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You can read up on it, the release of that water is essentially harmless. Media is drumming up the hysteria, because it generates clicks. Scientists say it's fine.
Dilution is the solution. >

Just sell or sell to Nestle >

This shouldn’t even be an event, this is non-news to anyone who is familiar at all with this situation. >

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TOKYO-The Japanese government is pushing ahead with its plan to release 1.3 million tons of radioactive water from the defunct Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Ever since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima power plant, crews have continuously pumped water through the wrecked reactors to cool the nuclear fuel, much of which melted.
The water will be discharged at a single point for decades, so tritium, which can be bound into animal and plant tissue, and other radioactive isotopes may still accumulate in marine organisms and work their way up the food chain to fish and humans.


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Good, dilution is the best way to handle this water. >

Unless you believe in homeopathy. If so, Godzilla is coming. >

I guess they don't watch their own movies >

I'm very excited for giant mechas fighting giant radioactive monsters >

Think I have that on my Bingo card >

The best godzilla movies started that way. >

5 headed fish and chips coming up. >

This sub hates dumping waste into the ocean. Unless it's radioactive, in which case it's probably actually a good thing. 
The nuclear PR bots have owned this sub for over a decade. >

You are just dumb and uninformed, and people downvote you just like they would downvote someone believing the earth is flat >

nooo Japanese are so nice they clean stadium after every game >

This is literally the most realistic way to deal with it. >

What The hell is the point of these global  summits and committees if this just skates on through? Ridiculous. >

This is them doing the right thing. They pumped up radioactive water from a disaster area removed 99.9% of the radioactive material from it and now they are dumping it in the ocean so the cleaning facility have room to clean more water. >

I'm assuming Man's hubris and Murphy's law are gonna meet in the middle at some point. My bad. >

Awful! >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)


TOKYO-The Japanese government is pushing ahead with its plan to release 1.3 million tons of radioactive water from the defunct Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Ever since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima power plant, crews have continuously pumped water through the wrecked reactors to cool the nuclear fuel, much of which melted.
The water will be discharged at a single point for decades, so tritium, which can be bound into animal and plant tissue, and other radioactive isotopes may still accumulate in marine organisms and work their way up the food chain to fish and humans.


Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: water^#1 Tritium^#2 marine^#3 TEPCO^#4 through^#5 >


TEPCO plans to dilute the waste with massive amounts of seawater to reduce tritium levels below regulatory standards for drinking water before dumping it into the ocean through a pipe extending 1 kilometer offshore.

Diluted to within drinking water standards, then dumped far offshore.  Um, I think this is going to be fine guys.
But I do wonder, is it just a kilometer out and then on the surface?  It would seem best to pipe it down to a depth far below most marine life and let it dilute further down there. >

Can someone actually build a pipe that goes that deep? >

We create a lot of waste and no on were to put it.  
It's expensive, but lets sling shot the shit into space (hoping the rockets don't blow up before they pass the Karman Line). >

You know of the Karman line, but don't know that that would be impossible to do? Our lifting ability is just orders of magnitude too lacking. >

Space elevator, then >

Barrel it and store it miles deep in bedrock like other nuclear waste. Japan screwed up, this is just part of that price. >

Barrel literal millions of gallons of waste water? That would cause more environmental damage just to produce the barrels