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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 14 2019, @10:39PM (1 child)
Correct. The explosions set Godzilla free, they didn't create Godzilla.
To add some context, the Japanese people were at their lowest low point in history, militarily and psychologically. Their god-emperor had just surrendered to a foreign power, which had used atomic bombs on their homeland. No other gods were arriving on the scene to bail them out, so they created a nice fictional god-monster to watch over them. I suppose you had to be Japanese, steeped in Japanese culture and mythology to really appreciate the story. But, it was still a cool story, even for us in the unwashed barbarian hordes that had wrecked the Japanese empire.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 15 2019, @12:19AM
And the original is VERY anti-nuclear.
Don't really remember the American remake with Raymond Burr: i'm sure they toned down the 'anti-nuclear' quite a bit, lol.
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