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Japan set to release Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean.


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2020 Oct 19, 3:21am   579 views  10 comments

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Release to occur after 2022 despite reputational worries from fishing industry.

TOKYO -- Japan is set to officially decide to release treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean amid opposition from a fishing industry worried about its reputation.

Keeping water at the site, where the devastating tsunami in 2011 led to three meltdowns, could affect decommissioning. The government's decision about the disposal of the water, which could come this month, is expected to speed the decommissioning work.

The release would occur after 2022, following the construction of facilities and the creation of regulatory procedures.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato talked with the chairman of the Japan Fisheries Cooperatives Zengyoren on Thursday about the water. Zengyoren, a fishing industry lobby, opposed the release.

Kato told reporters that a "decision on the treated water should be made quickly to avoid delays in decommissioning."

The plant is managed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Since the meltdowns, groundwater and rain have been entering the site. As of fiscal 2019, an additional 180 tons of water was being contaminated every day by the high concentration of radioactive substances.

Tepco removes major radioactive substances from the water, which is then stored at the site. As of Sept. 17, there were 1.23 million tons of treated water in about 1,000 tanks.

Tepco is planning to secure tanks for storing 1.37 million tons this fiscal year but says the tanks could be full by October 2022. If the number of tanks continues to increase, the plan laid out by the government and Tepco to complete the decommissioning work between 2041 and 2051 could be delayed.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in September said, "The government would like to take the responsibility and decide on the direction [of what to do with the treated water] as quickly as possible."

The Fukushima prefectural towns of Okuma and Futaba in August requested the government to make a swift policy decision.

Releasing the water could harm the reputation of the area's marine-related businesses. The government is planning to support the promotion of Fukushima products and help in getting the word out that the treated water is safe, in and outside of Japanese waters.

Tepco's first step would be to construct facilities that will be necessary to release the water, which still includes difficult-to-remove radioactive tritium. There is tritium-mixed water even in healthy nuclear power plants, but the concentration must be below a certain standard.

Treated water, in which enough radioactive materials other than tritium are removed, would be diluted up to about 600 times by uncontaminated water. The released water would then be well within international standards.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-set-to-release-Fukushima-water-into-Pacific-Ocean

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2   Shaman   2020 Oct 19, 8:27am  

Bottle it and sell it as a limp dick cure to the Chinese! Say it has trace amounts or rhino horn and bear gall bladder and shark fin. Add a little bat for flavor and make a killing!
3   Dholliday126   2020 Oct 19, 8:33am  

Why not let it evaporate and then bury the containers? Seems safer...
4   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 19, 10:14am  

Dholliday126 says
Why not let it evaporate and then bury the containers? Seems safer...


I guess the amount of new contaminated water grows faster than the old one evaporates.
5   Tenpoundbass   2020 Oct 19, 10:29am  

When I was a kid, we were taught in high school that Nuclear waste has a half life of 100 years or more. They weren't quite sure.
I now think that was a load of rubbish, to approve the Yucca mountain project, and have a Deep State vehicle to funnel billions of dollars to pet projects under the radar.
After the Three mile island meltdown and Chernobyl they said it would be few hundred years before those areas would return to normal. Now both places the wildlife and plants have all returned. In Chernobyl there are scores of squatters that has been living there for a decade or longer.
I think it degrades quicker than we were taught in High school.

The Pacific Ocean should be a lifeless body of water, with the amount of Nukes that were detonated in the 50's through the 70's for 20 years, they were detonating a nuke in the Pacific basin about twice a year. Each time a bigger blast than the last .I can't imagine the Fukishima site having more affect on the wild life than that. The Bikini Atoll has some of the most rich sea life in the Ocean some 50 years later.
6   Tenpoundbass   2020 Oct 19, 1:32pm  

You can tell that's fake, Crabs don't have eyelids .
7   RWSGFY   2020 Oct 19, 6:16pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Crabs don't have eyelids .


Or rather they didn't have eyelids until all that contaminated water has been dumped into the ocean.
8   just_passing_through   2020 Oct 19, 6:19pm  

Tenpoundbass says
You can tell that's fake, Crabs don't have eyelids .


I was thinking the saaame thing! My emerald crab sure doesn't have eyelids.. Otherwise he looks a LOT like that on a smaller scale. I dunno if he's green because he's mostly vegan or some other reason.

I haven't seen the show. Why didn't he eat those peepo on the beotch?

Tenpoundbass says
When I was a kid, we were taught in high school that Nuclear waste has a half life of 100 years or more.


True story they told you. Depends on what element the unstable version is made from. I think some are hundreds of thousands of years and others are nano seconds. All of em, given a chance, blow holes in your DNA like a slug from a gun. You have micro-robots which fix it but somewhat randomly they fuck up. Can you say CANCER kidos? You mainly want to avoid the ionizing types.
9   just_passing_through   2020 Oct 19, 6:24pm  

TrumpingTits says
You really want me to give you a spoiler?


Yeah, as I'll probably never watch it. Not that I don't want to. Maybe he made friends with the crab or saved it's mom? On second thought don't tell me.

TrumpingTits says
It is a comedy that spoofs the old mutant flicks of the 1950s, et all.


That makes is sound pretty good.
10   Ceffer   2020 Oct 19, 7:52pm  

That was fantastic CGI. Waste of a good babe-a-licious evil blond bimbo from crab claw cleavage cleavage foo, though.

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