[LucyT]

Now, 10 years after the disaster, TEPCO is running out of room to store the wastewater. 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.

[LucyT]

[GOP Poet]

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[BenLurkin]

[neodad]

In before Godzirra......

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What happened to the sea life around the Bikini Atoll, etc. after all of the nuclear testing?

I understand that right there it it pretty bad, but people still live there.

[21twelve]

“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!

[krogers58]

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.

[rottndog]

Dilution is the solution to the pollution...

Disposing of low level waste like this is probably the best and safest option.

[Bob434]

[[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

[Born to Conserve]

Statistically, more people will drown in the released water than will be poisoned by it.

[familyop]

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.

[Go Gordon]

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.

[mewzilla]

Okay, who’s got the Oxygen Destroyer?!

[Ikeon]

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.

[Red Badger]

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

[whitney69]

“...into the Pacific Ocean...”

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

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[RitchieAprile]

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

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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

[Vaduz]

Well with the Pacific Ocean current stream it should reach the coast of California in about six months don’t eat the fish.