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Petrolicious88 said:

@Bellum_Romanum How come you always write 30 sentence tirades with only 3 periods. Forces me to read everything twice.

Jokes aside, just cause a person criticizes China doesn’t mean they are anti-China. Remember that B.

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Petrolicious88 said:

@Bellum_Romanum How come you always write 30 sentence tirades with only 3 periods. Forces me to read everything twice.

Jokes aside, just cause a person criticizes China doesn’t mean they are anti-China. Remember that B.

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Biscuits said:

As long as they pay their taxes and follow regulations, they don't present a problem at all, so I don't see why @Petrolicious88 thinks this is some sort of gotcha.

Local brands have advantages in cafes, teahouses, restaurants, fine dining etc, but they don't often provide the convinience or prices of big chain stores.

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ougoah said:

You realise that all reactors release tritium but the Japanese ex-reactor has released dozens of types of contaminants not only tritium.

Highly misleading Japanese article focusing only on ONE aspect of the measure.

Other nuclear reactors do not release this much radioactive Cesium isotopes into the water. Not to mention material from the reactor explosions, fragments, debris, fuel and so on. What Japan has done here with that propaganda piece is as bad as Soviet/North Korean levels. Japan is no better to be honest.

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FairAndUnbiased said:

Tritium is 1 component of the wastewater. There's also cesium, strontium, iodine, lead, etc. Why not mention those? Why not mention total radioactivity? Why only tritium? Hydrogen and it's isotopes are minimally soluble in water and can be removed by boiling, what's the solubility of cesium and iodide? Hint: ridiculously high.

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jwnz said:

Thank your for the info, much appreciated.

My understanding is that the wastewater will be treated to filter out all contaminants leaving only tritium still in the water as it can't be feasibly filtered out. The treated wastewater is then diluted with fresh seawater to reduce the amount of tritium to be 1/50th of the accepted safety level, before being released into the ocean. Based on the planned treatment, the wastewater should be safe. We have a university nuclear physicist in NZ quoted in a NZ news article agreeing with the assessment.

Granted, the safety assessment is based on the planned treatment of the wastewater, how feasible and effective is that I have no idea as I'm not a nuclear power engineer. Also, I don't know the credibility of the Japanese officials in the nuclear energy industry neither.

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KYli said:

Asking for money as Taiwan's economy flounders.

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jwnz said:

Thank your for the info, much appreciated.

My understanding is that the wastewater will be treated to filter out all contaminants leaving only tritium still in the water as it can't be feasibly filtered out. The treated wastewater is then diluted with fresh seawater to reduce the amount of tritium to be 1/50th of the accepted safety level, before being released into the ocean. Based on the planned treatment, the wastewater should be safe. We have a university nuclear physicist in NZ quoted in a NZ news article agreeing with the assessment.

Granted, the safety assessment is based on the planned treatment of the wastewater, how feasible and effective is that I have no idea as I'm not a nuclear power engineer. Also, I don't know the credibility of the Japanese officials in the nuclear energy industry neither.

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