A total of 44 fish with cesium levels above 100 becquerels per kg have been found in the Fukushima plant port between May 2022 and May 2023, Tepco confirmed, with 90% of those caught in or near the inner breakwater.
There is a difference between contaminated water, like in Fukushima, and regular non-contaminated cooling water. There should be no radioactive contaminants in the water that the French nuclear power plants release.
Well actually cooling water is bombarded with neutrons, which transforms hydrogen atoms into deuterium and radioactive tritium. It’s just generally regarded as harmless (probably because there’s no good way to test for bioaccumulation.)
Let me know if I’m wrong (certainly possible) but I feel like if we found ONE fish with 180 times the legal limit of radiation, it would warrant a closer look. 44 fish found in an area that had a nuclear disaster sounds like more than enough samples to raise concerns.
(And I don’t really know about France, but sure if there might be a problem there too, I vote we check that out too.)
We probably should measure around France too, they seem to release 500 times the amount of water to the sea https://www.cn.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100194021.pdf
Is the article really talking about 44 fish?
There is a difference between contaminated water, like in Fukushima, and regular non-contaminated cooling water. There should be no radioactive contaminants in the water that the French nuclear power plants release.
Well actually cooling water is bombarded with neutrons, which transforms hydrogen atoms into deuterium and radioactive tritium. It’s just generally regarded as harmless (probably because there’s no good way to test for bioaccumulation.)
Depends, I didn’t see the total number of fish sampled.
If it was 44 fish out of 44 sampled, than 100% being over the limit is significant.
If it was 44 fish out of 1000+, than not so much.
Let me know if I’m wrong (certainly possible) but I feel like if we found ONE fish with 180 times the legal limit of radiation, it would warrant a closer look. 44 fish found in an area that had a nuclear disaster sounds like more than enough samples to raise concerns.
(And I don’t really know about France, but sure if there might be a problem there too, I vote we check that out too.)