U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
He said it was intended to be a “show of solidarity.”
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The level of ignorance around any nuclear related incident is astounding
Yes, the ignorance is mainly caused by governments and lobbies keeping quiet about what actually happened and washing down data
More like, ignorance caused by my local news deciding to run a story telling people there is a controversy, without making a simple statement like the water is less radioactive than a banana. There's a controversy in part because the media encourages it, at almost every opportunity.
If you believe it's safer than a banana why don't you go living in Futaba? I heard the houses are pretty cheap there
Most folks, including nuclear advocates, have little understanding of either fission products or neutron activation. They really have no need to. I don't think the data isn't there if you look for it though. It's just not simple to understand.
Truly. The evacuation order itself killed more people around Fukushima than radiation did.
I want to know more about this do you have an article you recommend?
Damn that's pretty sad
It is. And it’s maddening that people just say the word Fukushima as evidence against the viability of nuclear power. Radiation is such a boogeyman to people. Not well understood. And I don’t even think people know that there was a tsunami that killed 2000 people. 1 death from radiation - a plant worker.
Sure, let’s discard a high capacity, carbon-neutral, baseline-capable form of energy over this.
People don’t even know that smokestacks on coal fired power plants spew radiation into the atmosphere. The fact that nuclear deposits it in barrels is actually a plus.
Also, no news piece ever mentioned how far from the coast Japan is planning to release that water
Why would that matter, do living things cease to exist once you get farther from the coast?
we generally eat fewer of them farther from the coast
It's reasonable to be concerned about the long term health effects of tritiated water. It's very unlikely this will have any effects though. It's only like a few grams. I bet fusion power would produce a whole lot more, even through the blanket. That could have considerable local health effects.