Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan.
China is “highly concerned about the risk of radioactive contamination brought by… Japan’s food and agricultural products,” the customs bureau said in a statement.
The Japanese government signed off on the plan two years ago and it was given a green light by the U.N. nuclear watchdog last month. The discharge is a key step in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant after it was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011.
There’s 4.5 billion tons of uranium dissolved in the ocean, I’m pretty sure a couple milligrams of trace elements isn’t going to change anything.
Oh, because that’s a great answer to a localized ban.
Guess what? Most of the volume of the ocean isn’t chilling in Japanese territorial waters.
currents exist
even without currents mixing the water, diluting trace elements into the fucking ocean is fine
Not at concentrations noticeably higher than normal ocean water.
Lower*
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If you’re claiming they’re higher, show your data. Your article says trace. Barring figures showing different, trace means nearly undetectable.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507
I don’t see the concentration. Show me a citation with the ppb figure and specific isotopes.