I find it interesting that the article doesn't mention China, it's right next to them, and it's a substantial amount of people that depend on fishing from that area, they have been opposing it since day 1: <a href="http://www.news.cn/english/2021-12/22/c_1310388252.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.news.cn/english/2021-12/22/c_1310388252.htm</a><p>That would also impact the Japanese, I don't understand why it was proposed, either incompetence, or corruption..
This is behind a paywall so possibly I'm repeating stuff in the story.<p>The waste is supposedly low level (highly diluted) tritium and not much else so I've heard. If diluted sufficiently and spread over a wide enough area then it's likely the safest, most practical and the most environmentally sound way of disposing of it.<p>Tritium has a half life of a bit over 12 years and it's a low level beta emitter with low energy (low range, low penenetrative ability) so it seems to me all the whingeing is a bit of a beat-up—the usual nuclear scaremongering.<p>Of course, the devil's in the detail and we need to told the facts without any B/S before any release.