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Government OKs discharge of Fukushima nuclear plant water into sea
- yakshaving_jgt 6y agoWhat's the story here? Is discharging this water safe or not? > A spokesman for the South Korean Foreign Ministry said releasing the tritiated water would "directly and indirectly affect the safety of the people and the neighboring environment." How exactly? Without clarifying the science, this article is tantamount to ecological scaremongering.
- wccrawford 6y agoNon-scaremongering articles don't get clicks and shares, so you'll rarely see them unless you follow the newsfeeds directly. If you use an aggregator, like HN, you will very rarely see them. Other comments here have already detailed how safe it is, both in this post and the previous one.
- fuoqi 6y agoIt's baffling how this issue gets overblown, both in Japan and on the international stage. IIUC they will discharge water which got filtered from all radioactive isotopes except tritium. If they dump everything at once, IIRC it was calculated that in one year an average Japanese citizen will get an additional dose equal to 0.8 µSv, which is approximately equal to how much you regularly get from natural sources in just 3 hours. The number will be even lower for neighboring countries and they plan to discharge water very gradually during the next 30 years. I guess it's a big problem with the modern politics, politicians get more points by over-blowing issues and loudly protesting against them, than by carefully explaining to population essence of those issue and trade-offs of various solutions.
- saagarjha 6y agoDiscussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26773398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26773398