Japan to release nuclear wastewater into ocean

Canonfan · 13-04-2021 11:09am #1

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1381781703711199237?s=20

Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
The US government expressed its support.

So next time when US and Japan wanna talk about environment : go feck yourself!

ohnonotgmail · 13-04-2021 11:13am

Oh no, not again

astrofool · 13-04-2021 11:18am

The release of water is going to happen over decades and is meant to start in 2 years time, issue is they're unable to filter out Tritium, which has low penetrating power compared to other radioactive elements, it can't pierce human skin, but could find it's way into the food chain. The release is similar to other nuclear plants, but at a much higher volume.

The older reactor types will hopefully start getting turned off and replaced with Gen3+ plants over the next couple of decades.

WrenBoy · 13-04-2021 11:24am

We'd better increase our Carbon Tax.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-04-2021 11:25am

Canonfan wrote: »

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1381781703711199237?s=20

Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
The US government expressed its support.

So next time when US and Japan wanna talk about environment : go feck yourself!

What do you think they should do with it?

Milanative · 13-04-2021 11:27am

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

What do you think they should do with it?

don't bother asking they never have an answer

seamus · 13-04-2021 11:27am

The environmental impact of this is unimaginably small. Like burying a cow carcass in the Sahara Desert, small.

This is one of the big issues with a lot of environmental groups; they really can't see the wood for the trees and waste time fighting things which don't really have any grand impact.

timmyntc · 13-04-2021 11:30am

There is background radiation in the ocean anyways, and since this has been filtered of most of the radioactive material, it wont have a huge affect on anything really.

13-04-2021 11:33am

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

What do you think they should do with it?

sell it to the Chinese

Canonfan · 13-04-2021 11:53am

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

What do you think they should do with it?

Well, if they think it's safe to release into the ocean, they can drink or put into industrial use.

timmyntc · 13-04-2021 11:54am

Canonfan wrote: »

Well, if they think it's safe to release into the ocean, they can drink or put into industrial use.

Instead of discharging treated wastewater into the ocean, why dont we just drink it or use it industrially?

Canonfan · 13-04-2021 11:56am

seamus wrote: »

The environmental impact of this is unimaginably small. Like burying a cow carcass in the Sahara Desert, small.

This is one of the big issues with a lot of environmental groups; they really can't see the wood for the trees and waste time fighting things which don't really have any grand impact.

It doesn't matter big impact or small, the point is if other country did the same, the attitude of US government might be different.

Canonfan · 13-04-2021 12:00pm

timmyntc wrote: »

Instead of discharging treated wastewater into the ocean, why dont we just drink it or use it industrially?

I don't have a problem with treated wastwater, as long as it's not NUCLEAR ****, you can tell me it's safe but I don't care. I'm sure there are people like me.

timmyntc · 13-04-2021 12:06pm

Canonfan wrote: »

I don't have a problem with treated wastwater, as long as it's not NUCLEAR ****, you can tell me it's safe but I don't care. I'm sure there are people like me.

You have no idea what nuclear is do you?

The Earths ocean is naturally radioactive, albeit at very low concentrations.
Deuterium is abundant in our ocean and is radioactive
A very low concentration of tritium released into the worlds oceans is a non-event.

Canonfan · 13-04-2021 12:12pm

timmyntc wrote: »

You have no idea what nuclear is do you?

The Earths ocean is naturally radioactive, albeit at very low concentrations.
Deuterium is abundant in our ocean and is radioactive
A very low concentration of tritium released into the worlds oceans is a non-event.

Sure I have no idea what nuclear is, if it's non-event no need for the likes of BBC and NY Times to report then.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-04-2021 12:18pm

Canonfan wrote: »

I don't have a problem with treated wastwater, as long as it's not NUCLEAR ****, you can tell me it's safe but I don't care. I'm sure there are people like me.

I'm.sure there are others like you

There are also people who believe the earth is flat and nothing will convince them they are wrong either.

biko · 13-04-2021 12:20pm

To keep the three damaged reactor cores from melting, cooling water is pumped through them continuously.

The water is then sent through a powerful filtration system that is able to remove all of the radioactive material except for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that experts say is not harmful to human health in small doses.

There are now about 1.25 million tons of wastewater stored in more than 1,000 tanks at the plant site. The water continues to accumulate at a rate of about 170 tons a day, and releasing all of it is expected to take decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ__2d57zgY

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/world/asia/japan-fukushima-wastewater-ocean.html

ThewhiteJesus · 13-04-2021 12:29pm

Is it really a surprise, they still hunt and kill whales regardless of law

Calahonda52 · 13-04-2021 12:32pm

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Is it really a surprise, they still hunt and kill whales regardless of law

They now have a Green Jacket to boot:D

The good thing about it is that we are being told, unlike here when tonnes of turds get pumped into a blue flag beach

timmyntc · 13-04-2021 12:34pm

Calahonda52 wrote: »

They now have a Green Jacket to boot:D

The good thing about it is that we are being told, unlike here when tonnes of turds get pumped into a blue flag beach

The tonnes of raw sewage we pump into bays has a far more negative impact than the millions of tonnes of treated "radioactive" water the japanese are releasing.

bmwfan · 13-04-2021 12:35pm

jimmycrackcorm · 13-04-2021 12:35pm

Canonfan wrote:

Well, if they think it's safe to release into the ocean, they can drink or put into industrial use.

Have you any idea how much easier there is in the oceans?

Canonfan wrote:

I don't have a problem with treated wastwater, as long as it's not NUCLEAR ****, you can tell me it's safe but I don't care. I'm sure there are people like me.

If you don't care then your opinion hardly matters then.