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TL;DR "The government is considering releasing water in small quantities at a time into the Pacific off Fukushima Prefecture over a period of about 30 years, a
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
TL;DR
"The government is considering releasing water in small quantities at a time into the Pacific off Fukushima Prefecture over a period of about 30 years, after diluting the concentration of tritium to about one-fortieth of the maximum set out by national standards."
- kijin 6y ago30 years from now, we might have to spend a lot of money harvesting all that tritium back out of the ocean to feed our fusion reactors.
- pletnes 6y agoTritium’s half life is \approx 12 years.
- throwawayboise 6y agoIt's also a low-energy beta emitter, not dangerous externally, and has a short biological half-life in the human body (days), so it there is not a long term bioaccumulation risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
- maxnoe 6y agoFusion reactors will create their tritium from Lithium. Tritiums half life is just to short.
- junon 6y agoAnd yet we're left with this incredibly outrage-inducing headline that only a small fraction of readers will look further into.
- dang 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26741539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26741539