This is literally an episode of the Simpsons.
And as long as the water is not actively radioactive, I am more worried about temperature and pH than anything else
But, if he spits out the fish like Mr. Burns, we’ll have a laugh that will last for decades.
I mean, you can’t top George H. W. Bush vomiting into the lap of the Japanese PM. Japan can take it.
I don’t remember that one… Is there a picture, article or video?
Absolutely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_KVL-wtpgg
It is actively radioactive, but it dilutes fast and decays in a reasonable time. Some of the hydrogen in the water is tritium because of neutron activation. It doesn’t really bioaccumulate.
Holy crap. This is how I find out that Rahm Emanuel is the US Ambassador to Japan? How is he possibly qualified for that job?
It’s a cushy ambassadorship to an ally. A dog could do the job.
Of course a dog could eat some fish.
Similarly, the former mayor of Milwaukee is now the ambassador to Luxembourg. He didn’t get that because he was qualified, he got it because he did favors for people in high places and it gets him paid to do literally nothing.
Ugh I wish you were wrong.
I didn’t read the article, just saw the picture in the post and thought "that dude looks a lot like Rahm Emanuel. " TIL.
Lol yup! I only read the article because I saw his face and was like “what is Rahm Emanuel doing as the thumbnail for a story about Japan??”
Now I want to see Rahm go to a maid cafe
Freakonomics Radio did a pretty great interview with him. It’s enlightening.
is Biden trying to get rid of Obama’s pals?
find out from your nearest kookie-conspiracy channel.
Just tritium. Nothing too major about it and it doesn’t stick around compared to fission products. Good candidate for dumping into the ocean.
Didn’t know Rahm went from mayor of Chicago to Ambassador to Japan.
Something’s fishy about Rahm.
Ambassador: Joke’s on them, I’m already dead on the inside.
Straight out of the Obama playbook
“This fish I’m about to eat is totally from the area where the radioactive water was dumped and not something we imported from a clean environment.”
Good. We’re going to feed him a bunch of Plymouth oysters if they ever dump the nuclear water from the pilgrim power plant in Cape cod Bay too.
In 1990, as the BSE (‘mad cow disease’) crisis in the UK was unfolding and shortly after scientists had found proof that the disease could indeed cross species, the Agriculture Secretary John Gummer went on national TV to try to force his four-year-old daughter to eat a beef burger for the cameras, to convince the public to keep eating British beef.
Several hundred people ended up dying from CJD (the human variant caused by eating infected beef). It remains one of the most widely derided photo ops in British political history.
Right but that isn’t really comparable. Radiation has been studied for over a century while prions were a total unknown at the time.
Just because one person does one dumb thing on camera doesn’t mean that everyone facing a camera does dumb things.
Right, I’m not suggesting otherwise. I’m just observing that, for someone who remembers that time, seeing a politician eating for the cameras to prove some food is safe brings to mind this very specific unfortunate example.
For me it brought to mind Thomas Midgley, who did a public stunt where he poured petrol lead additive over his hands and gave himself lead poisoning twice.
Yikes that is pretty diabolical. Using children to prove a point is horrible.
I mean, at least use someone elses children.
…like Edward Jenner did with the smallpox vaccine.
