Why Japan’s Radioactive Water May End Up In the Ocean - The Washington Post

Why Japan’s Radioactive Water May End Up In the Ocean - The Washington Post: The Japanese utility giant Tepco is considering a plan to dump more than 1 million cubic meters of treated radioactive water -- enough to fill 400 Olympic-size swimming pools -- from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, part of its nearly $200 billion effort to clean up the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl. Storage tanks at the site are forecast to be full by mid-2022, and space for building more is scarce. Scary as it sounds, discharges are common prac