> 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.