Fukushima: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over (opens in new tab)

Here's a better source from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/fukushima-fallo...

Quote:

>But the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other experts have said the seepage will not affect areas beyond the sea directly off the coast of Fukushima Daiichi. "Even 300 tonnes [a day] — that's still going to be diluted to an almost undetectable level before it would get to any US territory," said the commission's information officer Scott Burnell.

You have to remember that this water isn't pure radioactivity, it's itself already a dilution.

A quick calculation on Wolfram Alpha shows that it would be 292,000,000 L Which would fill 116 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Trying to spread apathy? That's a new one. I'm just trying to stop the spread of unreasonable hyperbole on HN which used to be much more skeptical towards links like this. There are enough things to get riled up about (the NSA for starters), no need to add lies like in OP's link to that.

Here's a post to downvote, feel free.