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Just as Japan is about to dump a million ton (or more?) of radioactive water (from Fukushima) into the ocean.
by sweetlucipher 6y ago
Just as Japan is about to dump a million ton (or more?) of radioactive water (from Fukushima) into the ocean.
- xwdv 6y agoRadioactivity isn’t really a big deal for animals and non-sentients. It mostly prevents humans from entering certain areas, which in this case maybe it’s good that humans will avoid them so animals could thrive there.
- vbezhenar 6y agoWhat about caught radioactive fish that humans will eat?
- NullPrefix 6y agoOnce again, a problem for humans which means animals eventually could thrive
- ironmagma 6y agoWe aren't the only animals that eat fish.
- xwdv 6y agoThe animals don’t care about radiation. They will die of something else long before they die of radiation, some might even mutate in beneficial ways.
- ironmagma 6y agoThat seems like a rather uneducated guess. Some species of shark for example live a very long time (bordering on immortal), and orcas live as long as many humans.
- xwdv 6y agoSo you’re saying animals care.
- ironmagma 6y agoWhat animals think is unknowable. It’s just as valid to say they care as to say they don’t care. We can say that they do try to stay alive as long as possible. But what does it matter what their thoughts are anyway? Physics cares about radiation, biology cares. There is no way arbitrary human-introduced tissue damage from radiation is going to be good for any creature on earth. This is wrong, no buts about it.
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- xwdv 6y agoIt’s not okay to just kill and eat fish.
- yostrovs 6y agoYou tell that to the fish.
- jbay808 6y agoI'd be more worried about the mercury that's already there
- mrlala 6y agoA million tons doesn't even sound like that much? 1 million metric tons = 1 million cubic meters. That's only a 100m cube of water..
- kvgr 6y agoIt is gonna dillute so much it will not be a problem at all...
- guscost 6y ago“Radioactive water” in this context means “normal water with trace amounts of tritium, which emits radiation that is less harmful than sunlight”.