[dikei]

They are dumping 1 Million metric tons of water over a period of 30 years.

Even if China allow them to dump the water into the Gobi desert, it'd still cost billions of dollar to build and operate the pipeline. It'd never happen.

[Namari]

True but at this point it's not just a Japanese problem but a world wide one, if they dump it in the ocean, it could affect all the life that live there and consequently human life that feeds of it. It reminds me of the WW2 boats that are still in the Oceans leaking toxic products and nobody wants to pay to take them out.

[jhugo]

Just to be clear, they are dumping a few grams of a relatively benign element which is regularly & safely discharged into the ocean during the normal operations of nuclear facilities worldwide, diluted in an extremely large volume of seawater.

"it could affect all the life that live there and consequently human life that feeds of it" is not supported by any science, it's just fear, the same fear that leads us to keep running coal power plants that kill people on a daily basis.

[dikei]

Nah, global warming due to CO2 is a world wide problem; this is, at best, a regional issue, since the water will be so diluted once it reach the other side of the ocean. Most likely, that this won't be an issue at all.