A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday began its review of Japan's plan to begin releasing more than a million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

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they say radioactive isotopes can be reduced to low levels except tritium, but that is apparently safe in low amounts Seems like they're doing their best, what would you do with radioactive water?

I guess you could store and bury it.

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it will still seep into the aquifer eventually

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how else are we gonna get supersized monsters who destroy Tokyo like in sci-fi

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They should pour it down a volcano.

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Ok, I'm intrigued.. do you know what the outcome of that would be?

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Kaiju

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If we begin storing or dumping nuclear waste in volcanoes, however, those titanically massive eruptions will send that radioactive material soaring into the atmosphere and around the world, resulting in mass casualties and untold environmental destruction.

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/what-if-we-took-all-the-nuclear-waste-and-dumped-it-in-an-active-volcano.html

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Or, Godzilla... eh?

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The ocean is extremely large 1.4482598884 quintillion tons of water. I wouldn't worry about it.

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https://pic8.co/sh/TMRwF1.jpeg

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