No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean
No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean
An independent assessment of Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, nearly 12 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, finds it safe and reasonable.
It's kind of ironic when you think about it, the amount of fearmongering around nuclear power has actually led to more damage to the environment. Through burning fossil fuels for energy instead of using nuclear power there has arguably been more damage over time than all nuclear disasters in history. Just felt the need to write that, thanks for creating this community!
It's quite a rabbithole. My "favorite" is the fearmongering around reactor waste products. People resist nuclear because we "need to store the waste", even though we can reprocess it back into fissable fuel. But also we "can't" do that, because that process can potentially be hijacked to produce nuclear materiel.
Both are valid concerns, but it shouldn't be an impossible problem to solve. Especially these days, knowing how destructive some of our other common fuel sources are.