Here in SK right now (yes it’s 4:30am), everyone’s against it but no one knows the data. Once people see the data they’re like “oh”.
South Korea has an inherent hatred for Japan, so this isn’t surprising at all.
The Japanese did some pretty radical things during the occupation. It’s interesting to see the ripple effects of these policies so far into the future.
It’s more like a wound that never healed than just ripples - early South Korean leaders were people who had formerly collaborated with the Japanese, and it showed in the way they treated their people. It’s only relatively recently that South Korea became what anyone would call a liberal democracy.
Korea has an inherent hatred for Japan
As we should. The Japanese government has been jovially profiteering off of Korea since they annexed and “colonized” the peninsula all the way to well after the Korean War where they used the genocidal massacre of Koreans in the bloody brothers war to jump-start their economy out of their post-war devastation.
If Americans think it’s ok, how about we grab a few tankers and dump it off the California coast?
Two-faced fucks.
Edit: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507
The water contains traces of other non-tritium radioactive isotopes. These do bioaccumulate.
Then y’all shouldn’t have a problem with it, right?
Yet, every single response has been antagonistic because nobody wants this waste dumped near them.
This water? I wouldn’t be concerned with at all. I’d gladly fill a swimming pool with it and shine some UV lights on it and throw a pool party. It would be approximately as dangerous as drinking from uranium glass. I wouldn’t recommend drinking large quantities of the water, much like I would recommend with all pool water, but otherwise it doesn’t matter.
For more information on this subject, check out Bong Joon Ho’s 2006 documentary The Host.
How far do they dump it from the coast?
This whole thing would legitimately be the stupidest story of the decade in any decade where Donald Trump isn’t making daily headlines.
