• Yllych [any]
    hexbear
    69
    10 months ago

    Maybe the radioactivity of the water is overblown, but this feels like "I will publicly smoke one cigarette to prove lung cancer is overblown"

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      53
      10 months ago

      Its probably overblown, but it's crazy to pretend this isn't a case of leaders going "we can handle an extra x cases of cancer per million in order to save $100"

      • Yllych [any]
        hexbear
        25
        10 months ago

        Yes, I saw some people on here saying that the half life of tritium is such that if it were contained for 50 years then the radioactivity would be much less.

        not necessarily an easy task, but I refuse to believe humanity is incapable of doing it. If the Japanese government made serious moves towards that kind of solution I think you'd see a lot less animosity coming from their neighbouring countries.

        • RION [she/her]
          hexbear
          20
          10 months ago

          https://hexbear.net/comment/3812997 apparently they forgot to take something into account and there's actually little to no difference

          • Yllych [any]
            hexbear
            9
            10 months ago

            Ok I was wrong, the water thing is definitely way overblown