Shouldn’t the world have a choice on this?

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Tritium is not a big deal ...

I'm in the nucular-weapons industrial complex. The lore is that the best cure for a tritium uptake is beer - you flush it out as water. Supposedly at Rocky Flats, back in the cold war, they gave you a coupon for a case of Coors if you got a facefull.

There's lots of stuff in the oceans that's already radioactive. I'm not worried about a little bit more.

[RWebb]

Mike, it will have no measurable adverse consequences if it is sufficiently diluted, as in your example of it spreading out thru the entire Pacific.

OTOH, currents may or may not disperse it adequately - e.g. the Japanese Current flows from there to the PNW and Alaska. So, we will need to hear from the sub-section of oceanographers who study these currents. (If I had to bet, I'd bet you are right.)

OTOOH...
Measuring radioactivity is not the same as adverse consequences - we can measure far below health effects.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

and there are enough naturally present radioactive material just in the san francisco bay sea water to make several nuclear bombs

A few decades ago I lived in SF and went to a public meeting about a new power plant proposed there.
Really no personal opinion but I wanted to hear the sides speak.
It almost turned into a riot with groups of big men demanding construction jobs.

Hunter's Point (public housing but could be prime real estate with a bay view..where OJ Simpson grew up in the projects) supposedly had the highest breast cancer rate in the world due to left over from the 1950's US naval ownership, and many unaccounted dump sites.
At least that was the story.

But there are natural sources of radiation and plants that condense it everywhere.

Here in Michigan, radon testing which sometimes require air pumps below the basement slab, is a requirement in Title transfer I believe.

[Deschodt]

Copy paste from the guy I meantioned earlier:

LaHague reprocessing plant : *casually releases 12PBq tritium per year*
The media : who cares?
Fukushima : *Tries to release 1~2PBq of tritium as IAEA recommended since 2014*
The media : ECOLOGICAL DISASTER OF UNPRECEDENTED SCALE

[cairns]

Oh for fks sake, let them dump it and bring on all the great Godzilla memes.

xtra points if they tow it to Cape Cod.

[island911]

How dare they, those Japanese... This is world war. Time to nuke'em! again! oh wait.

[island911]

Funny, this is a geopolitical topic...

I thought OT peeps couldn't stand to see such things.