Japan plans to release Fukushima wastewater to the Pacific – is it dangerous?

I find it interesting that the article doesn&#x27;t mention China, it&#x27;s right next to them, and it&#x27;s a substantial amount of people that depend on fishing from that area, they have been opposing it since day 1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.news.cn&#x2F;english&#x2F;2021-12&#x2F;22&#x2F;c_1310388252.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.news.cn&#x2F;english&#x2F;2021-12&#x2F;22&#x2F;c_1310388252.htm</a><p>That would also impact the Japanese, I don&#x27;t understand why it was proposed, either incompetence, or corruption..

This is behind a paywall so possibly I&#x27;m repeating stuff in the story.<p>The waste is supposedly low level (highly diluted) tritium and not much else so I&#x27;ve heard. If diluted sufficiently and spread over a wide enough area then it&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s in the detail and we need to told the facts without any B&#x2F;S before any release.

This is how Godzilla was born.