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This is total non-issue, and like dihydrogen monoxide only demonstrates how scientifically illiterate most people are.
Releasing the waste water into the ocean simply reduces the concentration of tritium, which is what's emitting the radiation. And since radiation poisoning depends on exposure to high concentrations, this release of waste water is simply diluting the tritium to a level that makes it pretty much harmless.
This release of radioactive waste water into the ocean is the equivalent of putting a teaspoon of sulfuric acid into a glass of water and then pouring that glass into an Olympic sized swimming pool. >

Damn >

About time... It's tritium folks. Occurs naturally when sun rays interact water molecules, so there is plenty in the ocean already. Though in very very low concentration. But Pacific ocean is pretty big, so a tad more won't be noticed. >

Tell that to Aquaman >

Honestly, it’s a pretty insignificant amount. While not great, chances are you won’t even notice if you’re looking for it with the dilution that will happen. >

The water is also barely radioactive. It's not like this is highly toxic water or anything >

Clickbait by the BBC, one of the oldest, venerated institutions of journalism. These are dark times. >

With how they insist on treating the lives of the royal family as front page news, the BBC is basically just a gossip tabloid at this point. >

People tend to see this stuff and imagine cartoonistly evil people dumping full barrels of glowing green water into the ocean. >

It's not really a big deal. You'd think highly radioactive water would be bad environmentally, but it would be diluted immediately due to the immensity of the ocean.
In comparison, the world's hydrosphere has a mass of 1.4 x 10^18 tonnes. It would be like throwing a rock into a black hole. >

It definitely sounds really bad though. >

Oh it does. I was a skeptic before until I heard the process and if you take into the account that the ocean is extremely huge, the environmental impact is inconsequentially less than leaving where it is. >

I imagine all the garbage and micro plastics floating in the ocean are a bigger threat to the environment. >

Homeopathic folks in shambles…the more they dilute the isotopes the stronger they become. >

As the saying goes in nuclear industry “The solution to pollution is dilution”. It is the best way forward. >

can i get a pic of ppl swimming in it before its dumped to confirm safeness? >

Tritium is super expensive and hard to come by. If that’s all there is in it, why not sell it to a scientist who can use it?? >

Fucking fear mongering with nuclear energy.
The title could just as much say that Japan is releasing heavy water that occurs naturally on the ocean.
A million tons of water with a little more tritium then normal in the damn pacific ocean is like a drop of rat poison dropped on a entire reservoir. Sure it is better not to, but wont happen shit in that concentration >

See, the guys that throw old car batteries into the ocean were right all along! >

How much water are we talking about because if they can tank it up they and ship it to space to the sun >

Not only is that entirely unfeasible with the amounts we’re talking about, but it would also straight up cause more environmental damage than just releasing the water. Rocket launches especially orbital or extra orbital launches are incredibly damaging to the atmosphere. The water isn’t highly radioactive. The levels are low enough that you could fairly safely swim in it at this point. Releasing it into the ocean will only make it less dangerous. That will allow it to further dilute and considering the radioactive element in the water is tritium which already naturally occurs in the ocean and is broken down over time by natural processes in said ocean there’s literally nothing to worry about here. Plenty of thought and research has been put into this decision, as an island nation Japan is highly dependent on the health of local waterways. They aren’t going to intentionally do something that would cause significant harm to those waters. >

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