not detected in the latest sample of two olive flounders caught Sunday, the Fisheries Agency said on its website. The agency has provided almost daily updates since the start of the water release, in a bid to dispel harmful rumors both domestically and internationally about its environmental impact.

The results of the first collected samples were published Aug. 9, before the discharge of treated water from the complex commenced on Aug. 24. The water had been used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the plant but has undergone a treatment process that removes most radionuclides except tritium.

  • @[email protected]
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    -609 months ago

    I don’t doubt nuclear power works. I just know how humans work. Everything we build we also destroy. Let’s not take the planet with us.

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        This here is capitolist FUD, but I’m sure in all your great wisdom think humans can be trusted not to fuck up a 5th time.

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          All you said that was humans mess up everything we do, as if that were something meaningful to say. That is not an argument against nuclear. That’s an argument against absolutely everything humans do. It’s meaningless. Look:

          I don’t doubt solar power works. I just know how humans work. Everything we build we also destroy. Let’s not take the planet with us.

          I don’t doubt coal power works. I just know how humans work. Everything we build we also destroy. Let’s not take the planet with us.

          I don’t doubt hydro power works. I just know how humans work. Everything we build we also destroy. Let’s not take the planet with us.

          I don’t doubt steam power works. I just know how humans work. Everything we build we also destroy. Let’s not take the planet with us.

          All of those are exactly as meaningless as what you wrote. So don’t go on snarkily about my “great wisdom” like you’ve made any point at all. Nuclear is safer than oil and coal and gas, which is where the majority of the world’s energy comes from right now. Fossil fuels are actively destroying our planet right now, and you’re spreading nuclear FUD about things that haven’t happened. That’s not helpful, and it doesn’t match the reality we live in.

            • @[email protected]
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              59 months ago

              Methinks the troll doth protest too much.

              Your motives are clearly just trying to rile people up, you haven’t provided a single cohesive argument.

              It’s so cute how hard you’re trying

              • @[email protected]
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                -59 months ago

                Aww you caught me 🤭

                I have no facts to give you other then humans are too dumb and fickle to be trusted with something as temperamental nuclear power when solar and wind exist.

                😳 thanks for noticing

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              Anyway, I’m done with you. You sound like a shill.

              Lol.

              The famous last words of someone who has no point to make but can’t even admit it to themselves.

              I wrote an honest reply to you and I even bothered to Google some sources for you to refer to. You didn’t even reply to what I said and just came back spouting more non sequitur garbage.

              It’s shameful. You should do better than this. Be better than this.

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          129 months ago

          There’s nothing more capitalist than pushing coal and oil.

          And any rational green energy advocate knows it’ll take us decades to build enough solar/wind to fill the fossil fuels gap, but would only take us a couple years to fill that demand with nuclear and also produce fewer emissions. That’s simple numbers.

          So are you just irrational or a coal-snorting capitalist yourself?

          • @[email protected]
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            -119 months ago

            Show me this “fossil fuel gap” when it takes a decade for a nuclear power plant to run at full efficiency.

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          ???

          The USSR and Russia were huge players in nuclear technology and contributed a lot to the field. I actually can’t think of an energy source that has a closer connection to communism.

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        It wasn’t even necessarily the design, although that didn’t help. It was the bureaucracy that stopped them from doing anything about the problem.

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          I feel like there was enough issues on damn near every level that the term “compounding issues” comes to mind. Seriously its one of those situations where if it wasnt one thing that wrnt wrong it wouldve been something else.

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        Chernobyl was about the worst case scenario, and most of the blame is on dogshit soviet designs.

        It’s happened three other times since then…

        Edit: one other time

        • @[email protected]
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          139 months ago

          Where and when were the 3 other nuclear meltdowns? I wasn’t able to find anything with a quick search, maybe I’m not looking for the right terms.

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            159 months ago

            I guarantee other person was referring to 3 mile island like most people do when talking about “nuclear disasters”.

            Solet’s review the casualties and damages!

            Oh wait, you mean nothing happened to hurt people or cost tons of money in damages?

            And it was almost entirely hyped up by media outlets trying to make this their chernobyl?

            And anti-nuclear propagandists who are almost entirely paid by fossil fuel companies?

            You know, THAT 3MI “Meltdown”.

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              29 months ago

              And anti-nuclear propagandists who are almost entirely paid by fossil fuel companies?

              They’re dastardly clever. They’ve created a narrative that it’s fossil fuels companies who are actually pushing nuclear technology. I suspect they’re also behind the unusual opposition to hydrogen – if hydrogen is ubiquitous, it’s going to be green hydrogen more likely than not. By trying to stop that, fossil fuel companies are able to continue selling and using hydrogen from refinery operations.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      This is the most ridiculous argument I’ve ever seen against nuclear energy. “Sure it works, but people are evil!”

      I can apply that to everything. Communism? I don’t doubt it works, but humans build and also destroy.

    • Hypx
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      Nuclear is way safer than just about any other energy source.