Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant prepares to release diluted radioactive water into the sea
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant prepares to release diluted radioactive water into the sea
There go my swimming on Korea's east side plans for this year.
I know it might sound odd, but you shouldn’t be afraid to swim in Korea. The water isn’t going to get poisoned or become radioactive, it’s diluted so much that there’s not going to be a measurable difference in water quality. What they are doing is standard procedure, and it’s exactly the way you get rid of such water. It’s safe.
Not only that, water released from Fukushima wouldn’t even go into the Sea of Japan. Fukushima is on the east coast of Japan. Water released from it would be going into the Pacific.
This is such non-news it should be called olds.
Hey, I'm trying to contribute to the World News with some stuff and because I live close by (in Korea) I found it interesting.
Good for you, it's still pretty much non-news though. This is literally happens every day, that's all I meant with my bad joke.
I found it interesting. Thanks for posting.
If it makes you feel better, to put things in perspective, the planned discharge of 22TBq per year is actually a lot lower than what other countries with normally operational nuclear power plants are already doing, including Korea.
I'm not an expert in this field either and perhaps there should be a bigger discussion/education to be had if we should all be dumping so much stuff in the ocean, but IMHO if it was deemed safe when Korea discharged 211TBq into the ocean in 2020, this shouldn't change your mind either.
As every other nuclear power plant located at the coast does and nobody cares. AFAIK the water from Fukushima is “cleaner” than from other sites.
What's more, it's cleaner than when Fukushima was operational!
The total annual amount of tritium to be discharged will be at a level below the operational target value for tritium discharge of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS before the accident
Tritium already naturally occurs in seawater, so I'm not seeing a problem with this.
I don't understand why this would be an argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
@argv_minus_one Japan So Porite, So Crean!
Strangely hostile comments on this post
Probably a reaction to the enormous over-reaction that people have been having about nuclear power for decades. People hear the word "radioactive" and freak out like it's some kind of evil spirit. It gets quite frustrating and tiring.
Fukushima in particular seems to be a touchstone for nuclear paranoia. 18,000 people died in that tsunami and zero of them were caused by the reactor meltdown, but there was a parade of news articles about how the Pacific Ocean was going to become some sort of septic dead zone and the entire coast would have to be evacuated. I recall one breathless prediction of the literal end of humanity. I really want to never hear of it again unless something actually significant happens.
One reactor melts down and they think it's the end of humanity? Even when you do absolutely everything wrong, as the Soviets did with Chernobyl, it still isn't the end of humanity. It doesn't even result in a dead zone; the Chernobyl disaster killed numerous wild animals, but those that can survive there are thriving now that the humans are gone.
I absolutely agree that there was a massive overreaction from it.
That said, there was also a ton of face-saving on Japan's side as well that manifested in a lot of misinformation coming from them. Essentially, there was a distinct lack of transparency about the scope of the problem, so neighboring countries were justifiably unhappy with how Japan handled things.