Nothingburger. “Slightly radioactive” - literally half the planet is “slightly radioactive”. We pump more radiation into the atmosphere by burning coal than we ever have by splitting uranium atoms.
They had an expert on the radio explaining why it’s not an issue - the interviewer asked if he’d drink the water and he said yes, but he might be the wrong person to ask, as he’s swum in the cooling tanks at Chernobyl.
The Chinese are getting their knickers in twist about it but their nuclear reactors release far more radioactive water into the Pacific and that’s all within safe limits. Most of the fuss seems to be political or just arising from ignorance (or both).
It may be fine but the issue as I understand it is Japan isn’t being totally transparent about their testing or allowing outside inspection.
I haven’t heard anything about that - the IAEA is happy, as are South Korea and all the experts I’ve heard speak on the matter. Japan’s environment ministry has also been sampling sea water after the release and will give the results on Sunday. Everything seems.to be on working to keep the tritium at levels significantly lower levels than the WHO safe levels (and well below the levels in waste water from other nuclear power plants, including China).
