International Forum: Don't contaminate the oceans with radioactivity!
The JP government and TEPCO are preparing to release “ALPS-treated” contaminated water from the #Fukushima Daiichi #nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean despite strong opposition from both within and outside of #Japan.
The JP government has stated that it will not take any action without the consent of relevant stakeholders. However, everyone who shares the Pacific Ocean will be affected. Japan must consult not only Japanese fishermen, but also other communities in Japan and other parts of the world, including Pacific Island nations.
Let's listen to the voices of young Marshallese in the Pacific, whose livelihoods depend on the ocean, and people active in the West Coast of the United States. As people to together live in different parts of the Pacific Rim, let us collaborate to find a way to halt the dumping of radioactive water into the ocean.
Dec 17 (JST): https://shrtm.nu/BzdQ
@bojacobs There's 2.4g of tritium in 1,250,000 tons of water there. In order to reach LD50 for tritium over 400 days, you'd need to drink over 7 tons of undiluted water for each of those days. I chose 400 days since the biological half-life of tritium is 40 days and ignored that most would have left your system before then and the fact that drinking 7 tons of water in 1 day would kill you.
