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by Pigalowda 1031 days ago
“190 becquerels per liter”

Oh gee oh wow!

1 millicurie (mCi) = 37 megabecquerels (MBq)

1 PET/CT scan is between 4-20 mCi.

So I guess if you drink, snort, bathe and just enematize yourselves with 48,684 liters of this poisonous horrible water it will be the same as getting a single PET CT.

The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

These people have to breathe canned air Space Balls style but they have time to cry and complain about 190 becquerels that are going to be diluted to homeopathic concentration rapidly.

Why don’t they find time to worry about radon gas? We all are probably breathing in enough of that shit to actually give us lung cancer but it doesn’t bother most.

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Apparently even 1 banana smoothie will deliver an order of magnitude more radiation than drinking 1l of that water. https://ionactive.co.uk/resource-hub/blog/a-banana-smoothie-...
Why release it and not keep it for domestic use then?

> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

Not just Chinese, South Koreans too https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/protests-mount-so...

You should drink that water if you complain about them being upset

That’s fine, I’ll drink it. You going to get your hands on some and send it to me? You can post it on your telegram/signal/X accounts
This isn’t a gotcha. I’ll absolutely drink it.
> The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd. Especially as their shitty air pollution blankets the entire Pacific.

There are also multiple Chinese/Korean NPPs that have each released in one year multiple times the amount of radiation contained in the Fukushima annual release plan (22 trillion Bq). This isn’t because of any incident they had, these are just normal operations for these plants. These moves have very little to do with science and are just East Asian political posturing as usual.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/fukushim...

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/asia-pacific/20230623-...

https://japan-forward.com/china-and-south-korea-too-release-...

>The amount of whining, specifically Chinese whining, is absurd.

China needs to cool it with the xenophobia.