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"Tokyo Electric Power also knew that radioactivity was leaking at a rate of 400 tons a day into the North Pacific, according to the lawsuit and Japanese officia
by joshvm 13y ago
"Tokyo Electric Power also knew that radioactivity was leaking at a rate of 400 tons a day into the North Pacific, according to the lawsuit and Japanese officials."
I'm sorry, what? What does that even mean? 400 tons of.. Uranium? Water? Pure radioactive essence?
This article is shocking on many levels, but the lack of journalistic standards is appalling.
- glenra 13y ago400 tons of slightly radioactive coolant water, I believe. Or of groundwater that had been mixed with the slightly radioactive coolant water. Journalists don't seem to realize the more water there is, the less harmful it is per unit volume, or that the sea rapidly dilutes it further into harmlessness. There's a little more detail on the claim here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/fukushima-radioactive-water-leak_n_3784399.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/fukushima-radioacti...
- nobody_nowhere 13y agoWe're talking about the NY Post! It would be more surprising if it exhibited any standards at all.
- jrockway 13y agoThey have standards. They pick a Tumblr at random and say, "I bet we can have higher journalistic standards than that guy." And 50% of the time, they're right!