• Drusas@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I was there during the disaster and I’ll just say that radiation is terrifying. You know that it’s all around you, but you can’t sense it in any way. That’s a special kind of fear.

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            2 years ago

            You’re talking to a disabled person. You’re just doing a different sort of fear-mongering.

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                2 years ago

                I know all of that, but thank you for sharing it anyway. To be honest, you did. Your wording implied that I wasn’t one of those so severely impacted or that I somehow didn’t understand the gravity of the situation for the elderly and disabled.

                I know that wasn’t your intention, but it’s an emotional subject for me.

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      2 years ago

      if you ask these people what background radiation is they mostly just stare at you with huge bambi eyes.

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    2 years ago

    To make it clear: it’s common practice to put water for cooling nuclear plants back in the watersource. The “feared” molecules Tritium and carbon-14 are common in this waste water. In lower concentrations, but thats the reason they dilute the water. That’s something China and South Korea do every day!

  • badhops@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    well… there are these huge floating fortresses in the ocean right now… every day the people working on the reactor they will do a complex math problem… everyday the answer is the same… dilution is the solution… and proceeded to dump contaminated water into the ocean.

    gotta love the war machine