Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an...
by toomuchtodo on Monday August 05, 2013 @01:54PM
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Does this mean we have to start equipping undersea seismic sensors and surface buoys with geiger counters? :(
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Re:Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an...
by Bjoern on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:30PM
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The dilution of the radioactive content by the ocean is probably high. Overall the risk is low for significant contamination due to the overall ocean volume.
The issues are so-called hot-spots which cause certain fish to be extremely radioactive and streams causing concentrations of radioactive materials highly contaminating only certain regions and fish.
That being said, there are so many pollutants in the oceans that I'm confused why people are not more outraged about ocean pollution.
Vice Documentary about garbage streams. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41rO7mL6zM
Finally, its certainly not acceptable to have on-going ocean pollution, which is probably happening in Fukushima Daiichi.