Fukushima: Anxiety and anger over Japan's nuclear waste water plan

Japan wants to release Fukushima's waste water into the ocean - and a lot of people are not happy.

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China and Greenpeace vs scientists. I'll believe the scientists everytime.
- Panic about Fukushima radiation is way overblown. One person died from radiation, a plant worker, days after the accident. There has been no big long term spike in cancer, either. Meanwhile many people died trying to evacuate who might have been safer if they sheltered in place. And 2k died from the tsunami. But what do people remember about Fukushima? Radiation! Nuclear is bad!
  
  I was there during the disaster and I'll just say that radiation is terrifying. You know that it's all around you, but you can't sense it in any way. That's a special kind of fear.
- if you ask these people what background radiation is they mostly just stare at you with huge bambi eyes.
To make it clear: it's common practice to put water for cooling nuclear plants back in the watersource. The "feared" molecules Tritium and carbon-14 are common in this waste water. In lower concentrations, but thats the reason they dilute the water. That's something China and South Korea do every day!
"Alot of people [who dont know what they are talking about] are not happy"
well... there are these huge floating fortresses in the ocean right now... every day the people working on the reactor they will do a complex math problem.... everyday the answer is the same... dilution is the solution... and proceeded to dump contaminated water into the ocean.

gotta love the war machine

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