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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In before Godzirra......
I understand that right there it it pretty bad, but people still live there.
Can we transition to thorium already? When those plants lose power they stop. They don’t go “nuclear”.
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.
“The twin disasters killed nearly 20,000 people...”
As far as I can tell, only one worker so far has died due to the accident. In 2016. He worked at the plant until 2015. one article said that a bunch of people were evacuated from a hospital near the reactor. 40 of those people have since died. The article did not say how or when or why those people died!
So, a gallon of water weighs about 8 lbs so if they’re dumping 1.25 million tons, that equates roughly to to 312 million gallons. I think describing it in tons is misleading and the gallon number lets people really know how much water they’re planning on dumping. They’ve got plenty of unused real estate, build more tanks (out of stainless) and let the radiation cool down.
And all I can think about is that mining trouble down in south america... Where they were stuck there for a while. This one fella refused to come out of the mine because his “wife” and “girlfreind” were both waiting. I saw the pictures. UGH! If that is all you have to come out of that abyss... then what is the point?
Dilution is the solution to the pollution...
Disposing of low level waste like this is probably the best and safest option.
[[Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea]]
Phew- i was afraid they would dump it on land where someone could step in it
Statistically, more people will drown in the released water than will be poisoned by it.
Exactly. I don’t think I will be dining on imported sushi for a while.
The left has hysterically exaggerated dangers of radioactive chemical elements for a very long time. Such elements that decay quickly are already weak. Elements that decay more slowly are virtually harmless unless consumed. The more slowly decaying elements decay much faster in fish, and the next generation of fish are fine.
Run the water through an ion exchange process. There are zeolites specific to elements like cesium. Send the spent resin to be mixed with borosilicate glass and melted, then placed in steel casks. Same process used at the West Valley Demonstration Project.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_Demonstration_Project
This is the same technology used by the French nuclear industry for decades.
I worked on this project.
Strontium 90 and Cesium 137 are still nasty with half lives around 29 years.
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