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It'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 radioactiv
by fuoqi 6y ago
It'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.