I'd like to mention, that the dangers of everything nuclear is highly exaggerated, and are mostly theoretical. The effect of low doses of radiation is so small, that it can't be proven or disproven, because the random noise you'll get in every kind of study is much bigger than the effect you want to prove. As the article states, pouring some tritium into the sea is going to have an SOCIAL impact. SOCIAL. Not environmental, and not medicinal.
AFAIK the media is more dishonest, when it comes to everything nuclear, than when it's about climate change. It's quite common for those fuckers to get hysterical because of slightly elevated radiation, which is normal by all means. Your body radiates because it's composed of some radioactive isotopes. The walls or your house are also radiating, especially, when it's newly built. There's a lot of media coverage meant to make people hysterical because of "radiation leaks", which literally give you 10K times less radiation than your own body.
PS. Even shortly after Fukushima went up, you'd get a higher dose of radiation while flying in an airplane, than while standing maybe 1 kilometer away from the reactor. The evacuation has cost more lifes than the radiation THEORETICALLY would have, and, as I said, the effects of low doses of radiation are theoretical. Getting a few X-Ray from your doctor exposes you to higher total doses of radiation than living your whole life right besides a nuclear reactor.
You know, if I put just one drop of piss in your coffee and let you know it's enough for you to refuse to drink any of it
So imagine what "1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting" is going to do to the fishing sector
Just because it's "social" doesn't mean it's trivial, to the contrary
You know, if I put just one drop of piss in your coffee and let you know it's enough for you to refuse to drink any of it
Not necessary. My coffee already contains the fecal matters of those little critters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asellus_aquaticus
As does the coffee of most people. And yet nobody cares, because most people would prefer drinking coffee with piss to drinking no coffee at all. the same should be true with nuclear power plants - They give you electricity while they THEORETICALLY could increase your risk of getting cancer by 0.00001%. That's a good deal.
So imagine what "1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting" is going to do to the fishing sector
Nothing, because the oceans are huge, and the radioactive isotopes are going to dissolve to such a degree, that they'll be undetectable with a geiger-counter, let alone do any damage. There already are natural radioactive isotopes all around us, and adding a tiny amount of artificial ones doesn't matter. And quite a lot of the panic-driven reporting with regards to radioactive leaks doesn't make it clear, that for example a million-cold increase of radioactive cesium doesn't mean shit, because radioactive cesium doesn't occur naturally, so you're measuring zero times a million, when creating such panics.
As a matter of fact, if you'd go out into nature with a geiger-counter, and hold it near some rocks, you'd find orders of magnitude more radioactivity than what the poor little fishies are going to get. And going our into nature decreases the radiation you get, because the walls around you also are radioactive. You're personally doing much more harm to the fishies by washing clothing made from polyester, like fleece jackets. In case you ever wondered, how those tiny plastic fragments come into the little fishies (and your lungs).
As I said, the reporting with regards to everything radioactive is the most dishonest reporting out there. It's much worse than with political correctness, when it comes to everything nuclear.
Just because it's "social" doesn't mean it's trivial, to the contrary
When something trivial is socially important, I'd call this "hysteria", and hysteria is for women.
Yeah sure, I'm going to put a drop of my piss in your coffee and you're going to drink it
Right
Either you're retarded or you believe I'm stupid enough to believe you
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