[tree_enjoyer]

Well, authorities have also said the area around Palestine, Ohio, is safe after the massive toxic chemical spill, and I don't really believe that. I'm not arguing the water from Fukushima is not safe, but I will absolutely argue that one should be skeptical of authorities saying "do not worry everything is fine"

[ceejayoz]

China can pop a geiger counter 12 miles offshore if they like. We don't have to take Japan's word for it; the IAEA is monitoring, and significant radiation releases are hard to hide.

The physics here is not on the side of conspiracy theorists.

> China, which opposed the release and imposed a ban on Japanese seafood, has been accused of hypocrisy since its own nuclear plants routinely pump wastewater with higher levels of tritium than that found in Fukushima’s discharge.

I have a vial of radioactive tritium on my keychain as a novelty.

edit: If you like, when they're discharging water, there's literally real-time monitoring you can watch on a dashboard. https://www.iaea.org/topics/response/fukushima-daiichi-nucle...