Fukushima Radiation Leak

I don't know much about the subject, but could anything be done to disperse the water and dilute it more? (tons of boats with giant nets/pumps?)

We could just bioengineer algae and microbes to eat all the waste and then let the whales eat the algae.

Then when the whales die from radiation poisoning, it's all contained and concentrated in their dead bodies at the bottom of the ocean. Or if they're lucky, they don't get poisoning, and everything's cool all around.

>>8751537
Good thought I was also thinking something along those lines too but also, it would just mean lower radiation levels across a larger body of water meaning more sea life being effected by it.

I'm not entirely sure if spreading it out would necessarily be beneficial

>>8751554
That's actually another really good thought.

Bioengineer algae and microbes to be able to process radioactive minerals from sea water, while not becoming radioactive themselves.

That would require serious testing though in order to prevent the possibility of mass sea life extinction, in case the algae or microbes flourish.

>>8751567
Flourish while retaining radioactivity*

>>8751298
>remove radiation from the ocean

Salt water already naturally contains significant levels of radioisotopes, and water is a very effective radiation shielding material.

There is literally no reason why we would need to clean radioisotopes out of the ocean. In fact if we took all waste uranium and other elements from all nuclear reactors in the world and reacted it with chlorine to form slats and then dissolved those salts into the ocean, it would not significantly increase the ocean water's radioactivity. That's of course as long as it was properly diluted, which we could accomplish by releasing it into the deep ocean and allow it to mix for a long time before rising to the surface.

>>8751573
Yes you're correct about that but the unnatural and extreme levels of radioactive cesium being released into the Pacific ocean by the Fukushima leak is already causing a large amount of ocean life to be inedible. If it reaches the western coast of the Americas, the effect on sea life globally will be catastrophic

>>8751589
No, it's not. Where are you getting this nonsense?

>>8751630
Straight from Japanese farmers and fishermen

>>8751630
He's right. In a way. Doesn't the plankton they eat contain more radiation because I remember something about plankton containing significant doses. That's why a lot of fish were washing up with their eyes popped out, and some whales, which i assume ate those fish

>>8751573
>releasing radioactive materials into the deep ocean
>>8751589
>contamination not leaving the coastal shelf at risk of being concentrated by sea life

>>8751589
>If it reaches the western coast of the Americas

this is very very unlikely, virtually impossible

>>8752181
The radiation reaching the coast of the Americas is predicted to happen in six years if the leak is not fixed by a German marine research team simulation