This is such a non-issue it's ridiculous. There is honestly more of a danger from heavy metals in the fish they ate than from radiation. Tritium is a very, very low level beta-emitter, and at the concentrations they're releasing (less than 1500 Bq/L, ~4E-8 Ci/L), drinking nothing but water contaminated at that level for an entire year would yield a dose rate of less than 4 mrem/year (based on the NRC math that 60,900 pCi/L for a year yields a dose of 4mrem). For context, 4 mrem (40 μSv) is the amount of exposure you receive in a flight from NYC to LA.. That is damn near a rounding error on the average yearly exposure to members of the public.

But people gotta be scared because Joe Public doesn't really understand radiation, and fear sells.

It amazes me that this story has continued to ruin in the media, it's simply fear mongering nonsense to suggest that the extremely diluted minor smidge of radiation that might be present in a water sample collected after this controlled release could in any way be dangerous.

You're in more danger from radiation flying on a plane, and the media isn't constantly screaming about how we should never ever get on a plane.

Honestly, it just depresses me. Anyone who's looked at the facts for 30 seconds knows there's zero story here, and yet the media continue to assume we're uneducated idiots who can be easily manipulated into being scared of the big bad radiation.

This sounds like that episode of The Simpson, except of course it’s safe duh.

"Wait, sir! Not the spikey one! ...

...Dammit, we lost him."

While I understand the science behind the release of the wastewater; I also really do understand why people are so willing to ban this.

It doesn't matter if it is safe to eat or not. People have a right to not partake in fish from the Fukushima area. Nobody should have the right to conceal origin information about food items in general, particularly not when food may contain things that are potentially impactful to a person's health.

40 μSv might be a "Safe" exposure over time; but that doesn't mean it's completely without health impacts. People are within their rights to avoid that extra dose if they feel the risk is unnecessary; no matter how small that risk may be.