Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
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Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#2Sounds like an origin story for Godzilla
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#3The actual data:
> That water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organisation drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre, according to Tepco.
Google tells me regular seawater is 14 Bq/l.
Anyone with physics knowledge want to do the journalist's actual job and chime in? 10x worse than average sounds bad but 50x better than safe sounds good. What's the actual effect here? Is the tritium itself the problem (vs. I'm assuming, usually potassium)?
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#4The actual data: > That water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organisation drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre, according to Tepco. Google tells me regular seawater is 14 Bq/l. Anyone with physics knowledge want to do the journalist's actual job and chime in? 10x worse than average sounds bad but 50x better than safe sounds good. What's the actual effect…
It's a mixed bag.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1029/ML102990104.pdf
Who is 10000, but this varies with EU having a 100 bq/l limit, US a 740 limit, Canada 7000/l
So going by WHO recommendation it's fine, but 2x what the limit in Europe is.
Looks like normal levels are 5-15 /l depending where it's measured.
So: this is probably 10x what you'd encounter naturally but allegedly way under the limit depending on who is making the recommendations (with EU somewhat of an outlier)
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#5The actual data: > That water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organisation drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre, according to Tepco. Google tells me regular seawater is 14 Bq/l. Anyone with physics knowledge want to do the journalist's actual job and chime in? 10x worse than average sounds bad but 50x better than safe sounds good. What's the actual effect…
It's a mixed bag. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1029/ML102990104.pdf Who is 10000, but this varies with EU having a 100 bq/l limit, US a 740 limit, Canada 7000/l So going by WHO recommendation it's fine, but 2x what the limit in Europe is. Looks like normal levels are 5-15 /l depending where it's measured. So: this is probably 10x what you'd encounter naturally but allegedly way under the limit depending on who is makin…
But the ocean is vast. So wouldn't this mix in and ultimately be an imperceptible change in the average?
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#6Goodbye seafood. Hello fish farming?
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#7Looks like I'll have to ban Japanese products (Tea/Fish) and potentially anything from the pacific..
Japanese government is irresponsible
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a mixed bag. https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1029/ML102990104.pdf Who is 10000, but this varies with EU having a 100 bq/l limit, US a 740 limit, Canada 7000/l So going by WHO recommendation it's fine, but 2x what the limit in Europe is. Looks like normal levels are 5-15 /l depending where it's measured. So: this is probably 10x what you'd encounter naturally but allegedly way under the limit depending on who is makin…
But the ocean is vast. So wouldn't this mix in and ultimately be an imperceptible change in the average?
Maybe globally and eventually, but at first the nearby nations could possibly have elevated levels in their surrounding waters for the time being.
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#9Looks like I'll have to ban Japanese products (Tea/Fish) and potentially anything from the pacific.. Japanese government is irresponsible
Best to ban products from the Atlantic as well. It touches the Pacific.
Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean
#10“190 becquerels per liter”
Oh gee oh wow!
1 millicurie (mCi) = 37 megabecquerels (MBq)
1 PET/CT scan is between 4-20 mCi.
So I guess if you drink, snort, bathe and just enematize yourselves with 48,684 liters of this poisonous horrible water it will be the same as getting a single PET CT.
The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.
These people have to breathe canned air Space Balls style but they have time to cry and complain about 190 becquerels that are going to be diluted to homeopathic concentration rapidly.
Why don’t they find time to worry about radon gas? We all are probably breathing in enough of that shit to actually give us lung cancer but it doesn’t bother most.