Protesters gathered in the capital of South Korea on Saturday to demand that the government take steps to avoid what they fear is a looming disaster from Japan's release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      72·
      11 months ago

      Cause you deserve it. You lie about your background and act as if you are “just asking questions” when in reality all you are doing to other people is saying “I’m an expert and treating this waste is impossible so how are they doing it”.

      • lntl@lemmy.ml
        112·
        11 months ago

        Still with the nasty…

        No one deserves to be spoken to that way. Do better.

        I’m educated enough to know it’s not necessarily a trivial process. The “treating waste is impossible” schtick are your words, not mine.

        Let me get it straight. You’re telling us that:

        • beta emitters aren’t so bad
        • the treatment process (which is what I asked about) is dilution

        Is that right? Dilution is the only “treatment” applied before discharge?

        • blterrible@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          They settle out all of the heavier radioactive elements. They then dilute the remaining heavy water with additional water to drive the level of tritium to an acceptable level. It is then dumped into the ocean and rapidly mixes with the surrounding seawater. If you were to look at a map of ocean currents you’d see generally where it would go from there, but it doesn’t really matter because tritium isn’t really a significant concern. If they were dumping significant quantities of cobalt 60 you should care more, but they aren’t, so you shouldn’t.