World News

32009 readers

433 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

jackmarxist@lemmy.ml

zephyreks@lemmy.ml

OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml

137

Japan tells citizens in China to lie low after Fukushima release (www.japantimes.co.jp)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Japan has told its citizens living in China to keep a low profile, including talking quietly in public, after Beijing blasted Tokyo for releasing treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except the waste water doesn't actually have high levels of either of those, as it's been diluted well below the safe minimums before release

Theres no actual science to back up the fears about their handling of this - just your standard "nuclear = bad and scary"

Wait till you guys find out about bananas

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507

Different tanks have different concentrations.

Just because the average is safe doesn't mean each discharge is.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have a non-pay walled article?

Because nothing in what I can read of that article discounts what I said.

Specifically a non-pay walled article that backs up your assertions that some discharges are above safe levels

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Figures on the last page.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah well without a non-pay walled source, I can't verify that