Report: Japan Plans to Flush Radioactive Fukishima Water into the Ocean

breitbart ^ | 10/17/2018 | Ben Kew

[chief lee runamok]

Environmental authorities in Japan are planning to flush over one million tons of radioactive water into the ocean after running out of space to contain it, according to a report Tuesday from the Daily Telegraph.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

The auto-correct on my phone drives me nuts. I gotta check on how to turn it off. It constantly takes a correct spelling I make and changes it to some unrelated word that I never intended and makes no sense in the context.

[logi_cal869]

But, but, but...it will be diluted.

/s

[Jeff Chandler]

Goziera.

[wgmalabama]

Yeah. That’s my trouble. Not! I can’t spell wort shat. I will say that the voice thing on my phone butchers what I say into total incomprehensible garbage. I went to public school so I’m half illiterate (I can’t spell but I’m an engineer).

[Larry Lucido]

Too much! It’s unnatural, I tell ya!

[logi_cal869]

Do you have any clue as to how much gamma energy is released when a single Cesium 137 particle decays into its daughter particle?

I bet not.

Go ahead: Keep eating Pacific fish. /s

Dispersion is not “dilution”.

[Calvin Locke]

Let’s see. Art Bell would have that guy on that would predict earthquakes.

He’d say a tidal foot of seawater per mi2 is a million tons.

BTB, the third largest source of natural background radiation is from a potassium isotope.

[lurk]

Correct me if I am wrong. Doesn’t the fukushima radioactive material have a short half life?

[alexander_busek]

Correct me if I am wrong. Doesn’t the fukushima radioactive material have a short half life?

Then why flush it now?!

Why not first wait another, say, three half-lifes, allowing the radioactivity to drop to one-eighths - and then release it?!

Regards,

[Steve Van Doorn]

If they run it through a good filter I don’t see an issue. Water doesn’t store radiation the contaminants do.

[faucetman]

“Humans are so arrogant regarding their scale vs. the Earth.”

Here, here, a person after my own heart!

[Zathras]

You are correct.
Ba 137 decay is a nasty gamma emitter.

[logi_cal869]

And in the blink of an eye.

[Wuli]

That will be 1 million out of 779,790,000,000,000 million tons of water in the Pacific Ocean.

The REAL science queastion is the rate of the dispersal of the waste water around the Pacific and by how many factors will the severity of its radioactivity be reduced, in what time frame.

[jim_trent]

Aging it improves the taste.