The head of Japan's national fisheries cooperatives has reiterated his group’s opposition to the planned discharge of treated radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, demanding the government take full responsibility for any negative impact on the industry. “We cannot support the government’s stance that…
As far as I know, for example, the US made a huge hole in the middle of the desert really deep and filled it with concrete and put some kind of monolith written in like 5 languages telling anyone in the future to not open it. I honestly can think of a lot of other ways to get rid of it rather than throwing it into the ocean with how we are in terms of the climate crisis.
I think that project failed if I am not mistaken. Not only that, Japan doesnt have a desert to build a concrete hole in and even if they did, concrete holes are expensive.
Dumping the waste is the most affordable option. Since it’s state sponsored, Japan could theoretically start a state run corporation which accepts nuclear waste for a fee (maybe by the ton?) which they would then “process.”
Japan gets economic benefit, nuclear-fired nations can dispose of their waste, everybody wins…?