Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to shut down the facility that had reactor meltdowns 12 years ago.

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    611 months ago

    Good! About damn time. Tritium isn’t dangerous when diluted in the ocean, which contains 4.5 BILLION TONS of uranium naturally.