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.

  • Enigma
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    1 year ago
    1. Holy shit, it’s been 12 years already? 2010-2020 was like a fever dream.

    2. What are the alternatives?

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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    In WWII the US processed Ocean water to get the same radioactive components, and now Japan wants to put them back.

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    1 year ago

    This seems like Godzilla’s origin story. Should be fun.