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Space to build tanks to store radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is running out. Is releasing the water, after it has been treated, into the sea, which the government wants to do, the best option to deal with the problem?
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Mickelicious
What a silly poll. How is a lay person to know what is the best possible option?
I can certainly opine and emote, but haven't we had enough of that recently?
runner3
Build more tanks. The solution to radioactive pollution is "not" dilution.
BertieWooster
They could always dump it off the coast of Somalia. That's been a popular dumping spot for waste for years:
https://www.voanews.com/archive/waste-dumping-somali-coast-may-have-links-mafia-somali-warlords
jeancolmar
Presuming that the Tepco water will be safe enough to dump in sea, it should be safe enough to drink and use for agriculture.
robert maes
It is not only madness but also the admission of not having a clue what to do, not only with the cooling water but with the entire decommission situation.
As long as Japan puts imaginary " saving face " before a workable solution and calls on all the great minds in the nuclear industry AND more importantly listens to them, not only pay them for an opinion later to be ignored, we are in trouble. We, being planet earth and anything on it
Bjorn Tomention
Its cold water right ? Why cant they just keep recycling it through the system like a real cooling system why does it have to be fresh water all the time?
You know like a cars radiator, once the water has cooled why not reuse it?
TrevorPeace
I've read, here on JT and elsewhere, that scientists who know the topic much better than any of us have said there is no problem releasing the water. Activists and people without knowledge (but lots of fear) are the ones sowing doubt. But, that's just my opinion and it doesn't really count. Just like those opinions of many posters, here.
Alex
If the government can verify that indeed the water poses no danger from an objective source then yes, otherwise no.
kyushubill
And to think we are to take that question seriously.
Yes please release radioactive water into the ocean please.
SMH
englisc aspyrgend
Sorry to worry you, but sea water is already radioactive.
Provided and only provided they carry out further filtering to remove the admited other radioactive elements they failed to remove the first time arround, and it is diluted and not all dumped in the same place (the Pacific is a BIG ocean) then the impact will not even be measurable against the extant natural background radiation.
Please remember folks, we live on a radioactive planet. Were it not we wouldn't be here to write posts!
Do the hustle
They’ve had ten years to come up with an alternative, but have done nothing. There is still another 10 square kilometers around the plant that is uninhabitable that could easily be used to store the water.
scientists around the world have been able to remove tritium from water. Japan should be researching and developing ways to so. That would eliminate having to dump millions of tons of contaminated water into the ocean.
A point that gets overlooked in all these articles about pumping this water into the ocean is, there was a report last year stating that a lot of this water hadn’t been properly filtered and still contains many other more dangerous isotopes. This is something that should be looked into thoroughly before any decision is made.
Pukey2
So, nearly ten years on, has anyone been held accountable for this man-made disaster?
englisc aspyrgend
Do the hustle, I would be most interested in a link to the paper detailing the successful removal of Tritium as I have not come across it. There is also the real world difficulty of taking experimental work out of the lab and scaling it up. The reports of other dangerous isotopes remaining in the filtered water is why I said “provided and only provided they carry out further filtering”.
YuriOtani
What about drilling a deep hole in the ground and put it there? like the Americans do fracking wastewater.
commanteer
That's already their plan for the Japanese economy. Maybe no room left for waste water.
Do the hustle
Yeah, sure! Here you are: Google it!
englisc aspyrgend
Do the hustle, how very rude.
TARA TAN KITAOKA
Never into the sea.