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Fukushima fish with 180 times legal limit of radioactive cesium fuels water release fears
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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We probably should measure around France too, they seem to release 500 times the amount of water to the sea https://www.cn.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100194021.pdf
Is the article really talking about 44 fish?
There is a difference between contaminated water, like in Fukushima, and regular non-contaminated cooling water. There should be no radioactive contaminants in the water that the French nuclear power plants release.
Well actually cooling water is bombarded with neutrons, which transforms hydrogen atoms into deuterium and radioactive tritium. It's just generally regarded as harmless (probably because there's no good way to test for bioaccumulation.)