Tritium is a red herring strontium and carbon-14 are in this shit

This filtration method is not verified by the same testing as other projects releasing diluted tritium water. Those comparisons are inaccurate as this is a contamination cleanup site, not a nuclear power plant. Water was directly in contact with the molten core it’s all nasty now 😓

  • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Can you please provide some source for the strontium and carbon-14? I want to do more reading about this. Besides the IAEA report, most testaments come from physicists, who are not marine biologist or ecologists.

    I’m of the opinion that we shouldn’t generally dump stuff into the ocean, it is not ours to touch, but instead home to a different world of vastly many species we don’t know of. I think they are monitoring marine species over time, but I feel like this whole thing is misguided anthropocentrism and if in 2 or 3 decades, there is deviation to marine ecosystems, this whole ordeal was not worth it.

    • MinekPo1 [it/she]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Greenpeace Japan references (reference 2):

      The opposition to the discharges includes the U.S. National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML) consisting of 100 leading marine science institutions in the United States stated “The proposed release of this contaminated water is a transboundary and transgenerational issue of concern for the health of marine ecosystems and those whose lives and livelihoods depend on them.” – December 2022

      This is accompanied with a link to the position paper

      Further quote:

      NAML members are unified in our concern about use of the oceans as a dumping ground for radioactively contaminated water and other pollutants because such actions can negatively affect the long-term health and sustainability of our planet.

      We urge the Government of Japan to stop pursuing their planned and precedent-setting release of the radioactively contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean and to work with the broader scientific community to pursue other approaches that protect ocean life; human health; and those communities who depend on ecologically, economically, and culturally valuable marine resources.

    • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      IAEA is also a complete Western tool like almost all other international organizations

      Again really weird how so many people chose to trust them here

      • Pointman [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just let them revert to their old selves. Better they show their hand on this issue rather than a more directly damaging one