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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They have treated the waste water, so it isn't dumping. The water is well below the recommended parameters for releasing water.

There is nothing wrong with this. People are just freaking out because its "nuclear waste", which causes people to be irrational.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk why the downvotes, I'm actually curious about this. Do you know how the waste is treated? I have a some education in radioactive materials and it doesn't seem like an easy problem to solve.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you have some "education about radioactive materials" you'd know that the half-life of tritium is 12.5years and that it is a beta emitter. This type of radiation isn't harmful unless ingested. You would also know that the water has been diluted to safe levels before being released in the ocean, and even after that dilution, it will also not be released all at once, further reducing the chance of re-concentration and making radiation poisoning impossible. Finally since this is tritium we are talking about it, it isn't a bio-accumlator and if you did drink too much tritated water, the treatment would be to drink an increased amount of tap water.

Since you are still just "asking questions," about how Tritrated water is "treated" it kind of sounds like you don't actually know about radioactive materials at all otherwise you would know about H3, i.e. tritium and wouldn't be concerned about "treatment" only the concentration of the released water.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Decades and decades of fossil fuel company propaganda against nuclear is a helluva drug

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuclear bad! Solar just around the corner! Ignore current emissions!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Solar?! Too expensive!! And it's dark for half the day everyday! We need windd!!! Let's continue to fight about stupid shit and ignore our emissions.