Into Unscientific

Today’s news about Neon discharging nuclear sewage has dominated the charts on all social platforms, and even our group of writers are talking about it.

However, when everyone chatted, most of the content was general, and many people’s specific understanding of nuclear sewage is actually very vague.

There are also a lot of people in the reader group who want me to introduce the specific situation, so I will write an article and talk to everyone.

 When mentioning this topic, we must first clarify a concept:

 What is nuclear sewage? —This is actually a very important concept, because many people use it to clean up Fukushima.

Our copy happens to be about the nuclear industry. We have introduced some situations about nuclear power plants before:

 At present, 95% of nuclear power plants are light water reactors, which are mainly divided into two types: pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors. Among them, there are three types of water that can be summarized in the concept of nuclear wastewater, also called loop water.

 Primary loop water cools the core, and heat is transferred to the secondary loop water through the steam generator.

 The secondary circuit water impacts the steam turbine and drives the generator to generate electricity.

 As for the third circuit water, it will cool the secondary circuit.

The third circuit water will not come into contact with the reactor core. Currently, the so-called "nuclear sewage" discharged by various countries, including China, is this kind of cooling water.

 But neon is different.

What they discharged this time was standard primary-circuit nuclear sewage, which had direct contact with the reactor core, that is, radioactive materials, and is completely different from the tertiary-circuit water.

 If you still can’t understand it

Here’s an unsightly example, sorry for those with mysophobia:

 Suppose there is a plastic bag with cake inside in front of you. It is sealed extremely tightly without any leakage. You have to soak it in a basin of water every two hours - this water is cooling water.

Chilling water may be mentally disgusting and contain a bit of E. coli, but it’s actually harmless.

 As for the nuclear sewage in Xiaoli this time, it was the water that accumulated after a hole was broken in the plastic bag.

 The nature of the two can be distinguished at a glance.

 So some people on the Internet are saying that [China and South Korea also discharge nuclear wastewater], but they actually refer to cooling water, and the International Atomic Energy Agency has relevant standards.

In addition, these dissing comments about China’s emissions are all about the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant. To put it bluntly, it is the Daya Bay neutrino reactor.

Readers who have read our book should be familiar with the Daya Bay Neutrino Reactor, right?

Now that Salinger has won the Nobel Prize, while giving quantum mechanics a shot in the arm, it also makes Pan Shuai, who is working in the same direction as him, basically have no possibility of winning the Nobel Prize.

 There are only two local achievements that have a chance to win the Nobel Prize in the short term:

One is the quantum anomalous Hall effect discovered by Academician Xue Qikun and Mr. Zhang Shousheng in 2013. Previous integer and fractional quantum Hall effects have won Nobel Prizes.

The second is the neutrino mixing angle θ13 measured by the Daya Bay team. This is the most accurate measurement result among the three neutrino mixing angles at present, and is a real contribution to basic physics.

Mr. Zhang Shousheng, the former, mysteriously "suicided" across the sea on the eve of his return to China. Now he has pointed the finger at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant. The meaning is self-evident.

I also went to the Daya Bay Laboratory for work reasons. I really didn’t dare to drink the water there - but it was not because of radioactivity, but because domestic sewage was being discharged near Shili Silver Beach. Anyone who dares to drink it is a brave person, okay?

But the seafood in Daya Bay is still very delicious, and there is an expert village restaurant there. At that time, I liked eating crabs the most, so don’t be afraid to drink the water from Daya Bay.

Now seven years have passed, and I’m doing well except for writing a book and still being single. Well, if you attribute being single and being single to the problem of cooling water, then it’s hard for me to refute.

alright. Having talked about the concept of nuclear wastewater, let’s talk about the actual impact of the nuclear wastewater discharged from Fukushima this time.

 Let's explain this part in two steps, first talking about the harm, and secondly talking about the dose.

  After all, regardless of the dose, talking about harm is just hooliganism.

There are many radioactive substances in Fukushima nuclear wastewater, but there are two main ones:

 Tritium and Cobalt 60.

Tritium is one of the isotopes of hydrogen. Tritium and its labeled compounds are used in a wide range of applications. Bioactive substances labeled with tritium (such as tritium-labeled thymine) will be used by human cells for cell metabolism due to their biological activity, causing direct internal exposure, thereby seriously endangering the health of the inhaler.

Cobalt 60 can cause hair loss, seriously damage cell tissues in human blood, cause leukopenia, and cause blood system diseases, such as aplastic anemia, and in severe cases, people can suffer from leukemia, etc.

 The above two are basically the main hazardous components of Fukushima nuclear sewage, and there are also some similar radioactive materials.

  But what needs to be explained is that the dose line for the above two to affect the human body is actually very high. Simply - I mean simply the amount of wastewater discharged by Fukushima this time, basically there is no need to consider this aspect.

 Those who can be affected by this pollutant discharge might as well be said to be mutants themselves.

   but but but but but but

 It would be difficult to say if neon emissions continue.

 Because cobalt-60 is enriched in the sea, tritium will enter the atmospheric circulation, enter reservoirs or other water systems through rainfall, and eventually accumulate slowly.

  It is unfortunate that Fukushima’s planned discharge time is 20 to 30 years.

 This is the biggest crux.

 Nature itself has a certain purification power, and the volume of seawater can also dilute sewage. It is unlikely that problems will occur if the current discharge lasts for three to five years, but what about 20 or 30 years?

Unless you don’t get married and have children, you must consider the impact on the next generation—even if it’s not good, it’s your own situation in your later years.

Not to mention that TEPCO has a history of fraud. This company was found to have falsified data in 2018.

Hence, what we should really be concerned about is not just the discharge of nuclear sewage this time, but that Japan has even engaged in this kind of behavior, and it is entirely possible that they will do things that challenge the bottom line in the future.

 So in my personal opinion.

This matter is not an academic issue from beginning to end, because currently no one can actually provide data on the harm caused by sewage discharge to the human body.

But on the other hand.

 This is a simpler issue of values ​​or right and wrong.

 One emission standard that fails to meet the standard is enough to refute everything.

There is nothing wrong with objecting from a Chinese standpoint, but there is no need to argue with those who forcefully clean up the issue—everyone’s final answer is already determined before they speak, and no one can convince anyone.

 Being a reasonable person is worthy of praise, but forcing someone to act like a reasonable person is going too far.

That’s pretty much what I should write. As I was writing this, a hellish joke suddenly came to my mind:

Paul Tibbetts, who dropped the atomic bomb, should be the first person in history to shout "Genshin Impact, activate"