https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-japan-news/ They’re not too bad apparently, but there is a lot of misinformation coming out of Japan asking for money: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240102_11/
I tapped/slashed/exed through all the pop-ups and other ads that are docked to one or more edges of the screen on that site so other readers don’t have to:
Overall, we rate The Japan News Right-Center biased based on story selection that slightly favors the right. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.
Thanks for taking one for the team, I have an adblocker on so I didn’t even know it did that.
I have an ad blocker in my desktop browser, but when I tap a link in Voyager, it opens in the app (without ad blocking). I can usually work around it by toggling Reader Mode, so it’s no biggie.
Karma’s a removed, huh?
what’s karma about this?
No damage or leaks were confirmed.
The Japan Times reported that at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ (Tepco) Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant officials “confirmed Monday that water from a spent fuel pool spilled over due to the earthquake, but that no abnormalities in operation had been detected”. In an update issued on Tuesday, Tepco said: “At the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the readings on the stack monitors and monitoring posts installed at the power plant site boundaries are within normal fluctuation ranges, and there is no radioactivity impact on the outside world. The spent fuel pool cooling system is in operation at all units, and there are no abnormalities in fuel cooling. As of 12:25 pm on 2 January, all patrols had been completed and no abnormalities caused by this earthquake were confirmed.”
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/No-abnormalities-reported-at-Japanese-nuclear-plan
So what your saying is that the title is technically correct, becuse the water spilled was containing nuclear materials, but written in such a way that anyone reading it would come to the wrong conclusion that radioactive material contained in the water left the plant.
No actually, the water in spent fuel pools does not contain radioactive material. The water provides shielding. You could hypothically swim in that water just dont dive and also they would never let you do that because it would contaminate the pool.
Yes, the water is not particularly radioactive. It does however contain the spent fuel rods at the bottom that are.
Oh now i get it. Yes, exactly!
What a retarded, fear mongering headline. Nothing even happened! A tiny amount of water has sloshed over the edge of two fuel cooling pools INSIDE the containment area. During a freaking earthquake. I’m pretty sure that is entirely expected and within operating parameters for a plant like this.
Now I’m not really a big fan of nuclear power in general, but this is dumb…
The fossil fuel industry will jump on these events like crazy.
No. No they don’t. Oil and gas was supporting and were going to cornerstone the construction of a nuclear plant in our area some fifteen years earlier and environmental groups along with public outcry got it shut down.
10l and 4l from two distinct pools seem like a rather small amount to spill.
And water that is shielding mildly radioactive material and is not radioactive it’s self no less. You could swim in that water safely.
Oh God. Did the kettle boil over?
The thumbnail just so happens to show the sea lol. It was easy to jump to the wrong conclusion already!
STOP nuclear fear mongering.
Coal power plants kill more people than nuclear ever has, thanks to fear mongering countries like germany are opening up those dangerous kind of power plants that also emits a ton of greenhouse emissions.
By spreading fearmongering you’re killing people.
And coal ash spews a ton of radioactive material in the air as well.
