Fukushima wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday(theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
Fukushima wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/22/fukushima-wastewater-from-ruined-nuclear-plant-to-be-released-from-thursday-japan-says
"The water will be released at a maximum rate of 500,000 litres a day. A Japanese official said the first results of tests on discharged seawater could be available at the start of next month. Japan will also test fish in the waters near the plant, and make the results available on the agriculture ministry’s website."
Fish.
Why not bacteria?
They evolve much more quickly, even pseudomonas aeruginosa found in every human and other mammals, can grow a second flagella in a matter of hours in response to changing iron state conditions to speed up its motility.
As this radioactive substance will be persistent for decades to come, I'm left wondering how much this will reduce lower life forms in the seas around the planet because this will dissipate around the planet, and might even reshape or starve food pyramids.
When looking at the bacteria of Chernobyl and how its evolved to thrive in the area, I cant help but think nuclear waste is being used as a bactericide, something that wont necessarily be harmful to higher lifeforms, much like polonium -210 that killed Russian Alexander Litvinenko [1] is found in vegetables[2], fruit, cannabis[3], and tobacco [4], but still a bactericide none the less.
And with a growing global population, keeping the bacteria in check requires novel methods whilst chemical resistance continues unabated, despite the ever increasing diversity of man made chemical compounds, so when knowing about such things as the earthquake bomb[5], like covid has forced working from home, the dispersal of people to less populated parts of the internet connected planet, is this another conspiracy to safe guard food supplies as the global demand for food rises?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#Poisoning...
[2] http://www.gammaexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/05-D...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02659...
[4] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb