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Japan Set to Pour Fukushima Waste Into Pacific, Irking China
(www.bloomberg.com)
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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.
Eh it's not that bad. A lot of shit is getting dumped into the ocean. I'd only worry if this became commonplace.