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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Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, Industry official website has a pretty decent report on this:
https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/decommissioning/qa.html
Bioremdiation. Build large sheds around Fukushima, collect paper and other wood wastes from around the country, send to fukshima on barges, shred, spread, innoculate w Fungi, grow, harvest dry and sequester. (Lighting and heating costs would be low!)
Employment for the Japanese for decades if not longer. (Mushroom side dish for Fugu and Fukashima wild boar!)
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/using-fungi-remediate-radiation-fukushima
Since they’re NOT releasing all the ‘hot’ waste - when will the next release happen? And the one after that.. and the one after that...
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Half life of tritium (the main contamination isotope) is only 12.3 years.
It will all go away naturally. Almost half has already decayed.
Well with the Pacific Ocean current stream it should reach the coast of California in about six months don’t eat the fish.
Thanks RACPE, great summary.
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