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U.S. military bulk buys Japanese seafood to counter China ban
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Here's the thing, Uranium is already present in seawater at concentrations far above what you would get if you dumped the entirety of Fukushima's corium straight into the ocean.
See, there's a common form of uranium oxide that's water-soluble. A large part of the world's free uranium is already in the ocean in solution.
What’s your point? Uranium is not the only fissile radionuclide that can make its way into the contaminated wastewater. Also nuclear fuel contains a much higher concentration of fissile Uranium isotopes than what is found in nature. Lastly, the radionuclides in the wastewater are not going to be evenly mixed across all of the worlds oceans so that’s not exactly a useful thought experiment.
Let me put it this way, you could dump ten thousand Fukushimas straight into the ocean and given time to diffuse a bit, not notice a difference in oceanic uranium content.
The Oceans contain 1000 times more uranium than the known terrestrial deposits. This naturally includes the fissile isotopes.
But the real point is that it's actually fairly easy to filter that shit out via reverse osmosis. Thus, the only thing that the Fukushima water contains is tritium, which is impossible to filter out of water.