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Comment by Namari | Hacker News Reader

Why not dropping that to the Sahara or to any remote desert that nobody lives?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Logistics... Where is Japan and where is Sahara

Well because some people actually do live in Sahara

We could dig dip and move people, it's not like they are millions. Better moving them than ruining Ocean life that feeds us.

Ocean life won't be ruined by this. The waters that they want to dump into the ocean are literally less radioactive than the ocean itself.

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