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.
That water will contain about 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organisation drinking limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre, according to Tepco. A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity.
I know just enough about radioactivity to know that I don’t know enough about radioactivity to form an opinion on this.
Will there be enough radiation to actually fuck anything up? Or is this just a scary headline sensationalizing something that’s actually benign?
TIL what a becquerel is