Fukushima bottled water anyone?
Posted: 22 Aug 2023, 13:06The Japanese are to start discharging water used to keep things cool at the plant - 1.34 million tonnes of it and the world and his dog are up in arms.
The BBC helpfully tells us that it is the equivalent of 500 Olympic sized swimming pools. It's a cube roughly 111 metres per side - scary, eh?
Well hang on. There are about 1.3 trillion cubic kilometres of water in the seas so it literally is a drop in the ocean. Not only that, it is a process taking 30 years to complete. All radiation solids have been removed meaning only Tritium (heavy water) is left and it is so diluted as to be at lower levels than those allowed from shore based nuclear power plant discharges.
We need a bit of perspective on this.
The BBC helpfully tells us that it is the equivalent of 500 Olympic sized swimming pools. It's a cube roughly 111 metres per side - scary, eh?
Well hang on. There are about 1.3 trillion cubic kilometres of water in the seas so it literally is a drop in the ocean. Not only that, it is a process taking 30 years to complete. All radiation solids have been removed meaning only Tritium (heavy water) is left and it is so diluted as to be at lower levels than those allowed from shore based nuclear power plant discharges.
We need a bit of perspective on this.