Japan Considering Dumping Radioactive Water into the Sea, Minister Says interestingengineering.com

Japan’s environment minister revealed on Tuesday that Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) might have to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power station.
“The only option will be to drain it into the sea and dilute it,” the environment minister, Yoshiaki Harada, told a news briefing in Tokyo.
However, Tepco is expected to run out of space to store the contaminated water by 2022.
Source: RyuSeungil/iStockDealing with tritiumUnfortunately, the technology does not exist to rid the water of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
In the meantime, Japan is under intense pressure to address the contaminated water problem before Tokyo hosts the Olympic and Paralympic games.