Japan PM says Fukushima wastewater release can't be delayed

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Perhaps this article will ease people's minds a bit ...

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c

Yet despite their radioactive diet, the crabs suffer no obvious ill effects. Palumbi and López are sequencing their genomes for comparison against samples from American Samoa and from Bikini before the nuclear testing began. “The question is, what is it doing to them?” Palumbi says. “We don’t have any idea. The way to get into the heart of it is to look at the DNA.”

It’s tempting to draw reassuring lessons from the atoll’s recovery. The research, López says, provides at least preliminary evidence that even if you destroy an ecosystem, it can heal with time — and with freedom from human interference.

Ironically, Bikini reefs look better than those in many places she’s dived.

“It didn’t look like this nightmare-scape that you might expect,” she says. “And that’s still something that’s weird to process.”