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As totally expected.
I'm no scientist, but even I know the basics of how it works. And then there's the actual scientists...
I talk about it here briefly
It is safe, but 'radio active water release' sells headlines
Wat
I'm just as confused as you are. That's not what I wrote.
Frick. I'm a moron. I am so sorry, I replied to the wrong comment.
Haha all good
Dude read too much Chinese propaganda
Super safe. We should all do it. Sure even the fish'd appreciate it, you absolutely dumbfuck.
How can you possibly think it is safe?
"Only this, only that, only a bit, only so many rads". They're still dumping their fucking issue into everyone's ocean. Fuck off with your Japanese cocksucking behavior. They're terrorists as far as I'm concerned.
Edit: "But there's already radiation in the ocean". "The sun makes radiation, too!" "You're a dumbass because China makes more radiation than Japan does!" Are you all bots? Ffs. So dumb and annoying. You're not right.
Do you have any evidence to go against the tests in the article or are you just rambling?
Read my update. Evidence? Yes, it is radioactive waste they don't want anywhere on their own soil. That should tell you enough.
....so you don't have evidence.
Are you illiterate?
They actually looked into other methods, such as evaporation and it's simply not as safe as this method.
Safe? Safe for whom?? Bury it in a mountain or something, but it is obvious they don't want it on their soil!
Assholes, ffs.
Uh huh. You are aware that pretty much everything has radioactivity in it? And that there are serious regulations on the limits of those due to it generally being a bad thing. Those regulations determining safe limits for it. As in, it is safe. As in, no harm is done. When you stay within those limits, you're fine. Just like with every single thing regarding chemicals and waste, and pretty much anything. That is why the regulations exist in the first place.
Why defend them? If it was safe, they'd just dump it somewhere on their own land, right? It totally isn't safe.
Go watch Chernobyl, because reading and critical thinking aren't your strong suits.
So you are basing "it's not safe" on the fact that they are doing the thing that has been deemed safe?
I better go watch that TV show asap.
Well it’s been filtered for all radioactive material except tritium and is well below the level of concentration the UN allows for drinking water. They are not detecting any radiation currently and and releasing the water very slowly over 30 years. Did you just not read the article or what?
You do realize that the ocean has been full of radioactive material for billions of years, right? Uranium oxide is water-soluble. You can literally pull uranium out of ocean water if you know the right chemistry.
Hell, you're currently being exposed to ionizing radiation right this second. So am I, so is every one. Go outside, pick up a handful of dirt and there will be trace amounts of uranium, and likely some thorium. Have a radon detector in your basement? That's radioactive, and comes from the natural decay of uranium.
Do you drink well water? Water-soluble oxides of uranium. Which is why damp basements accumulate radon.
The detected levels of radiation in this discharge water are actually lower than standard background radiation from all the uranium that's literally everywhere.
Then why dont I have superpowers yet
Little doses of radiation don't lead to superpowers, you need a really big dose. And by superpowers I mean cancer.
All water gives off some levels of radiation. Every water drop you've ever drank has.
The levels are very low.
This is no exception.
Please stop posting anti-nuclear nonsense.
I'm not anti-nuclear; I'm anti pollution. Especially when it could have been avoided by building a better facility.
Did it occur to you that most things in nature have radioactive isotopes and that for nuclear reactors we look for the most radioactive bunch, refine them to remove the least radioactive bits and then use them in reactors?
If you reverse that process (well, not really a reversal as you now have different atoms) and re-dillute stuff in nature in a sensible way, you're not going to get anything that is substantially above ambient levels. The oceans are tremendously big and the waste water is already quite treated. One is not going to notice a change in relative terms anywhere on earth unless high-precision equipment is used.
This is not a very-scientifically-accurate comment, but if it was you would not understand so lets keep it like this.
I don't say this lightly: you are an insufferable moron.
Ah, because I hate that people are dumping trash in the ocean. Got it.
Dumb cunt.
Lmfao.
There is naturally radioactive elements dissolved in water and it doesn't really hurt us. We're bathed in radioactivity all day every day and it doesn't really hurt us. Releasing this water will effectively change nothing. There's a lot of water in the ocean and it's already naturally dissolved radioactive elements, like uranium and other things. How is a tiny bit more going to cause harm?
Literally, go jump in a nuclear reactor's storage pool. You don't know what you're talking about, but you'll learn real quick.
Literally, you'd be perfectly fine. probably less radioactive slightly under the water than background above water.
Goddamn y'all are so dumb. Let's all dump our radioactive waste in the ocean then, if it is so safe. America has literal tons of it.
Goddamn y'all are so dumb. Let's all dump our radioactive waste in the ocean then, if it is so safe. America has literal tons of it.
It's not just dumping radioactive waste into the ocean. It's dumping water that has been cleaned and has very little contaminants into the water. Dumping human waste into the water isn't good either, but taking precautions it can be done safety without much risk.
Lol. K.