Posted on 04/12/2021 11:53:00 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to release treated radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, having assessed there will be no negative impact on human health or the environment despite concerns from local fishermen and neighbouring countries.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met members of his Cabinet including industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama to formalise the decision, which comes a decade after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple meltdown in March 2011.
The decision came despite China saying it had “deep concerns” over the plan. On Monday China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Beijing had through diplomatic channels asked the Japanese government to “adopt a responsible attitude”.
Zhao had previously said he hoped Japan would conduct a “thorough assessment” of the treatment process for the tritium-contaminated waste water, and “disclose relevant information in a voluntary, timely, strict, accurate, open and transparent manner, and make prudent decisions after full consultation with neighbouring countries”.
South Korea had also raised concerns about the plan, as had Japanese fishermen who fear consumers will shun Japanese seafood over safety concerns. Yet these concerns appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
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Will make it easier to fish at night.
Move over Glow-worms. It’s time for already cooked “Glow-Fish”. You want soy sauce with that?
Trust the science?
The sorrution to porrution is dirrution
Japan is right. Those chemical elements will decay out much faster in digestion of ocean organisms, and the next generations will be fine. Those elements left over at this point in time also do far less damage, because they decay much more slowly when not processed through fish, etc.
We’ve neglected proper studies and allowed creative stories from the left to mislead us for too long (examples, the hysterical propaganda in “The Day After,” the “half life” of this or that).
Why not pump it beneath an impermeable clay layer underground—like US septic waste already is?
I had an exchange several years ago here on FR. My opponent insisted that seawater would not generate a radioactive steam ploom if one or two of our carriers were sunk by chinese missiles.
Seems like this japanese travesty addresses this topic.
From my home page...
6) China is building a blue-water navy including submarines. They might be able to achieve a standoff in the surrounding ocean, limiting the ability to resupply american troups while the chinese troups will pillage Taiwan. Once America loses 2 nuclear powered aircraft carriers (with the resulting radioactive plumes), the calculation is that the U.S. will lose stomach for more fighting.
The US has always been ‘stretched’ in the Pacific area and continues to be so. Proximity is China’s one huge advantage here. That said, the real counter to China would be Japan building its own nuclear weapons capabilities and making China well aware of such.
[The sorrution to porrution is dirrution]
Do you know Donna Chang? It used to be “Changstein” but she changed it.
Oh wait. Wrong country. Never mind. She’s from New Jersey.
How about some oranges?
“having assessed there will be no negative impact on human health or the environment”?
LIARS.
Isn’t plutonium 235 fun boys and girls?
GE, we bring good thins to death!
First thought that hit my mind.
Gojira
time to go dig out those old Godzilla movies
California will soon be glowing!!
Part of japans new green deal, release radioactivity, locals need not rely on electricity for lighting they are the lights by eating the fish. Godzirra will make a come back
Finally. That’s the best place for it. They did this a bunch of times already just after the meltdown, and this is not a big deal.
You don’t have a clue about radioactive decay rates.
this is not a problem because of the volume of water in the worlds oceans, not because of your cockamamie theory.
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