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> I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn't made more news. Why? It seems relatively safe, and
by alex_young 9y ago
> I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn't made more news.
Why? It seems relatively safe, and there doesn't seem to be much else to do with it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/13/is-it-safe-to-dump-fukushima-waste-into-the-sea https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
- ac29 9y agoQuick summary: They are putting a little over 50mL of a weakly radioactive, fast decaying isotope into the ocean. It will be undetectable within a few years. Natural tritium production (from cosmic rays) occurs at at a rate 3 orders of magnitude higher [0] than is occurring at Fukushima [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Cosmic_rays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Cosmic_rays [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Fukushima_Daiichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Fukushima_Daiichi