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No tritium found in fish one month after Fukushima water release (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday.

Tritium was not detected in the latest sample of two olive flounders caught Sunday, the Fisheries Agency said on its website. The agency has provided almost daily updates since the start of the water release, in a bid to dispel harmful rumors both domestically and internationally about its environmental impact.

The results of the first collected samples were published Aug. 9, before the discharge of treated water from the complex commenced on Aug. 24. The water had been used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the plant but has undergone a treatment process that removes most radionuclides except tritium.

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 year ago

I remember commenting on a post where China condemned Japan for doing this.

I asked ppl there "is this actually bad or is this kind of par for the course of getting rid of the dangers left behind in Fukushima?" And most of them were like "it's not a common occurrence but it's not inherently dangerous and it's not that big of a deal"

To me it looks like the vast majority of objections to this came from strategic propaganda related to domestic relations of China and/or other nations.

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[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

they did however find an absolute fuck tonne of microplastics.

[-] mufasio@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 year ago

I’ll trust the nuclear scientists that say that the release is safe, but there should be a transparent international panel, including China which has concerns about the release into fishing waters, that is given access to conduct their own tests with all parties agreeing to release their findings.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The old "trust but verify" position. Agreed 100%. If everything is perfectly safe there should be no reason not to have multiple independent, third-parties with no skin in the game to verify. This is good for everyone as it reassures the fishermen, those buying fish, and really the rest of the world.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Is somebody preventing them from catching and testing fish?

[-] Kahlenar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Precious tritium

[-] toolCHAINZ@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago

The power of the sun..... in the palm of my hand

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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

Probably because the octopuses used it all for their science experiments. It's a scientific fact that octopuses hoard tritium. Source: Spider-man 2.

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Unsurprising.

[-] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

in other news water is wet

[-] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 16 points 1 year ago

Dangit, now how am I gonna get my piscine superpowers/fish shaped tumors?

[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

Lol, I read that as swimming pool

[-] ours@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

Found the fellow Romand (French-speaking Swiss for the rest of the World).

[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago

Well I'm sorry to say that I'm a Schpuntz but at least I know what a "piscine" is :D

[-] ours@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

Nobody's perfect ^/s^

[-] luckyhunter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Fantastic news! so many people are so afraid of the word "nuclear", and don't understand how large of a volume the ocean is. the lethal dose of Fentanyl is like the size of a grain of rice. Put all of the known legal and illegal volume of fentanyl into the ocean and it would be undetectable.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Sample size: 64

Also, are there other things like Caesium-137 that pose a risk?

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Not really. This video by Kyle Hill does an amazing job at explaining it.

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[-] mjq07@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Cs-137 and other fission and activation products can be largely removed by treatment. H-3 is a bit trickier since it literally is part of the water. Luckily it's a fairly weak beta emitter with a relatively short half life so causes very, very little long term harm.

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

All that other stuff was filtered out, but the tritium is near impossible to separate, because it is chemically identical to the hydrogen in normal water.

As for caesium, there are still detectable amounts of Cs-137 in most of the word from the thousands of atomic bomb tests. It's half life is just 30 years, but it will still be detectable for a hundred years or so because of the huge amount we released.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

The ocean is 1.335 × 10^21 litres. That number is stupid big. There are 7.5 × 10^18 grains of sand on Earth. If every person in Japan flushed a litre of the reactor water down their toilet, it would be diluted to nothing in no time at all.

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People have been far more concerned about the efficacy of the ALPS system at extracting other contaminants than they are about tritium contamination. The ALPS system is unproven and the wastewater they're releasing would be pretty toxic as far as other radioactive isotopes is concerned if the ALPS system isn't doing it's job perfectly.

[-] Orionza@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like this but would rather see a multi country coordinated oceanic study. We're all in this together.

[-] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

ignorance and paranoia about radioactivity go hand in hand.

i know so many otherwise smart people who lose it on this issue. because they just think any radioactivity = destroy planet forever . completely ignorant to how it actually works, and just think every power plant must eventually chernobyl and that one barrel of nuclear waste is enough to destroy 1000s of miles or something equally absurd.

totally sad.

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Two questions: If it's only tritrium why does anyone really care? Why couldn't they just sell it rather than dump it?

I thi k I just realised those questions both have the same answer...

[-] FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I for one would like to try this "nuclear fish"......preferably crumbed, deep fried and doused in lemon juice. With a serve of fries.

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