Serious The Philippines Marine Science Institute has detected elevated levels of radioactive iodine-129 in seawater samples from the West Philippine Sea

[Clam]

 

[Smokinrav]

Fukushima? Not that far away.

*edit* From Google AI
Iodine-129 (\({}^{129}\)I) has an extremely long half-life, typically cited as around 15.7 to 16.7 million years, with a widely accepted value of about 16.1 million years, making it a long-lived radionuclide of concern for environmental management, especially from nuclear activities like weapons testing and fuel reprocessing

*edit2* from op's link
"While iodine-129 is radioactive, the researchers said its current levels in the WPS pose no threat to human health or the environment."

Total non story

 

[Sundaylsx]

Wouldn't that be from the ship that was torpedoed that was on its way to north korea from russia that had nuclear stuff on it "im not 100% sure its true, I just heard about this incident the other day"

 

[Ramres]

Fukushima? Not that far away.

*edit* From Google AI
Iodine-129 (\({}^{129}\)I) has an extremely long half-life, typically cited as around 15.7 to 16.7 million years, with a widely accepted value of about 16.1 million years, making it a long-lived radionuclide of concern for environmental management, especially from nuclear activities like weapons testing and fuel reprocessing

*edit2* from op's link
"While iodine-129 is radioactive, the researchers said its current levels in the WPS pose no threat to human health or the environment."

Total non story

Does say it's likely getting fed by the yellow river. Makes sense. China has a reputation of freely dumping a heap load of stuff into their own rivers, poisoning villagers all the time. This is why production costs and China have always been hard to beat. They don't dispose of waste properly nor have the infrastructure to do so. And it saves some sweet, sweet dogshit currency to just dissapear all production waste into every surrounding body of water.

Philippines has got to feel bad about this one. Just a few years ago they threatened to poison their oceans if they retaliate against the illegal Chinese fishing boats. Only, they're poisoned anyways. Thanks, radioactive bugman, very cool.

 

[1337 h4x0r m0f0]

Russians and chinks are the only ones testing nuclear weapons freely 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[that613guy]

They traced isotopes from fukushima on the shores of California months after the meltdown. That was years ago. From the trash islands in each ocean, to the micro plastics, to the radiation and general waste that is dumped into the ocean... we fucked up. Humans are fleas on a dog.