Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to shut down the facility that had reactor meltdowns 12 years ago.
Good! About damn time. Tritium isn’t dangerous when diluted in the ocean, which contains 4.5 BILLION TONS of uranium naturally.