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Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24 (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Here's the IAEA report: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/iaea_comprehensive_alps_report.pdf

The discharge limit for tritium is pre-defined in the Government Policy for discharges of ALPS treated water as 22 TBq per year, which is equivalent to the pre-accident discharge limits at FDNPS.

I'm also curious about how much discharge nuclear generators normally produce. If they discharge a certain amount as part of normal operation then it seems to me to also become a function of how many nuclear generators are being operated globally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Hongyanhe reactor annually releases 4x as many becquerels of tritium. The Fukushima metldown released 5,000x as much. So this is obviously a non-issue being drummed up due to politics. 🙄