No detectable amount of tritium has been found in fish samples taken from waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, where the discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea began a month ago, the government said Monday.

Tritium was not detected in the latest sample of two olive flounders caught Sunday, the Fisheries Agency said on its website. The agency has provided almost daily updates since the start of the water release, in a bid to dispel harmful rumors both domestically and internationally about its environmental impact.

The results of the first collected samples were published Aug. 9, before the discharge of treated water from the complex commenced on Aug. 24. The water had been used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the plant but has undergone a treatment process that removes most radionuclides except tritium.

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    Woah, it’s almost like the universe didn’t give us easily accessible energy for doing nothing.

    Wow. Let me know when oil doesn’t need to be extracted, refined, and doesn’t produce waste.

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      Hell, coal literally contains trace uranium, and its waste products aren’t accounted as “radioactive waste” even though they are.

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        The only reason we burn any coal in the US is bc of politics and West Virgina. There’s no defending coal use at any level.