IAEA Report on Tritiated Water Releases at Fukushima.

The report is here: IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS-Treated Water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

It speaks for itself.

"ALPS" stands for "Advanced Liquid Processing System." Presumably these are ion exchange resins.

I have argued - and will not be dissuaded from this opinion - that more people have been killed by air pollution generated at fossil fuel power plants to provide electricity to computers used to carry on mindlessly about Fukushima than have been killed by the radiation releases connected with the natural disaster there. (About 20,000 people were killed in the tsunami and quake, but they were killed by seawater largely, which is apparently not sexy enough to generate an ounce of concern. You will grow old waiting for an antinuke in a selective attention festival to call for banning coastal cities because of the tsunami(s). )

I have understood - and will likewise not being dissuaded from this opinion - that fossil fuel interests love to throw gasoline (both literally and figuratively) on otherwise inane and nonsensical rhetoric thrown around by antinukes. I contend that the only path to the phase out dangerous fossil fuels - now required on an emergency basis - goes through nuclear energy.

I note that the fossil fuel promotional interests here - a promotion based on rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen" at a cost in exergy destruction - have very little interest in any other topic other than hydrogen except for carrying on about the water releases at Fukushima. To me, that's telling. They're sure selling coal in Germany these days.

To match the death toll from climate change and air pollution, as I often point out, nuclear energy would need to result in more than 7 million deaths per year, or 19,000 per day, roughly. I often challenge antinukes to produce a reputable report showing that the nearly 70 year history of nuclear energy - including the bogeymen Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island - has led to as many deaths as will result in the next eight hours from air pollution. (A reputable report would be one from the primary scientific literature including references, methods and data, not some nut job conspiracy theories.) The antinukes so challenged either sulk away, change the subject, or otherwise fail to address the challenge put forth.

The tritium being released at Fukushima isn't harming anyone at a measurable level. All the bullshit in the world will not change that fact.

Facts matter.

Have a nice afternoon and evening.