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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.

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

When has China dumped radioactive waste with high levels of Strontium-90 and Carbon-14 into the ocean?

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 12 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 3 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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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