Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors.

Japan started releasing water from the wrecked Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, sparking protests within Japan and neighbouring countries, in particular China, which banned aquatic product imports from Japan.

Japan and scientific organisations say the water is safe after being filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.

  • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Read my update. Evidence? Yes, it is radioactive waste they don’t want anywhere on their own soil. That should tell you enough.

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      1 year ago

      They actually looked into other methods, such as evaporation and it’s simply not as safe as this method.

    • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      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.