Just put it in fancy bottles and people all over the world will buy it
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True story 😂 people buy weird stuff from gewenneth paltrow, surely she could marketing this to a succes!
GLOWATER by GOOP. Or maybe H2GLO.
Combo it with uranium glass bottles
Just like that, it went from "Haha, what kind of idiot would buy that" to "OMG, I want a collectible 6-pack."
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, putting into motion a plan that has drawn strong criticism from China.
The plan, approved two years ago by the Japanese government as crucial to decommissioning the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) (9501.T), has also faced criticism from local fishing groups, who fear reputational damage and a threat to their livelihood.
"I promise that we will take on the entire responsibility of ensuring the fishing industry can continue to make their living, even if that will take decades," Kishida said on Monday.
Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in July that Japan had shown selfishness and arrogance, and had not fully consulted the international community about the water release.
South Korean activists have also protested the plan, although Seoul has concluded from its own study that the water release meets international standards and said it respects the IAEA's assessment.
The water was used to cool the fuel rods of Fukushima Daiichi after it melted down in an accident caused by a huge tsunami in 2011 that battered Japan's eastern coast.
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On one hand, I'm sure they've thought this through and calculated the radiation levels to be manageable.
On the other hand, pretty much every decision regarding Fukushima has ended up resulting in a disastrous worst-case scenario.
Can someone with knowledge chime in to tell how bad that is? I don't trust this article or China for that matter.
Very very small amounts of radiation is not bad. Your body is exposed to this every day.
Japans plan is to dilute the "water" so much that it should be at safe levels while it decays. They're also not going to release all of it at once, which might not be clear to some readers.
I believe their plan is widely recognized to be safe, but obviously there is a lot of fear around nuclear and radiation.
I believe the worry is that this amount has never Been released before, and that while we might consider it safe, there is a chance it accumulates somewhere to harmful levels.
And obvious consumers of fish are already reacting. Would you buy "safe" fish from Chernobyl if you could just as easily buy the same fish from South Korea?
You don’t trust Reuters? Reuters is about as trustworthy and unbiased as you can get. They’re like the gold standard for non-editorialized journalism.
I've always heard it as Reuters is what the markets use to make their "bets" so has to be true enough to inform them.
The IAEA approved the release, so it’s unlikely to be catastrophic. I can’t imagine radioactive tritium is great for fish, but what do I know.
It'll dilute so quickly and thoroughly into the ocean that it might as well not be there. This is a classic case of the public panicking over the word "nuclear."
Nor is pissing in an Olympic pool, but at some point you’re at homeopathic levels and while it “sounds wrong” is actually totally fine.
Here's the IAEA report: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdf
The discharge limit for tritium is pre-defined in the Government Policy for discharges of ALPS treated water as 22 TBq per year, which is equivalent to the pre-accident discharge limits at FDNPS.
I'm also curious about how much discharge nuclear generators normally produce. If they discharge a certain amount as part of normal operation then it seems to me to also become a function of how many nuclear generators are being operated globally.
The Hongyanhe reactor annually releases 4x as many becquerels of tritium. The Fukushima metldown released 5,000x as much. So this is obviously a non-issue being drummed up due to politics. 🙄
I don’t trust this article or China for that matter.
Then I guess it's a good thing that this is Japan we are talking about.
I'm fairly confident they were referring to the criticism from China FTA, but you'd need to read past the headline for that context so...
Yes that was it. Chinas comments have been over the top for a bunch of issues in the past, there's no reason to just presume their stance has merit.
Especially since they are starting fires again rn regarding Taiwan and Japan in different context.
Over the last three decades and especially the last decade (the Fukushima accident) TEPCO has a history of missteps, reprehensible neglect, denial, and most of all creative work with their own documents or even more creative backdating of already existing documents to make everything look okay on paper so they can continue to get funding from the government here (sorry, actually just a bunch of LDP gerontocrats and 日本会議 members) to cover their fuckups. They have shown nothing but a series of lies and utter incompetence over the past decade. Anything they say should be taken with a very large grain of salt. They seem to want to forget that even for days and perhaps weeks afterwards they claimed that nothing actually happened and that it was a fraction compared to XYZ. And actually there was no problem, they claimed there was no problem even when people started moving. And then they pretended that they never said there was no problem and were transparent. But people here are not used to question or check whatever they are being told
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"Treated" radioactive water... soooo many movies.
Or is this where we give a boost to the next dominant species - octopus / dolphin sapients.
Do you want Godzilla? Because that is how you get Godzilla.
Yes. Yes I do.
If 400 PBq of nuclear testing and 37,000 PBq of naturally occuring uranium in the ocean didn't create Godzilla, then this obviously won't.