You think you know, but you don't
This water has been pumped from the ocean right into a nuclear disaster, then pumped again and stored
Risk zero doesn't exist, only certitude is that tepco and the jap gov have lied to the public from day1
Therefore, in absence of trust and guarantees and reliable information, the reasonable approach for the general customer is to go for a different offer, again better safe than sorry
What's stupid however, is to take a medical risk over a small economy on the final price
>In 2018, the plant operator, TEPCO, apologized after admitting it lied about the cleanup efforts and that its filtration systems had not removed all dangerous material from the water - and the site was running out of room for storage tanks. Among the ludicrous proposals concocted to contain the radioactive water was an idea straight out of Game of Thrones - an underground ice wall. It did not work.
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>Japan's neighbor, South Korea, has for much of the past decade retained a ban on imports of seafood from Japan’s Fukushima region imposed after the nuclear disaster and summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last year to explain how the Fukushima water would be dealt with. They will soon have a very unsatisfactory answer.
This water has been pumped from the ocean right into a nuclear disaster, then pumped again and stored
Find out what reverse osmosis is. That's how they strip contaminated water from its contaminants. Technically, the water they're storing should be much like distilled water, with some weakly radioactive tritium being the only thing that can't be separated. This water is contaminated with a small amount of heavy water, which you can drink without getting sick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Toxicity_in_humans
Therefore, in absence of trust and guarantees and reliable information, the reasonable approach for the general customer is to go for a different offer, again better safe than sorry
Yeah. That's what I always think about governments. But there are better reasons for thinking that than some idiotic radiation-hysteria.
Well if it's "much like distilled water" then it's not radioactive water, it's safe right? You can dump it on crops, let it evaporate at the sun, even sell it for consumption...
Why not? Because it's totally NOT much like distilled water, duh
Goddamnit, I hate it, when people can't differentiate between reality and some bullshit and extremely anti-nuclear legislation. In reality, you can in all likelyhood drink this water without noticing any difference. If, however, some stupid law declares water to be toxic waste, it becomes toxic waste. People who think in legalese rather than in rational terms should be shot without trial.
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