kwatt comments

How about Strontium 90?

Caesium 134? Caesium 137?

Iodine 129?

Cobalt 60?

If ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System) can't filter those radioactive substances out, IAEA will never let Japan discharging into ocean whatever.

Chinese govt allows fishing boats and ships to go to the fishery near around Japan. All fish are banned from Japan but it is okay if all fish are brought by Chinses boats/ships from there. What a joke!

Another worry for whales is a resent report on their food supply. Warming weather is killing of the whales food resource. Sooner or latter there will too many whale and not enough food. There will be a need to cull in decade or so.

It seems to me hunting sustainable amount of whale is necessary. Not cull. Cull sounds like killing and dumping in the ocean. Whale meat is a precious food. Let's eat!

Whaling is crucial to Japans food supply.

Whaling is not crucial to Japan's food supply now as long as they can eat enough beef, pork, chicken, etc imported from other countries. Why is Japan hunting whales? Japan thinks they couldn't take enough protein in the future because exporting countries would stop exporting them to Japan someday due to climate change, desertification, world population, war, etc. The shortage of world food will come soon in the future. The hunting more than 100 whales per day is not easy and skills to hunt are very needed, it is just like finding a very small diamond in the very wide desert. Japan has long-time data about travelling whales such as routes, rest and mating areas. Radar is not good in the very wide ocean. They could hunt 1, 2 whales at most there, but not enough protein for all people. Why is Japan hunting whales? It is the skill training to hunt more whales in the future, instead of beef, pork, chicken, etc. A long time ago whale meat saved Japanese people.

I can imagine. If war took place there, Okinawa islands would be good target for China. Okinawans are very worried and still remember very miserable Okinawa battlefield and so many Okinawan people died there between Japan and the US war in 1945.

China never says what part of act that they have done is the act of spy. When a sightseer is taking pictures of usual nice views, China police say this is an act of spy. he will be arrested there. That is a big problem.

It seems to me foreign companies better leave China if you don't want to be arrested and detained for years due to the new spy law.

If they did not work 45 years (age 20 to 65), they usually don't get full pension but can get small amount of pension. There are 2 kinds of pensions: standard (basic) pension and kosei pension of working at company. Wife didn't work at all and husband did work for 45 years. Wife can get about half of husband's full pension when he retired at age 65. Pensions depend on how much and how long you pay every month to govt. This is my understanding about pensions.

I have worked out that I will get ¥30,000 a month on the standard pension I have paid into here in Japan when I retire.

I wonder how long you have been working and paying the pension tax to local govt?

It seems Japanese people have much longer life than ever. Maybe Japan has healthy food, good medical care for all and good environment for life.

It seems failure makes success after a couple of failures, but moon landing is the most difficult part of this mission.

It looks very nice, whatever.

It seems all problems (all posters are just saying conjectures) would be solved if China joined IAEA system to make sure about everything, so better call China should join it again and again.

I just wonder how many people has been dying from radiations and how many people have been suffering from radiations in Japan. As far as I know, no one died from radiations and no one has been suffering from them. About Chernobyl accident in 1986 hundreds/thousands of people died in 5 years and so many people are still suffering from radiations. Its been already 12 years since Fukushima Power plant accident. It seems to me Japan have been under good control.

All have not been removed but most. Japan uses tritium as the metric for safety, while ignoring the other dangerous actinides in nuclear waste. It’s been 12 years since the accident. Carbon-14, Strontium-90, iodine-129, and plutonium-239 are not measured, are they?

It seems to me all radioactive substances would be examined if China joined the IAEA system. The IAEA has been monitoring all substances from the Daiichi power plant since 2011. So no problem about examination of all other radioactive substances. No one has been suffering from marine lives from Fukushima sea.

Yes, these are "CONTAMINATED WATER" because those water had been submerged in the stricken nuclear fuels for quite a long long time cooling. These are not the normal coolant water which were isolated with the nuclear fuels.

After contaminated water go through the ALPS filter times, then it is treated water with tritium. The treated water with tritium is very diluted into ocean. It is normal coolant water.

