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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

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Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you read how high the WHO limit is for drinking water? Just using that as a baseline, this doesn't seem all that irresponsible.

You'd be surprised what the WHO allows McDonald's to put in their food and in the whole supply chain Do you own research of the risks, I listen to scientists, not politicians

> You’d be surprised what the WHO allows McDonald’s to put in their food and in the whole supply chain

Literally anything, but only because while there are many gorganizations in the world that regulate food, food service, and agricultural suppy chains, WHO isn’t one of them, being an intergovernmental coordination and information sharing entity, not a regulatory agency.

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#22

“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 Pacif…

Apparently even 1 banana smoothie will deliver an order of magnitude more radiation than drinking 1l of that water. https://ionactive.co.uk/resource-hub/blog/a-banana-smoothie-...

Why release it and not keep it for domestic use then?

> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

Not just Chinese, South Koreans too https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-mount-so...

You should drink that water if you complain about them being upset

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently even 1 banana smoothie will deliver an order of magnitude more radiation than drinking 1l of that water. https://ionactive.co.uk/resource-hub/blog/a-banana-smoothie-...

Why release it and not keep it for domestic use then? > The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific. Not just Chinese, South Koreans too https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-mount-so... You should drink that water if you complain about them being upset

That’s fine, I’ll drink it. You going to get your hands on some and send it to me? You can post it on your telegram/signal/X accounts

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently even 1 banana smoothie will deliver an order of magnitude more radiation than drinking 1l of that water. https://ionactive.co.uk/resource-hub/blog/a-banana-smoothie-...

Why release it and not keep it for domestic use then? > The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific. Not just Chinese, South Koreans too https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-mount-so... You should drink that water if you complain about them being upset

This isn’t a gotcha. I’ll absolutely drink it.

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#25

“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 Pacif…

>The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd.

China needs to cool it with the xenophobia.

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#28

“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 Pacif…

> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

There are also multiple Chinese/Korean NPPs that have each released in one year multiple times the amount of radiation contained in the Fukushima annual release plan (22 trillion Bq). This isn’t because of any incident they had, these are just normal operations for these plants. These moves have very little to do with science and are just East Asian political posturing as usual.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushim...

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-...

https://japan-forward.com/china-and-south-korea-too-release-...

Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#29

“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 Pacif…

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Re: Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean

#30

Looks like I'll have to ban Japanese products (Tea/Fish) and potentially anything from the pacific.. Japanese government is irresponsible

I'd recommend reading some of the other comments on here wrt how radioactive the water actually is. It seems to be well within safe levels for all but the most stringent agencies as-is, and they're going to put it in the ocean, where it will dilute to unnoticeable levels. This is a nothingburger story, plain and simple.
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