But I wouldn't mind seeing more of the Mothra Twins.
Posted on 02/15/2022 10:09:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Japan on Monday to review a plan to release treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
Japan hoped the visit would help it push through the plan, which is opposed by the local fishing industry and neighboring countries.
The wastewater has been kept in massive tanks since the plant went into meltdown in 2011, and storage space is running out.
The IAEA team would evaluate the safety and radiation effects on humans and the sea.
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Looks like they never watched any of those Godzilla movies.
They’re not movies, they’re documentaries.
But I wouldn't mind seeing more of the Mothra Twins.
In exchange, Earth girls are easy, y'know... Nancy, AOC, Hillary, Joy Reid... they'd all love to party with some martians. Yes, of course they would.
Dumping treated coolant is really only a political problem. After the the coolant is treated the only radioactivity left is from tritium which is a low energy beta emitter with a 12 year half life. It has already had one half life to decay. Diluted in the ocean it is harmless.
The only problem with dumping in the ocean is political.
Fish will be caught pre-cooked...
” Nancy, AOC, Hillary, Joy Reid..”
You want to start an interplanetary war? Cause that’s how you get one.
Throw in Maddow, Cheney, and a few others and you've got an epic Martian frat party.
A couple of weeks later they'll be back... "Hey, uh no big deal but you got any more of that nucular (sic) waste you need hauled off?"
Mine’s bigger..............
Dilution is the solution to pollution it seems
--as with everything else about nuclear power--
Yes. just fill a super tanker, take it out to mid ocean, and dump it.
Are they going to filter the water to remove most of the soluble isotopes and check for the 1/2 lives of the remaining isotopes?
Exactly. That used to be what the Navy did until politics happened again.
Now they take care if it in a more roundabout way.
That's been done for a while. What they have stored in tanks has been through ion exchangers.
I’ve read that too. We did tons of surveys in the bikinis expecting to see radiation damage and didn’t find any. There was something about a ship near San Francisco bay that sunk with radioactive waste (i think) and they had to get within inches to get any reading at all. The sea blocks or absorbs it so quickly its a non issue
I’m not even talking about accidental releases.
This treated was is so clean, you could use it for drinking water. In fact Rickover did drink controlled pure water as it’s called to show how safe it is.
And you are right about the Bikini wildlife. The crabs are thriving. The concern with people living there is that such isotopes as strontium-90 from fallout is in the soil and that will concentrate in the bones like calcium. It will all decay away eventually.
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