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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-it-begins dept.

The Japanese environment minister says Japan may have to dump the radioactive water from the destroyed nuclear power plants at Fukushima into the sea.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-water/japan-will-have-to-dump-radioactive-fukushima-water-into-pacific-minister-says-idUSKCN1VV0CC

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.

An unreliable source noted that Cthulhu have muttered something along the lines of "fools ... godzilla ..." something or other.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @10:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @10:25PM (#894184)

    Send it all into the swimming pools of those who keep defending uranium-fission reactors and keep deluding themselves into thinking that with enough technology, they could somehow be made "safe".

    No technology will ever make uranium-fission reactors "safe", because no technology, present or future, will ever be idiot-proof. Ever.

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