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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Meanwhile Hiroshima and Nagasaki are doing ok.
The solution, to pollution, is dilution.
Okay, who’s got the Oxygen Destroyer?!
Would this be exempt from the Kyoto Protocol /s
Uh, about 99.9% died of the earthquake and tsunami.
Mean while in californamexico, “dude your glowing man”! cool!
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.
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.
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.
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.
A drop in the ocean.......................
The resident population of the atoll is currently 4–6 caretaker...................
Fauci is also in charge of the nuclear regulatory administration?
“...into the Pacific Ocean...”
We’ve been doing this at Hanford for years. That’s their idea of a cleanup.
wy69
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.
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.
Volume of Pacific Ocean - roughly 170 million cubic miles.
300 million gallons works out to not quite two gallons PER CUBIC MILE!
Two gallons per cubic mile.
Being Heavy Water, it should sink!......................
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