Tritium was not detected in the latest sample of two olive flounders caught Sept. 24, the Fisheries Agency said.

No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday.

Tritium was not detected in the latest sample of two olive flounders caught Sunday, the Fisheries Agency said on its website. The agency has provided almost daily updates since the start of the water release, in a bid to dispel harmful rumors both domestically and internationally about its environmental impact.

The results of the first collected samples were published Aug. 9, before the discharge of treated water from the complex commenced on Aug. 24. The water had been used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the plant but has undergone a treatment process that removes most radionuclides except tritium.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      It wasn’t even necessarily the design, although that didn’t help. It was the bureaucracy that stopped them from doing anything about the problem.

    • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
      220·
      1 year ago

      Chernobyl was about the worst case scenario, and most of the blame is on dogshit soviet designs.

      It’s happened three other times since then…

      Edit: one other time

      • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Where and when were the 3 other nuclear meltdowns? I wasn’t able to find anything with a quick search, maybe I’m not looking for the right terms.

        • SARGEx117@lemmy.worldEnglish
          161·
          1 year ago

          I guarantee other person was referring to 3 mile island like most people do when talking about “nuclear disasters”.

          Solet’s review the casualties and damages!

          Oh wait, you mean nothing happened to hurt people or cost tons of money in damages?

          And it was almost entirely hyped up by media outlets trying to make this their chernobyl?

          And anti-nuclear propagandists who are almost entirely paid by fossil fuel companies?

          You know, THAT 3MI “Meltdown”.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            And anti-nuclear propagandists who are almost entirely paid by fossil fuel companies?

            They’re dastardly clever. They’ve created a narrative that it’s fossil fuels companies who are actually pushing nuclear technology. I suspect they’re also behind the unusual opposition to hydrogen – if hydrogen is ubiquitous, it’s going to be green hydrogen more likely than not. By trying to stop that, fossil fuel companies are able to continue selling and using hydrogen from refinery operations.