Protests have erupted in neighboring countries as Japan began releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The water, fil...
one: this material has been treated, retreated, re-retreated, diluted by 100x, then inspected and cleared as meeting some regulation, and it's release will be metered out over 30 years. it seems like the institutions tasked with handling this problem are doing everything in their capacity to make this as safe as possible
two: none of that matters if the insititutions that made this decision made it for financial reasons, and given that's the only possible reason you would have to not just, y'know, permanentize the storage situation and continue trying to figure out a more environmentally friendly way to neutralize/dispose/repurpose that material, i'm more inclined to expect corners have been cut, and for this to have predictably awful consequences
BONUS third mind? oh no it's shitposting about godzilla get me out of here
i am of two minds about this
one: this material has been treated, retreated, re-retreated, diluted by 100x, then inspected and cleared as meeting some regulation, and it's release will be metered out over 30 years. it seems like the institutions tasked with handling this problem are doing everything in their capacity to make this as safe as possible
two: none of that matters if the insititutions that made this decision made it for financial reasons, and given that's the only possible reason you would have to not just, y'know, permanentize the storage situation and continue trying to figure out a more environmentally friendly way to neutralize/dispose/repurpose that material, i'm more inclined to expect corners have been cut, and for this to have predictably awful consequences
BONUS third mind? oh no it's shitposting about godzilla get me out of here