• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Dumping is illegal where I live, you'll get a fine ;)

    Jokes aside, does anyone with a chemistry/physics background know of a technical solution/alternative to dumping? I suspect Japan would not dump nuclear waste in their domestic waters if they could avoid it.

    • blterrible@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we're talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.