U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage

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U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage
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Yes, the ignorance is mainly caused by governments and lobbies keeping quiet about what actually happened and washing down data

More like, ignorance caused by my local news deciding to run a story telling people there is a controversy, without making a simple statement like the water is less radioactive than a banana. There's a controversy in part because the media encourages it, at almost every opportunity.

If you believe it's safer than a banana why don't you go living in Futaba? I heard the houses are pretty cheap there

Most folks, including nuclear advocates, have little understanding of either fission products or neutron activation. They really have no need to. I don't think the data isn't there if you look for it though. It's just not simple to understand.