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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima news [View all]Bennyboy
(10,440 posts)A nuclear expert helping with the clean-up at the crisis-stricken Fukushima plant has joined a chorus of voices saying that all the accumulating radioactive waste water must eventually be dumped into the ocean.
Speaking with Australia's ABC, Dale Klein, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and current head of the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee hired by plant operator TEPCO, described the situation at the plant as "challenging."
Massive amounts of radioactive water used to cool the reactors continue to build up daily in hastily built storage tanks, some which have already leaked, creating an unsustainable scenario.
Eventually, Klein told ABC, that water must be treated to reduce its radioactivity and then dumped into he ocean.
"At the end of the day, when the water is discharged, it will be released in a way that it's diluted," he said.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/20-4