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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by Donald on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:00AM (#21247313)
Japan has been struggling to deal with the scope and cost of their disaster.

From last month:

> The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister has said

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/10/fukushim...

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Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon by Grue3 on Monday October 14, 2019 @08:48AM (#21247634)
That's established way to deal with tritium-contaminated water. It's done in many places around the world. There's natural tritium in the ocean, once the water is diluted to this level it's perfectly safe.
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