Fukushima radioactive water to be dumped into the ocean

Damn.

Having spent my entire career in the nuclear industry I could have offered some opinion on this. But the article is just fluff. There is not any data as to the amount of water planned to be dumped and more importantly what the level of contamination it contains. Junk article IMO.

ifsteve said:

Having spent my entire career in the nuclear industry I could have offered some opinion on this. But the article is just fluff. There is not any data as to the amount of water planned to be dumped and more importantly what the level of contamination it contains. Junk article IMO.

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Agreed, and with some digging we can probably find it. The bigger point for me is it will become okay to dump it in the ocean in the future because "Japan did it"

You can bet that the finest minds will still be wrestling with what to do with all kinds of nuclear waste - long after we're gone....

It is without a doubt something that all of us will have a stake in... for as far into the future as you can imagine. If it's able to be solved, nuclear power might actually become something that replaces fossil fuels eventually...

There’s no such thing as nuclear waste water, it’s the small hat’s controlling media hype. I’m more concerned with all the sewage and garbage that makes it to the ocean.

Smackdaddy53 said:

There’s no such thing as nuclear waste water, it’s the small hat’s controlling media hype. I’m more concerned with all the sewage and garbage that makes it to the ocean.

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This is the water that was used to help cool down nuclear reactor meltdown - I believe that it came in direct contact with the fuel rods and has been irradiated? They will run out of storage space for that water by 2022, and they are considering "diluting" it by releasing it back into the ocean.

lemaymiami said:

You can bet that the finest minds will still be wrestling with what to do with all kinds of nuclear waste - long after we're gone....

It is without a doubt something that all of us will have a stake in... for as far into the future as you can imagine. If it's able to be solved, nuclear power might actually become something that replaces fossil fuels eventually...

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It was already solved. The repository at Yucca Mtn was well underway until Harry Reid got Pres. Obama to shut it down.

Additionally there is a huge underground salt cavern at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in NM that has huge capacity. We just need to revise the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to allow WIPP to accept wastes beyond transuranic waste only. There are no real technical reasons not to do so.

Nuclear power is the answer, or at least a major part of the answer. It is the most environmentally friendly energy source there is if the politicians could let us engineers and scientists just do our jobs.

More than a year ago, I had a link in my computer that died recently which was (I think) the "UN official report" on the status of the plant and Japans lack of even properly surveying the core because the heat was destroying everything they tried to get in close with. They were using at that time seawater to cool the core and the contaminated water was NOT being stored. They also had a map showing where they claimed the contaminated water was going.

Dilution is the solution to the pollution.

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