Just in case that faggot OP wants to show up again. It is good that Japan will release water from Fukushima Have you noticed that the Fukushima water theme returns to the headlines every few months? Various newspapers publish clickbait articles that "Japan will spill contaminated radioactive water, millions of liters of radioactive waste will end up in the ocean, and life in the Pacific is at risk." Is it really? Is this water contaminated? No. The water was purified by ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System) and tested for various radioactive isotopes such as cesium-137, cesium-134, cobalt-60, antimony-125, ruthenium-106, iodine-129, tritium, technetium-99, carbon-14 and many others. Heavy metals have been filtered out and their concentration does not exceed the standards. Each water tank has been thoroughly tested and water will be released only from those tanks that have passed all the tests. https://www4.tepco.co.jp/en/sp/decommission/progress/watertreatment/images/tankarea_en.pdf What about tritium? Water contains some tritium, which is an isotope of hydrogen. It cannot be filtered out. Therefore, the water will be diluted to an activity of 1500 Bq/l, which is 40 times less than the Japanese safety standards and 7 times less than the drinking water guidelines of the World Health Organization. Tritium radiation is very weak. Its decay energy is 0.019 MeV. For comparison, the decay energy of naturally occurring radioactive gas radon-222 is 5.59 MeV, and the fission energy of the uranium-235 nucleus is as much as 200 MeV. It is an interesting fact that tritium is a renewable isotope. Every day, tritium atoms are formed in the upper atmosphere. This has been happening for millions of years as a result of the action of a huge fusion reactor called the sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Japan-to-discharge-treated-Fukushima-Daiichi-water Is tritium dangerous? Tritium is so safe that you can buy it on eBay. If you do not believe it, type "tritium" in the search engine, it will show various luminous key rings, watches with luminous digits, and even a tritium-powered flashlight. These items can be purchased without any permissions. If tritium was as dangerous as anti-atomic fear spreaders claim, we should already have a nuclear armageddon, and the owners of tritium key rings should be dying of radiation sickness. However, this doesn’t happen. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tritium How much tritium is in the water from Fukushima? There are 16g (0.5 oz) of tritium in 1,180,000 m³ (312,000,000 US gallons) of water - only sixteen grams of tritium per billion liters of water! https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissioning/pdf/20191227_2.pdf (page 3) What about carbon-14? News about “deadly” carbon-14 began to appear in the newspapers after Greenpeace published its report on the allegedly dangerous content of this isotope in Fukushima water that “could damage human DNA”. However, the report lacks details. It doesn't even say how much of that carbon-14 is there! In response to Greenpeace's allegations, TEPCO spokesman Ryounosuke Takanori reports that there are between 2 and 220 Bq/l in the water. Takanori has calculated that if someone drank 2 liters of Fukushima water all year round, one would take the dose of max 110 uSv. For comparison, a person in Europe takes a dose of about 0.10-0.15 uSv every hour, and an average of 2,500 uSv per year - this dose comes from natural sources. The Greenpeace publication appears to be a classic example of the anti-nuclear rhetoric of fear, written to influence the emotions of people without specialist knowledge of radiation and to create media sensation. https://storage.googleapis.com/planet4-japan-stateless/2020/10/5768c541-the-reality-of-the-fukushima-radioactive-water-crisis_en_summary.pdf https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/24/asia/japan-fukushima-waste-ocean-intl-scli/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation Has anyone already drunk Fukushima water? Yes. During a press conference in 2011, Yasuhiro Sonoda drank Fukushima's water in front of photojournalists. Yasuhiro Sonoda is still alive and well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPnkWiyBH0 Is the water in the ocean radioactive? Yes. Various elements, including radioactive ones, are diluted in ordinary water. In seawater, quite naturally, there are 4 billion tons of uranium. Remember this when you bathe in the sea! Various methods of extracting uranium from water are currently being tested, and in the future such a method may become an alternative to extracting uranium from the ground. It should also be remembered that radioactive radon-222 is dissolved in water. Water from a well, especially in mountainous regions, may contain such an amount of radon that it is noticeable with an amateur dosimeter. Despite this, no one claims that seawater or well water is radioactive waste. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-seawater-extraction-makes-nuclear-power-completely-renewable/?sh=13272590159a https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149197017300914 Do I eat and drink radioactive isotopes every day? Yes, and it is not a failure or leak, it is completely natural. In addition, some of these isotopes are renewable, and new atoms are constantly being created to complement the self-decaying atoms. The following are examples of the different things that radioactive isotopes contain: coffee - potassium-40 banana - potassium-40 potatoes, chips - potassium-40 all plants - carbon-14 seawater - uranium-235 and uranium-238 air - tritium, carbon-14, radon-222 granite, building materials - thorium-232 welding electrodes - cerium-136/138/140 and thorium-232 smoke detectors - americium-241 What are international organizations saying about this? The International Atomic Energy Agency sees no reason to pour water out into the ocean. Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director: Today's decision by the Government of Japan is a milestone that will help pave the way for continued progress in the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tanks with the water occupy large areas of the site, and water management, including the disposal of the treated water in a safe and transparent manner involving all stakeholders, is of key importance for the sustainability of these decommissioning activities. The Japanese government's decision is in line with practice globally, even though the large amount of water at the Fukushima plant makes it a unique and complex case. The United States also sees no contraindications: Japan appears to have adopted an approach in accordance with globally accepted nuclear safety standards in its decision to release water contaminated at the wrecked Fukushima atomic power station following treatment. The panel of experts assessing the water in 2020 stated: Gallon of this water is as radioactive as a bag of potato chips. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Japan-to-discharge-treated-Fukushima-Daiichi-water https://www.reuters.com/article/us-disaster-fukushima-usa-idUSKBN2C004C https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/02/01/japans-expert-panel-agrees-that-dumping-radioactive-water-into-the-ocean-is-best/?sh=423fb9fd200c Is it good that Japan will pour out this water? Yes. It poses no threat. The demands of anti-nuclear organizations to pick out all radioactive atoms from this water is unrealistic to meet, and above all - pointless. Currently, this water is cleaner than any ordinary river. There is no scientific rationale for keeping this water indefinitely. There is no point in further purifying. Calling this water "contaminated" or "radioactive waste" is manipulation. Pouring it into the ocean is the right solution. The best way to fight the anti-nuclear rhetoric of fear is education.