Do you condemn Japan TEPCO’s discharge of the nuclear contaminated water?

21 comments

1. No.

2. Just asking that question makes it seem as though you don’t know [the details of the issue](https://www.eurasiantimes.com/politics-or-propaganda-china-worlds-biggest-emitter/).

   Should we condemn the IAEA who approved the release and said it met international safety standards. Or, the international experts who say the impact will be utterly negligible. Or China who has dumped more tritium every year for more than a decade than Japan is now doing?

3. No, because that would be ignorant.

4. はい、同意しません。

5. No, is there actual reason I should condemn them?

6. Only Russia and China are criticizing. That’s what I mean.

7. No

8. Nope.

9. No, it’s 10x less than China has released this year.

10. Nope, I passed 10th grade physics.

11. Why would you condemn something that will have a negligible impact on health and the environment?

    Only people who don’t understand basic physics or are scared by the word “radioactive” are worried about this.

12. I want them to release more

13. No, it’s the most logical and safe thing to do.

14. They don’t exactly have a nestle bottling center near by.

15. In all seriousness… What exactly SHOULD they do with it? What’s your better idea? Keep building an infinite number of storage tanks?

    Sure, it’s not GREAT, but it’s quite literally the only reasonable course of action at this point. And tha vast, vast majority of scientists say that the effect will be more or less negligible. Aside, of course, from making a good talking point for Communist China to stir up anti-foreign sentiment, and for the petrochemical lobbyists to continue delaying the inevitable switch to nuclear power worldwide.

16. I condemned china for being a hypocrite

17. As I understand it, many other nuclear plants around the world regularly discharge water with higher concentrations of tritium as just part of normal operations.

    So, no, this is a non issue for me.

18. Nope

19. No. 1. it’s scientificly safe.; 2. There are countries which release really bad wastewater.; 3. What else should they do with all that water?

20. No because I am not a Chinese or Russian social media troll

21. Yes. Even though I still think it’s safe.

    There were ways of getting around this that didn’t involve this much risk of damage to the already-struggling Fukushima fishing industry, whether said damage was from bad-faith actors such as the Chinese state or from people within Japan who don’t believe it’s safe. (Many in Japan at this point have a sort of reverse crying-wolf attitude to the historically awful TEPCO, so you can’t convince them to think otherwise with scientific papers alone.)

    Imagine being the one who has to break the news to the Fukushima fisherfolk. “Well, it’s not *my* fault that people are scientifically illiterate and/or politically motivated, is it!” Well no it isn’t, but that’s completely missing the point.