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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com)

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[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Hongyanhe reactor annually releases 4x as many becquerels of tritium. The Fukushima metldown released 5,000x as much. So this is obviously a non-issue being drummed up due to politics. 🙄