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2023-07-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Fukushima Radioactive Water Into Pacific Ocean Will Be Safe: IAEA

[Epoch Times] Japan’s plans to release radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean are consistent with international safety standards, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded.

The IAEA also stated that "controlled, gradual discharges of the treated water to the sea" as currently planned by Japan’s government and the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), would have a "negligible radiological impact on people and the environment."

While the water stored at the FDNPS has been treated through an "Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS)" to remove "almost all" radioactivity, it still remains tainted by tritium, a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen that can bond with oxygen to make water, making it difficult to fully remove.
Tritium is used with phosphorus in self-powered lighting devices which are used for night illumination of firearm sights, watches, exit signs, map lights, navigational compasses, etc.
Before the water is discharged into the Pacific Ocean, it’ll be diluted by Japanese authorities to reduce the tritium to below regulatory standards, the IAEA stated. Multiple nuclear power plants throughout the world regularly release wastewater containing tritium above the concentration of TEPCO’s treated water, according to reports.

In June, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin called the plan "extremely selfish and irresponsible," saying that the ocean is "humanity’s common good, not Japan’s private sewer."
Then he caught COVID-19 and expired. But the world remains China's sewer.

Posted by Bobby 2023-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Before we go bugnutz ....(Wiki):
"... Beta particles from tritium can penetrate only about 6.0 millimetres (0.24 in) of air, and they are incapable of passing through the dead outermost layer of human skin." a Beta particle is a fast moving electron, normally these would produce X-rays but...
"...The low energy of tritium's radiation makes it difficult to detect tritium-labeled compounds except by using liquid scintillation counting." Really, really slow (for fission products) electrons.
...And Tritium has a 12 year half-life so it isn't going to stay in the environment very long. And finally, dosage is the question and there is a lot of water in the Pacific Ocean to dilute it in.

I would be much more concerned about what chemicals the CCP's industrial plants are dumping in the their rivers that end up in the oceans.

Posted by magpie 2023-07-06 00:23|| 2023-07-06 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "Don't drink more than 67 Liters of Seawater per day"

Posted by Frank G 2023-07-06 06:36|| 2023-07-06 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Straight to San Francisco

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-06 06:56|| 2023-07-06 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Tritium is used with phosphorus in self-powered lighting devices which are used for night illumination of firearm sights, watches, exit signs, map lights, navigational compasses, etc.
...and glowing bong water

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-06 06:58|| 2023-07-06 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Banana equivalent dose

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-06 07:07|| 2023-07-06 07:07|| Front Page Top

#6 “He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no. There goes Tokyo….”

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-06 12:39|| 2023-07-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

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