Good, it’s about time. Tritiated water just isn’t dangerous. The ocean naturally contains billions of tons of URANIUM. A few kilograms of short lived tritium isn’t going to matter at all.
Finally someone who understands it’s not as scary as news want it to sound like.
I mean, it’s a lot of water they’re releasing.
However, the water they’re releasing it into is a LOT of water.
Maybe all the scare-people are homeopathy-lovers and hence think that the oceans will become utterly radioactive due to some water memory nonsense shit?Always wondered about how homeopathy people don’t realize that all of the water in this world at one point went through someone’s ass. How come it doesn’t have a memory of that?
That’s actually a selling point.
You could be right though. Secret fetish of thousands.
Nobody gave their ass-water the required number of magical shakes. Homeopathy predates twerking.
Better yet, the water they’re releasing has less tritium in it than average ocean water, so releasing it will actually be an improvement for the ocean (190 vs avg of 500 of some unit)
This is what I’ve heard too. It’s really no big deal. Concerned local fishermen are probably just not introduced to the physics of this. In general, humans tend to worry a bit more about radioactivity than necessary. This in particular will be diluted into basically nothing. The only real problem is the PR work that lies ahead for them. In practice, their people should probably be more concerned about constantly dying early from pollution. But hey, that’s a boring long-standing cause of death that doesn’t draw as much attention.
Wait I get that the ocean is gigantic but billions of tons?
Yep. Best estimate I have seen is 4.5 billion tons of uranium. Course, most of the natural radioactivity of our ocean is from potassium, actually. But either way, natural levels of radioactivity will not change.
4 billion tons at 3 ppb… It’s so much water, don’t try to drink it either.
For anyone curious:
From Wikipedia:
The total mass of Earth’s hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 10^18 tonnes, which is about 0.023% of Earth’s total mass.
People really need to educate themselves before protesting. There’s plenty of actually bad shit to protest, like South Korea’s ridiculous work ethics.
Don’t even have to look so far. Japan’s work ethic is awful, suicide rates are high and because of this the birth rate is declining.
I was very suspicious on China’s remarks as they have a track record of doing PR for themselves and no one else.
Or in terms of actual nuclear containment issues:
We really need to clean it up properly, not to mention take care of the people impacted by it’s creation.
Don’t tell the people fighting this about coal power plants and other things that actually fuck the environment and kill us.
It’ll be fine. Like, virtually harmless, kinda fine.
I’ll take 5 litres please, how much?
When you’re so salty that you drink sea water!
This news article doesn’t have the dates announced, but bloomberg does.
I didn’t want to post something with a paywall.
Update: I have now learned about archiving, the correct article is posted
I plan to release water as soon as I’m done drinking this beverage.
Do you drink sea water? Do you drink your shower or toilet water? Or the water you use for cleaning?
I wouldn’t.
I’m definitely getting an “opening scene from a Godzilla movie” vibes from this story.
Sadly for your version but very good for the actual release, the radioactivity of this is so incredibly irrelevant compared to the freaking oceans, Godzilla would be completely unable to even realize someone had done this.
