Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week.
Kishida and the three ministers had sashimi of flounder, octopus and sea bass, caught off the Fukushima coast after the water release, along with vegetables, fruits and a bowl of rice that were harvested in the prefecture, Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who was at the meeting, told reporters.
The release of the treated wastewater into the ocean, which began Thursday and is expected to continue for decades, has been strongly opposed by fishing groups and by neighboring countries. China immediately banned all imports of Japanese seafood in response. In South Korea, thousands of people joined rallies over the weekend to condemn the discharge.
All seawater and fish sampling data since the release have been way below set safety limits.
The difference is that this actually is safe.
See, the radiation released is actually lower than the background radiation of standard ocean water, because the ocean is full of naturally occurring uranium oxide. It’s water-soluble.
Anyway, the tritium in the discharge water is diluted so much that it will be a non-issue. This just gets headlines because people are kind of stupid when it comes to the scary radiation word, as if you weren’t bathing in ionizing radiation right this very second from all the natural sources around you.
You have gamma from cosmic rays, alpha and beta emitters in the soil, and a dozen other sources of radiation around you.
You are radioactive, through Carbon-14 that you get from your diet and everything else. Measuring that radioactivity is how carbon dating works.
Thank you, genuinely.
For a good time pick up a geiger counter and start measuring random stuff around where you live 😅
I hope they don’t have granite countertops.
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If gets especially bad at German classical music concerts.
Numbers can be fun!
Now you’re getting it my friend, cheers 😁🍻
To add on what you’re saying, the most dangerous radiation we’re exposed to in our day to day life is UV from the sun. I’ve never managed to get people to understand that though.
Smokers are exposed to a lot of radiation, far more than people who actually work at nuclear plants.
https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-tobacco
It’s estimated that 90% of tobacco related cancer is actually radiation linked.