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Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea
Live Science ^ | April 13, 2021 | Brandon Specktor

Posted on 04/15/2021 9:54:13 PM PDT by LucyT

Japan's government announced on Tuesday (April 13) that it will dump more than a million tons of contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, beginning in two years.

Roughly 1.25 million tons (1.13 million metric tons) of water have accumulated around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan since 2011, after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated the region.

The twin disasters killed nearly 20,000 people, according to NPR, and caused meltdowns in three of the plant's six reactors, triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; ocean; pacific; radioactive; wastewater
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To: familyop

Meanwhile Hiroshima and Nagasaki are doing ok.


21 posted on 04/16/2021 1:09:22 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: LucyT
The disposal plan, which was approved in a government cabinet meeting on Tuesday, will see the wastewater gradually discharged into the Pacific Ocean, most likely over the course of several decades.

The solution, to pollution, is dilution.

22 posted on 04/16/2021 3:09:40 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: LucyT

Okay, who’s got the Oxygen Destroyer?!


23 posted on 04/16/2021 3:12:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Would this be exempt from the Kyoto Protocol /s


24 posted on 04/16/2021 3:26:22 AM PDT by deek69
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To: 21twelve

Uh, about 99.9% died of the earthquake and tsunami.


25 posted on 04/16/2021 3:28:03 AM PDT by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: rottndog

Mean while in californamexico, “dude your glowing man”! cool!


26 posted on 04/16/2021 3:30:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Fred Hayek

The problem is Tritium. thats where the radioactivity in the release water is coming from. As a hydrogen isotope you can’t separate it from sea water.

BUT.

They are releasing a million tons. In the Pacific ocean the dilution will result in 1 part per
660,000,000,000.


27 posted on 04/16/2021 3:30:57 AM PDT by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: LucyT
Whats the big deal, nuke plants have been dumping rad waste into your local waters since rad waste was invented.

Any rad chemtech knows " dilution is the solution" to get it down to very low levels per gallon.. .

Look at a map of nuclear power plants around the world. Most of them are near a large body of water and I bet they have been dumping rad waste into it forever.

Its the dirty little secret nuke power companys don't want you to know... Btdt.

THE TRUTH WON'T SET YOU FREE, IT WOULD SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF YOU.

28 posted on 04/16/2021 3:32:13 AM PDT by Ikeon (The difference between humans and animals is.. animals would never follow the dumbest one. )
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29 posted on 04/16/2021 3:42:25 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The sea life around Bikini atoll have recovered remarkably well, including robust corals. And just for the record, only one person, a technician I believe, died from radiation at Fukushima. Tsunami yes; and many died from a precipitous and reckless evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes.


30 posted on 04/16/2021 3:52:15 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative.)
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To: Ikeon

The reason they are located near water is for cooling water. Same would go for a fossil fuel power plant. This is not the cooling water in the reactor, that requires a lot of purification and is recycled. Not just for reducing scaling(as is a fossil fueled plant) but also reduce neutron activation products and reactor poisons. The steam you see from cooling towers is just plain water vapor.


31 posted on 04/16/2021 4:42:01 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: LucyT

A drop in the ocean.......................


32 posted on 04/16/2021 5:28:19 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The resident population of the atoll is currently 4–6 caretaker...................


33 posted on 04/16/2021 5:33:03 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: jz638
Don't worry, I'm sure there's a man in a white lab coat giving a press conference right now saying there's no need to be concerned.

Fauci is also in charge of the nuclear regulatory administration?

34 posted on 04/16/2021 5:54:16 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: LucyT

“...into the Pacific Ocean...”

We’ve been doing this at Hanford for years. That’s their idea of a cleanup.

wy69


35 posted on 04/16/2021 5:57:17 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Fred Hayek; SunkenCiv; All; Kaslin; Red Badger

This is a (deliberately) “scary topic” propaganda piece. The weights of water are exaggerated by using tons, as if the dilute tritium contaminated water were solid high level waste.

Tritium has a short half life, after 10 years it already had decayed down! If the rest of the water is released “over decades” only a vanishingly small amount of the original will be left.

Tritium is a hydrogen isotope, it can’t be filtered or chemically separated from the ordinary hydrogen in the water. If, for example, 2 tons of tritium were originally in the water, all of these 1.25 “million tons” of frightenly “contaminated tons of water” has now decayed to less than one ton of tritium. Tritium is a weak emitter anyway, the 1.25 million tons of regular water shields the radioactive ones very well. The 250 trillions of regular salt water will shield even better.


36 posted on 04/16/2021 6:09:12 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: krogers58

The water being dumped is not even a drop in the bucket it is so tiny relative to the ocean. Reporting it in tons, not 312 million gallons or 957 acre feet, is misleading. The solution to pollution is dilution.


37 posted on 04/16/2021 6:26:36 AM PDT by WLusvardi (Drudge Fudges)
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To: krogers58

Volume of Pacific Ocean - roughly 170 million cubic miles.

300 million gallons works out to not quite two gallons PER CUBIC MILE!


38 posted on 04/16/2021 6:36:39 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Kozak

Two gallons per cubic mile.


39 posted on 04/16/2021 6:37:25 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Being Heavy Water, it should sink!......................


40 posted on 04/16/2021 6:39:01 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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