Japan expected to announce it will release radioactive water from crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into ocean

OregonLive ^ | 10/19/2020 | Douglas Perry

[Rio]

The Japanese government is planning on releasing millions of gallons of contaminated water into the ocean starting in 2022, according to international news reports.

“170 tons of new radioactive wastewater is generated each day [at Fukushima] and is stored in 1,000 specially designed tanks,” Forbes reports.

The government would begin to release the contaminated water into the ocean when the tanks being used to store it reach capacity. The final decision about whether or not to implement the plan is expected to be announced by November. The water is being treated to “reduce radioactivity,

[Rio]

Not good. Look at Satellite images of Fukushima. They just kept building more tanks for radioactive water. I guess the tanks must be full and no room to build more.

[Rio]

I think that I failed to click the EXCERPT button. More details at the source.

[Secret Agent Man]

you mean more than they have normally been letting into the ocean....

[Rio]

treated to “reduce radioactivity

How does that work? By diluting it in seawater?

[Steely Tom]

Imagine if Trump announced the United States was going to do this.

Greta Thunberg would go nonlinear.

[JonPreston]

Cue up the three eyed fish 🐟 from the Simpsons.

[laplata]

Lmao!

[servantboy777]

For this reason, I do not support nuclear power.

[CIB-173RDABN]

In the 1950s we were testing nuclear weapons on islands in the Pacific. I am pretty sure some of that radiation got into the ocean...are we all dead yet.

The only side effect was mutation of some species into Godzilla. /s

[TexasGator]

“How does that work? By diluting it in seawater?”

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The release of more than a million tonnes of water, which has been filtered to reduce radioactivity, would start in 2022 at the earliest, according to Japanese media outlets including national dailies the Nikkei and the Yomiuri Shimbun.

The water would be diluted inside the plant before release so it is 40 times less concentrated, the Yomiuri Shimbun said, with the whole process taking 30 years.

[Sacajaweau]

Guess where that drifts...Plenty of debris from Japan on our shores. I guess think of the fish contamination.

[Fishtalk]

It will probably be ok if released a little at a time.

Humans can’t destroy the earth...the earth will always survive.

[Rio]

[TexasGator]

“For this reason, I do not support nuclear power.”

What reason?

[Steely Tom]

“170 tons of new radioactive wastewater is generated each day [at Fukushima] and is stored in 1,000 specially designed tanks,” Forbes reports.

Yeah, they're specially designed with valves to let their contents out into the ocean.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yikes!

[DannyTN]

[plain talk]

They do that and THIS is what they'll get.

[dfwgator]

History shows again and again how Nature points out the folly of Man.

[Steely Tom]

You want Godzilla? This is how you get Godzilla!