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.
Oh, I don’t assume that they didn’t do their diligence. I am just explaining why people wouldn’t automatically trust things solely because they have the title “scientist”, even it is a group of them.
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.
Oh, I don’t assume that they didn’t do their diligence. I am just explaining why people wouldn’t automatically trust things solely because they have the title “scientist”, even it is a group of them.
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.