Isabelle Boemeke

They started to make these tanks and they were, you know, storing this contaminated water, thinking about something, they were going to do something in the future.

So they finally actually developed an entire technology that filtrates the water.

And so they can pass all of the contaminated water to this filtration system that gets rid of every single radioactive isotope except for tritium.

Because tritium is actually a radioactive form of hydrogen.

And as you know, water has hydrogen, so it's like...

It's basically water.

It's like in the water.

It's in the water.

Exactly.

So it's really hard.

You could extract, but you would have to develop a crazy technology and it doesn't really make sense.

So actually the best way to dispose of that tritiated water is to just dissolve it.

When you just add more water and you just make the concentration of tritium.

Dilute it.

Yeah.

At first, they are diluting the water itself.

So they're adding more water to the treated water.

And then, like you said, releasing it into the ocean in a very slow pace so that it gets diluted into the ocean.

Now, the reason why I'm not too nervous about that is because the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is this international organization that is in charge of promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear while stopping the proliferation of weapons, is overseeing this whole dumping the water system.

And so there are monitors.