Japan PM says Fukushima wastewater release can't be delayed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's new prime minister on Sunday said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.

Speaking at his first visit to the facility since taking office, Fumio Kishida said his government would work to reassure residents nearby the plant about the technical safety of the wastewater disposal project.

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Kishida's brief tour of the facility by its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, focused on the ongoing decommissioning of the plant, and the massive amount of treated but still radioactive water stored there.

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The government and TEPCO announced plans in April to start releasing the water into the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 2023 over the span of decades.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/japan-pm-says-fukushima-wastewater-125248800.html

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. This will be in addition to the millions of gallons

of contaminated water already dumped in the ocean?

Stupid humans are determined to make this planet uninhabitable.

[NNadir]

6. I agree. Humans will make the planet uninhabitable, because they hate nuclear power...

...largely out of extreme ignorance.

[Backseat Driver]

2. OK - Mother Earth and all her creatures say "Thanks for sharing" those /ppb released to the ocean

(as a controlled slow drip, lol) the most realistic option. We trust scientists and their models, right?

Maybe, just maybe, we can also conquer the global hot spots and spread in /ppb, of forever PFAS chemicals over a decade or two. Thanks, Joe!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Perhaps this article will ease people's minds a bit ...

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/stanford-research-on-effects-of-radioactivity-from-bikini-atoll-nuclear-tests-on-coral-and-crab-dna-48459144020c

Yet despite their radioactive diet, the crabs suffer no obvious ill effects. Palumbi and López are sequencing their genomes for comparison against samples from American Samoa and from Bikini before the nuclear testing began. “The question is, what is it doing to them?” Palumbi says. “We don’t have any idea. The way to get into the heart of it is to look at the DNA.”

It’s tempting to draw reassuring lessons from the atoll’s recovery. The research, López says, provides at least preliminary evidence that even if you destroy an ecosystem, it can heal with time — and with freedom from human interference.

Ironically, Bikini reefs look better than those in many places she’s dived.

“It didn’t look like this nightmare-scape that you might expect,” she says. “And that’s still something that’s weird to process.”

[NickB79]

4. Good. The best thing we can do for Japan's sea life is slightly irradiate it

I'm not joking. Not at all.

The effects on oceanic creatures will be minimal, if it can even be measured. The radiation would be a fraction of what any one of our hundreds of nuclear tests in the Pacific released.

The effects on human fishing, however, will be severe. Vast areas will be off-limits to trawling, because people will be terrified of eating contaminated seafood. And without fleets strip-mining the coastline, sea life will flourish, just like animal life has in the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones on land.

Everyday human activities are more toxic to the natural world than a melting reactor.

[NNadir]

5. It's tritiated water, nowhere near as dangerous as the daily releases of every damn coal plant...

...on the planet.

Nevertheless it's always news. Fukushima! Fukushima!

The difference between the tritiated water releases and the daily releases from coal plants - due to be operated on an increased scale this winter because gas is no longer sufficient to cover up for the wind industry's failure to address climate change - is that the releases from coal plants kill people, and the tritiated water is very unlikely to harm anyone or anything, even a fish.