https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/fury-as-japan…
The USA has been kept silent on Japans behaviour!
Yet the media is still only focus on the Chinese Balloon Saga.
What a environmental catastrophe on what Japan is about to do!!!!!!
Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tonnes of Contaminated Water in The Pacific
Aerith-Waifu on 23/02/2023 - 04:51
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Yeah it'll be treated and released over decades, as per the article.
What more can be done?Typical news.com.au dramatic headline, dramatic hyperbole, and scare mongering.
Title and introduction make bold accusations that attempt to fit their headline and introduction then contradicts the claims deeper in the article explaining how it's all nothing anyway..
Such a cruddy
~'news' organisation~ troped up reddit copy pasta…
Sounds like a non event?
Hey! Don't let the facts ruin a good story. Media outlets told us that we should all be outrageous! /s
All included in the article and look at everyone getting triggered, lol.
Sounds like a non event?
Always hard to tell. On the surface, yeah its a non event. The ocean is huge, and seawater already contains several radioactive elements, so a little more is unlikely to do much harm if released in a controlled manner. But things like this are often lies. Pretenses to downplay things. So maybe the water is more contaminated than they claim. Or they will dump it faster than they should. Or they dump it in a spot populated by fishing stock. Who knows.
But my gut says non event. Its nuclear so lots of eyes on it. You have more to worry about the things that aren't obviously dangerous, like dupont and their Teflon bullshit, poisoning a whole town. The less obviously dangerous something is, the more bs the companies involved in it can get away with.
Yes what more can be done….
What a environmental catastrophe on what Japan is about to do
Is this based on anything apart from a news.com.au article?
Something perhaps with some actual scientific information behind it including what water quality levels the wastewater will be treated to prior to release, the actual dilution rate when it is discharged, and any actual negative environmental impacts due to this?Until then, I'll keep my pearls unclutched.
Won't somebody please think of the children?! (They won't be as delicious anymore).
Unclear water into the ocean is good enough……what scientific evidence do you need exactly?
Unclear water into the ocean is good enough
Where do you think the water goes when you flush the toilet? We discharge plenty of 'unclear' water into our waterways every day.
Without any knowledge of the water treatment process being applied, or the expected thresholds that the treatment is aiming for, you're just the kind of reader a news.com.au click bait article is aimed at.
Oh? So you haven't heard about the Ohio disaster either then?
It wasn't on our door step, hence, news.com.au didn't get that many clicks.
The Ukraine isn't exactly on our doorstep either though, nor the alleged 'Chinese Spy Balloon' and we get bombarded with that garbage… :)
Major environmental disaster featuring the largest dioxin bloom in history. Who cares?
I have to say I enjoyed the Chinese Balloon Saga so far. Quiet entertaining.
@Aerith-Waifu: Yeah I thought it was hilarious as well. A 400K missile to blow up what was possibly a kids experiment.
Actually I didn't, googling now
Nah already used up my rage click news article for the morning
What's a rage click?
It seems news.com.au ran out of news stories. It is treated and diluted to make it safe for marine life. And it this going to be a 40-year process, not overnight dumping of millions of tons.
If you believe that have the means and technology in doing so, I don't
have the means and technology in doing so
based on their current and past activities, hell yes.
You may not want to look at Australia’s human rights violations, particularly how we now have joined Rwanda in an exclusive club
Please explain??? You mean the treatment of boat people?
Pretty sure we heard this one before , it's within international guidelines no?
I remember they did it and then stopped due to international pressure, now they starting again. I could be wrong though
Radioactivity is a natural phenomenon. We don't create it. Earth is radioactive. Water is radioactive.
We take it out of the ground and concentrate it a billion times, use it, then, in this case we dilute it a gazillion times and put it back.
What exactly is the hysteria about?
Bananas are radioactive.
Surely it is not…..or is it?
The screen you're using to read this is radioactive
Releasing water that's been treated before being put in storage and then treated again before being released to an "acceptable" level is surely a lot better than all of the untreated radioactive water that has ended up in the Pacific over the last 10+ years. There is other non sensationalist reporting out there easily found with a quick google, worth a read.
If the water is THAT safe, why don't they use them to water the rice fields or vegetable gardens?
Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tonnes of Contaminated Water in The Pacific
They have been talking about it for years now.
News flash, all the water they are pumping into the core to keep it cool, isn't being recovered….. So guess where that is going already?
Came here, saw news.com.au, walked out. NOPE!
Better than Sky news for sure……
The amount of radiation, dilution factor, and the isotope present needs to be considered.
The News Limited story is not trying to show facts and have a rational discussion. They're trying to provoke fear and panic. They even included a photo of a nuclear explosion mushroom cloud in the story. Relevance? None. But it will inspire the fear News Limited wants.
Fear about what's happening or to warn people if we don't do something now it may happen?
It's literally a drop in the ocean.
The volume of the Pacific Ocean is ~660 million cubic kilometres.
The volume of water relevant to this discussion is ~1 million cubic metres.
It's literally 0.00000000015% (that's nine zeros before the 1).
As stated above, any change in oceanic composition will be immeasurable. Total beat up.
But but but…it makes for good clickbait…you dont need logic here.
Facts and logic are on life support in 2023.
A bit like all the facts used to push climate change and all the so called "clean" renewables?
Pollution is pollution, there is no sugar coating it whatsoever
The USA has been kept silent on Japans behaviour!
USA had done more nuclear testing in the pacific.
The US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan. On civilian cities in Japan. I doubt the Japanese would take very kindly to be preached to about nuclear stuff by the US.
Yet their relations are tied to the US.
Not recently though unless I missed the news?
probable few decades ago. but the half life of U-235 is approx 700 million years. So not so long ago in comparison.
More anti-Asia propaganda from news.com.au 🙄
This one I have to disagree
I don’t understand the science behind this, but if the Japanese keep insist that the treated water is drinkable, great to use as industry water, however many times more safe then European standards. I don’t see why they’re not just doing this, they can dump all the water they want in their inland rivers and streams. Even if the harm is low, why are we willing to accept that? Pee is generally safe when diluted, but would you willingly drink that? And i doubt its Japan plans to xxx, its Japan finally announce to the world, they admitted dumping in the ocean and now they don’t even conceal it.
They run out of space to put them, if they are drinkable, why not use it or even sell it for commercial purposes?
It should be mandatory for News.com.au journalists to finish primary school before writing this crap.
What other website you think is better?
Anything not murdoch owned
The USA is the biggest polluter of plastic in the world….i dont think they have any moral compass to stand on
I always thought US came after China? No?
not in plastic
China biggest polluter of CO2
USA biggest polluter of plastic
per capita US definitely is the top
Meanwhile, a South Korean government study released this month also found the release of the wastewater would have little impact on South Korean waters.
“That change would be too small to detect,” an official at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology said, according to Reuters.
And the nation of Micronesia has also recently dropped its opposition to the release of the water, with president David Panuelo telling reporters he was no longer worried.
Sounds like a non event?