Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over

http://www.trueactivist.com/fukushima-your-days-of-eating-pacific-ocean-fish-are-over/

by apphrase • 13 years ago

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a_bonobo4• 13 years ago

450 tons of water is a drop compared to the vast amount of water in the pacific, so feel free to keep on eating fish.

As a sidenote: I've recently seen an increase in people submitting overhyped/scaremongering/dodgy as hell posts like OP's, hopefully the mods step in at some point.

daveid• 13 years ago

450 tons of water every day, for somewhere around 2 years? Is that still a drop?

a_bonobo4• 13 years ago

Here's a better source from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/fukushima-fallo...

Quote:

But the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other experts have said the seepage will not affect areas beyond the sea directly off the coast of Fukushima Daiichi. "Even 300 tonnes [a day] — that's still going to be diluted to an almost undetectable level before it would get to any US territory," said the commission's information officer Scott Burnell.

You have to remember that this water isn't pure radioactivity, it's itself already a dilution.

wmeddie• 13 years ago

A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

selfexperiments• 13 years ago

You may accuse others of scaremongering, but I call you apathetic and you're trying to spread apathy to others. Why even bother commenting?

Oh, I accidentally voted you up, and I want that vote back.

a_bonobo4• 13 years ago

Trying to spread apathy? That's a new one. I'm just trying to stop the spread of unreasonable hyperbole on HN which used to be much more skeptical towards links like this. There are enough things to get riled up about (the NSA for starters), no need to add lies like in OP's link to that.

Here's a post to downvote, feel free.

eonil• 13 years ago

Japan is obviously responsible to making their local disaster to world-wide disaster.

rrjanbiah• 13 years ago

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fukushima.asp

Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over

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