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Japan to Start Releasing Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater into Pacific Despite Major Objections
(www.democracynow.org)
Japan announced it will start releasing radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean starting Thursday. The move has been condemned by a number of Pacific nations, including China.
Also, I saw reddit libs downplaying it, coming up with excuses about low radioactivity, and why it's not a bad thing, so they can go back to brunch. All because it's Japan doing it, which can do no wrong. If it were China, they'd be frothing at the mouth. 
Fucking clowns. They couldn't care about what long-term accumulation would do to the environment, the safety of food, and public health. At this stage, anyone who supports these sort of crimes against public health deserve the absolute worst. 
Unfortunately I have to side with (or at least humor) the reddit libs on this one. People are so propagandized against anything to do with nuclear power that it's hard to judge whether their concerns are reasonable or fictional. Like, the way tritium is disposed of everywhere else is IIRC to more or less just dump it into the ocean (though obviously in a more controlled setting). Obviously state-level actors like China raising concerns adds credence but as far as I know, the IAEA are trustworthy as well. At any rate, I'm still not convinced without seeing actual numbers on eg how much tritiated water there is.
All that said eh they could just build more storage tanks
I mostly agree. In the hypothetical that there's so much tritium that it's unsafe to release, even diluted so much, though, I'm thinking about what could be done. Apparently there are ways to distill tritium out from water, and because there's so little tritium relative to water, you could presumably store whatever was less in some tanks. Tritium's half-life is 12-ish years and 8 half-lives is enough for it to be almost nothing, so whatever storage they make would be fine if it only lasted for a century.
True, and tritium being basically water means that it's especially tricky to contain.