Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Japan begins releasing Fukushima water" video.

  1. The people who protest this release are people who have never bothered, and couldn't bother, to research the situation and learn the facts. Instead, they prefer to remain ignorant, prefer to scream like petulant children, prefer to express their ill-informed emotions. There is much to learn on the IAEA website (which also has a Chinese version). Here are some facts: -The waste water has been tested by numerous international bodies and independent nuclear isotope labs, and has been deemed safe for release. -At the beginning, there were many different (and highly dangerous) radioactive isotopes in the waste, but all but Tritium has since been removed by a number of chemical processes. -Tritium cannot be removed by chemical processes. -Tritium occurs naturally in the environment, including in water vapor in the air. Sometimes it falls down as rain. -The amount of Tritium that falls as rain over Japan every year is more than the amount that is now getting released. Naturally, countries bigger than Japan see much more Tritium falling as rain every year. Don't worry, if you forgot your umbrella you're not going to get radiation sickness. People who continue to protest in the face of these facts can best be viewed with contempt, or at least with pity. Pity at their embrace of stupidity, their stubborn ignorance, their rejection of rational thought, their refusal to learn new information, their decision to rely on pure emotion. People like that are best avoided. Run away from them, and don't look back. EDIT: I will follow my own advice and NOT answer any IGNORANT questions or comments below.
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