Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors.
Japan started releasing water from the wrecked Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, sparking protests within Japan and neighbouring countries, in particular China, which banned aquatic product imports from Japan.
Japan and scientific organisations say the water is safe after being filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
Read my update. Evidence? Yes, it is radioactive waste they don’t want anywhere on their own soil. That should tell you enough.
…so you don’t have evidence.
Are you illiterate?
They actually looked into other methods, such as evaporation and it’s simply not as safe as this method.
Safe? Safe for whom?? Bury it in a mountain or something, but it is obvious they don’t want it on their soil!
Assholes, ffs.
Uh huh. You are aware that pretty much everything has radioactivity in it? And that there are serious regulations on the limits of those due to it generally being a bad thing. Those regulations determining safe limits for it. As in, it is safe. As in, no harm is done. When you stay within those limits, you’re fine. Just like with every single thing regarding chemicals and waste, and pretty much anything. That is why the regulations exist in the first place.
Why defend them? If it was safe, they’d just dump it somewhere on their own land, right? It totally isn’t safe.
Go watch Chernobyl, because reading and critical thinking aren’t your strong suits.
So you are basing “it’s not safe” on the fact that they are doing the thing that has been deemed safe?
I better go watch that TV show asap.