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The Japanese environment minister says Japan may have to dump the radioactive water from the destroyed nuclear power plants at Fukushima into the sea.
Tokyo Electric, or Tepco, has collected more than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting since the plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
"The only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it," the minister, Yoshiaki Harada, told a news briefing in Tokyo.
"The whole of the government will discuss this, but I would like to offer my simple opinion."
The government is awaiting a report from an expert panel before making a final decision on how to dispose of the radioactive water.
[...] The utility says it will run out of room to store the water by 2022. Harada did not say how much water would need to be dumped into the ocean.
Any green light from the government to dump the waste into the sea would anger neighbors such as South Korea, which summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last month to explain how the Fukushima water would be dealt with.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday September 14 2019, @09:05PM (1 child)
Load it onto barges and send it towards the islands China is expanding. When it gets close, just dump it into 'their' water, contaminating the area.
Or load it into tons of V2 rockets and fire it at the islands: shouldn't take THAT many rockets.
Or use subs to secretly contaminate the rice paddy water: make the Chinese people glow in the dark and if we ever have to go to war against them, you won't need night vision goggles!
Those cunning Japanese people already have plans, i bet.
Cunning, cunning plans.
Geez! I'm channeling Ethanol-Baldrick!
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 15 2019, @12:17AM
Troll?
Now i say... i say, that, son, is....i say it's Humour, son. Humour!
Can't teach a child humour when they have no funny bone.
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