Good, it’s about time. Tritiated water just isn’t dangerous. The ocean naturally contains billions of tons of URANIUM. A few kilograms of short lived tritium isn’t going to matter at all.
Finally someone who understands it’s not as scary as news want it to sound like.
I mean, it’s a lot of water they’re releasing.
However, the water they’re releasing it into is a LOT of water.
Maybe all the scare-people are homeopathy-lovers and hence think that the oceans will become utterly radioactive due to some water memory nonsense shit?Always wondered about how homeopathy people don’t realize that all of the water in this world at one point went through someone’s ass. How come it doesn’t have a memory of that?
That’s actually a selling point.
You could be right though. Secret fetish of thousands.
Nobody gave their ass-water the required number of magical shakes. Homeopathy predates twerking.
Wait I get that the ocean is gigantic but billions of tons?
Yep. Best estimate I have seen is 4.5 billion tons of uranium. Course, most of the natural radioactivity of our ocean is from potassium, actually. But either way, natural levels of radioactivity will not change.
4 billion tons at 3 ppb… It’s so much water, don’t try to drink it either.
For anyone curious:
From Wikipedia:
The total mass of Earth’s hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 10^18 tonnes, which is about 0.023% of Earth’s total mass.
Better yet, the water they’re releasing has less tritium in it than average ocean water, so releasing it will actually be an improvement for the ocean (190 vs avg of 500 of some unit)
This is what I’ve heard too. It’s really no big deal. Concerned local fishermen are probably just not introduced to the physics of this. In general, humans tend to worry a bit more about radioactivity than necessary. This in particular will be diluted into basically nothing. The only real problem is the PR work that lies ahead for them. In practice, their people should probably be more concerned about constantly dying early from pollution and protest more about that.
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It’s not that the impact will be minimal, it is that it will not be present. It’s not that it’s possible that the release will be harmless. It’s a fact that it will be harmless. China and Korea are “raising concerns” because if they can economically punish the Japanese for being monsters during WW2 and the Japanese occupation of Korea, they will. And they’ll do that whether the water is properly released now or if we futz about for ten more years and THEN release it.
Don’t tell the people fighting this about coal power plants and other things that actually fuck the environment and kill us.
It’ll be fine. Like, virtually harmless, kinda fine.
I’ll take 5 litres please, how much?
When you’re so salty that you drink sea water!
This news article doesn’t have the dates announced, but bloomberg does.
I didn’t want to post something with a paywall.
Update: I have now learned about archiving, the correct article is posted
Post it with an archive link
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12ft.io works well. Not sure if a bot could auto generate known paywall sites?
I plan to release water as soon as I’m done drinking this beverage.
Do you drink sea water? Do you drink your shower or toilet water? Or the water you use for cleaning?
I wouldn’t.
I’m definitely getting an “opening scene from a Godzilla movie” vibes from this story.
Sadly for your version but very good for the actual release, the radioactivity of this is so incredibly irrelevant compared to the freaking oceans, Godzilla would be completely unable to even realize someone had done this.
I’d still watch that movie. Start off by tuning in to the headlines from Exposition News Network to set up the plot, follow with ominous music while workers do industrial things in the rain. When the time is right, release valves open and alarm bells start ringing. Water floods out and mixes into the ocean where it (and the camera view) are swept away by powerful underwater currents.
Cut to an anonymous island in the Pacific where a dragonfly is zipping around doing dragonfly stuff. Give it a little more screentime and then a lizard explodes into the frame to snatch it out of the air. After its hard-earned meal, the lizard heads down to the waterline to swim/drink/scope out some hot single lizard babes in their area or whatever they do. Ominous music returns in time for the fed and hydrated lizard to sneak off for a nap.
The rest of the movie is just a wordless lizard documentary where we follow it around through a few days in its perfectly ordinary life.