Japan is set to win approval to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean, a contentious plan that’s soured ties with neighbors including China.
If you read the article, you’d see that other nuclear reactors, including one based in China, release much more tritium into the ocean than Fukushima. So it’s a bit unfair to call out Japan here specifically.
That said, it absolutely is polluting and we should absolutely find better ways to handling this waste.
Not just China! That’s radioactive waste being poured into ocean water! What the shit! That’s so polluting!
If you read the article, you’d see that other nuclear reactors, including one based in China, release much more tritium into the ocean than Fukushima. So it’s a bit unfair to call out Japan here specifically.
That said, it absolutely is polluting and we should absolutely find better ways to handling this waste.
Tritium half life is 12 years and doesn’t pose health risk in low concentration. Qualifying it of pollution is fear mongering.