What options does Japan have for releasing radioactive wastewater? Is diluting it and releasing into the Pacific ocean the best option?
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They could expand the waste water tank complex and keep storing them.
They chose not to because of budget and political reasons.
It’s still debatable if the wastewater is safe enough. US and Japan largely confident that it’s harmless, anyone else in Asia is very doubtful.
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To elaborate a little, the water that will be released are supposed to be quite safe. They will filter everything other than tritium and carbon isotope. And water it down further to make it harmless.
Problem is that you have to take word from them and just trust their publication.
I believe it will be harmless in the end because there was third party involved in investigations. But at the same time, Japanese government is not very good at transparency and has bad track record of tucking issues away under the rug.
So the skepticism goes down to three main reason:
1. Trust issue on Japanese gov
2. Irrational fear on nuclear thing
3. Politically motivated nationalism
Third is very popular strategy in Asian populist politicians.
All in all, I believe discharging the water will be harmless IF they do it the way they said they will, and I don’t know if it’s the best way but it’s certainly good enough way.
Hey, check how much tritium France release from their reprocessing plant. Fukushima is less of a problem actually.
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