Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tonnes of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, putting into motion a plan that has drawn strong criticism from China.
The thing is that TEPCO and the Japanese government had such a conspiracy of silence going on, and such an insistence that their implementation of nuclear power was safe, that nobody believes a word they say - nor should they.
Myself, I think the release is probably safe. But I’m not an expert, and I’m not really qualified to read scientific studies (which is an important thing to know about yourself), and I wasn’t lied to by the people now telling me this is totes harmless about how Fukushima was totes harmless until oh, it wasn’t.
The thing is that TEPCO and the Japanese government had such a conspiracy of silence going on, and such an insistence that their implementation of nuclear power was safe, that nobody believes a word they say - nor should they.
Myself, I think the release is probably safe. But I’m not an expert, and I’m not really qualified to read scientific studies (which is an important thing to know about yourself), and I wasn’t lied to by the people now telling me this is totes harmless about how Fukushima was totes harmless until oh, it wasn’t.
Shit’s complicated.