On: No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioactive Water

[mapt]

Normal ocean water has potassium and rubidium radionuclides that run to 11Bq/L.

At the higher level of 5MBq/L, they would need to dilute it into 3000km^3 of seawater in order to reach double background radiation levels, or a patch of the 6km deep Pacific abyssal plain that is 22km x 22km.

[tptacek → mapt]

That is a microscopic fraction of the 6km+ deep Pacific, right?

[mcv → mapt]

So don't dump it all in one place, but spread it around. Dilute it before dumping, probably.