I am no Fukushima apologist but that is a click-baity headline.
> The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute... too low to pose a health concern... Cesium-137 levels some 3,000-times higher than those found in the Bering Sea are considered safe for human consumption under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards, officials said.
The standard for science articles on HN should involve significant concentrations of [bad thing], not just trace amounts. See: Enrico Fermi's "Caesar's last breath" exercise.[1]
For this to be significant there should be something disputing the EPA standards (which may very well be too lenient). But there's no such dispute mentioned in the report. It's just, "contaminants were found."
> The newly detected Fukushima radiation was minute... too low to pose a health concern... Cesium-137 levels some 3,000-times higher than those found in the Bering Sea are considered safe for human consumption under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standards, officials said.
The standard for science articles on HN should involve significant concentrations of [bad thing], not just trace amounts. See: Enrico Fermi's "Caesar's last breath" exercise.[1]
For this to be significant there should be something disputing the EPA standards (which may very well be too lenient). But there's no such dispute mentioned in the report. It's just, "contaminants were found."
[1] http://www.hk-phy.org/articles/caesar/caesar_e.html