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5.5 tons of radioactive water leaked from Fukushima nuclear plant (english.news.cn)

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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

whatever discussion have previously been on other posts on this community I’m completely unaware of.

Understood, but just wanted you to know that we do agree that concentration matters.

If you’re dealing with tritiated water, no sane person would just call it “water”."

This is also why it wasn’t called that.

While it hasn’t been clear in the articles I’ve seen on today’s information, there’s reasonable grounds to assume this could be tritiated water given it was when the water was intentionally discharged in October.

Japanese limits in acceptable radioactivity for sea release is 60,000 Becquerels per liter, or about 1.3 billion in 5.5 tons. Even by this arguably high limit, the 22 billion is still well over this.

Consequently, it’s reasonable that people would react to this as a clear failure — the power plant is leaking water with radioactive contaminants at higher than permitted regulatory levels.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev -3 points 1 year ago

Understood, but just wanted you to know that we do agree that concentration matters.

Sounds like we are mostly on the same page honestly. Just different reactions to the headline.

While it hasn’t been clear in the articles I’ve seen on today’s information, there’s reasonable grounds to assume this could be tritiated water given it was when the water was intentionally discharged in October.

It's quite common for leaks to contain tritiated water as it's a byproduct of the energy production, and it isn't a chemical that always gets removed during water treatment like strontium or cesium. In the case of fukushima, their concentration levels are low enough that it isn't really removed during water treatment. They absolutely did not have anywhere close 5,5 ton of pure tritiated water leaked though.

Japanese limits in acceptable radioactivity for sea release is 60,000 Becquerels per liter, or about 1.3 billion in 5.5 tons. Even by this arguably high limit, the 22 billion is still well over this.

I'm not saying it isn't newsworthy. I'm just annoyed by the poor headline.