28 points

This is a stupid article. Relevant XKCD

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There is always an XKCD.

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The thumbnail just so happens to show the sea lol. It was easy to jump to the wrong conclusion already!

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The Japan Times reported that at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ (Tepco) Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant officials “confirmed Monday that water from a spent fuel pool spilled over due to the earthquake, but that no abnormalities in operation had been detected”. In an update issued on Tuesday, Tepco said: “At the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the readings on the stack monitors and monitoring posts installed at the power plant site boundaries are within normal fluctuation ranges, and there is no radioactivity impact on the outside world. The spent fuel pool cooling system is in operation at all units, and there are no abnormalities in fuel cooling. As of 12:25 pm on 2 January, all patrols had been completed and no abnormalities caused by this earthquake were confirmed.”

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/No-abnormalities-reported-at-Japanese-nuclear-plan

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So what your saying is that the title is technically correct, becuse the water spilled was containing nuclear materials, but written in such a way that anyone reading it would come to the wrong conclusion that radioactive material contained in the water left the plant.

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No actually, the water in spent fuel pools does not contain radioactive material. The water provides shielding. You could hypothically swim in that water just dont dive and also they would never let you do that because it would contaminate the pool.

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Yes, the water is not particularly radioactive. It does however contain the spent fuel rods at the bottom that are.

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Apparently someone still believe TEPCO…

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Hey friend, it’s 2024. Please leave the r-slur in the past where it belongs.

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10 points

The fossil fuel industry will jump on these events like crazy.

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No. No they don’t. Oil and gas was supporting and were going to cornerstone the construction of a nuclear plant in our area some fifteen years earlier and environmental groups along with public outcry got it shut down.

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74 points

STOP nuclear fear mongering.

Coal power plants kill more people than nuclear ever has, thanks to fear mongering countries like germany are opening up those dangerous kind of power plants that also emits a ton of greenhouse emissions.

By spreading fearmongering you’re killing people.

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And coal ash spews a ton of radioactive material in the air as well.

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