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The Japanese eat a huge amount of seafood. They aren't dumb enough to pollute their main source of protein more than what's deemed scientifically safe, and I trust them to do that.
This is just age old Chinese racism shrouded in greenwashing. I'd like to see the stats on the pollution flowing into the ocean from China. I guarantee it's 10x worse than anything Japan is doing.
Tepco is a private enterprise, isn't it?
Wouldn't be the first time a private company fucked people over for profit.
I seem to remember tepco doing something where they cut corners and lied and put the japanese people in danger and cost them $400 billion and then lied about the cleanup and cut corners further contaminating fisheries for 9 years.
I can't quite remember what that was. Must have been chinese propaganda.
Must have been.
Japan is releasing nuclear waste from a reactor they failed to design with sufficient safety protections given its location.
China pollutes like crazy, but your whataboutism argument doesn't matter.
Japan is releasing nuclear waste into the oceans because they failed to understand the safety requirements necessary for their nuclear reactors.
The tritium levels in the water they are releasing are far below what is considered safe for drinking water by almost any group in the world. At that level of you were to drink the water all year you would receive a dose of 4 mrem. 30 mrem is the average radiation dose a person receives just from background radiation. But you go off repeating 50 year old fossil fuel propaganda.
Do you take some wine with your daily propaganda meals ?
Nuclear waste? You mean tritium?
It was hit by an unprecedented strong earthquake tsunami combo. No amount of engineering could have prevented its destruction. Bear in mind the Richter scale is not linear. Dumbass.
The tsunami was a direct consequence of the earthquake, they should have calculated that in.
If they can’t build a power plant to the necessary specifications to not explode at that location, they should build it somewhere else.
The scale matters. That earthquake is one of the biggest ever recorded. It's difficult to account for things that are entirely unprecedented. That said, if that actually built it to spec it probably would have survived just fine.
There was literally another plant in nearly the same conditions that survived because they didn't cut corners when building it.