There is one good thing at least about China saying Japan is dumping contaminated water there. It means China don't eat fish any more which are caught around Japan. Every year China send large fishing ships/boats around Japan to catch as many sanma (saury) fish as they can. Sanma used to be very popular, good, cheap fish in Japan for hundreds of years. But Chinese large ships/boats take all there. Japanese small boats could not catch many fish they wanted, besides sanma is lately very expensive and all are smaller. As far as I know, Chinese people did not eat sanma in the first place in the past. It seems Japanese people are looking forward to many good fat sanma every day every year again.

And his punishment will be to eat sashimi from Fukushima every day for a month.

He would eat the sashimi every day if someone presents him, if you call to send it to him and pay to the fishing port. Fukushima people have been eating fresh fish almost every day since 2011 and before. No one has been suffering from fresh fish from their sea.

Japan is releasing water with contamination of radioactive substances into the oceans

It seems to me all nuclear power plants all over the world are releasing radioactive tritium substances into ocean/lake. Japan is releasing much less than other countries.

About massacre of Koreans, It is said that its start was a bad rumor that someone said that Koreans put poisons in local's well. At that time no one died from poison, but earthquake killed so many people days ago. Their more fearful frustrations affected the crowd (group) psychology to the massacre. So many Koreans were killed by local Japanese and also Japanese from countryside who spoke a little different accent were killed. They said locals could not see difference between Koreans and Japanese. It seems some kinda excited crowd/group are sometimes going very crazy. It might happen in any country.

it comes out as roughly 13.9%

Is that harmful to human's health and other animals? I've heard there is always some tritium in the nature word.

From my understanding, half-life is exponential, meaning that if the half-life of Tritium is 12.3 years, the amount of radiation will be reduced by half in that time. Then in another 12.3 years, half of that amount of radiation will be reduced. For example, 12-6-3-1.5 etc. Not 12-6-0

Your calculation must be right. It seems tritium becomes just water about 35 years later in ocean? No?

You would not die immediately like if you had drunk the dose in one go, but the poison is still accumulated in your body, and you will eventually die.

Is dilution really the solution to pollution?

If you say so, almost everything seems harmful. Cars, trucks, vessels, airplanes, factories, plants and so on are emitting all kinds of gas pollutants out every day. So you say we humans must stop those?

Right, side effects and long term stuff too?

It is said that tritium is reduced by half in 12, 13 years. Most trituim water around Daiichi nuclear plant would be just almost just water 30 years later in ocean. No worry about future effects.

I just wonder how many people died of fish generally contaminated radioactive substances from Fukushima sea and how many people have been suffering from radioactive substances since 2011 and died there? As far as I know, no one died from radiation, maybe it may be wrong, but how many people died and been sick there. They are eating fish almost every day.

Time has changed. Japan should adapt joint custody for their child/children. Most judges still hesitate it.

Indeed, the Japanese can feel at ease knowing that America has their back, just like America has Ukraine's back....

Yes, America has not only Japan's back but also it has most of democratic countries' back too, except China, Russia, Noth Korea and Cuba. Because the USA is a world police. That's why the US always send US soldiers all over the world.

Indeed, the Japanese can feel at ease knowing that America has their back, just like America has Ukraine's back....

Only difference is Japan is not at war (for 78 years and from now) and also pays a lot of money to the US military facilities.

Japan has saved a lot of money thanks to the US because they have been able to invest the money that they don't spend on defense into their economy. Essentially, they get a superior military defending their soil for a cheaper price.

Japan could not build up its own military after WW2. The US did not let Japan do it. That's why the US had to protect Japan and the US wanted to put military bases in Okinawa for its national interest, so that is US-Japan security treaty. If Japan could build up its own military, it would not need the US protection. So it has been recovering its country economy without wars. by the way, Japan is paying the US military much more than Germany, Italy and others. And Japan always thanks the US.

Oh let's not forget about Japan dumping radioactive wastewater into our oceans

All nuclear power plants all over the world are dumping radioactive tritium water into lake/ocean. Don't forget the US has been also dumping much more than Japan so far. But of course, France is number 1.