A former chief U.S. nuclear regulator asserted Tuesday that the massive volumes of tritium-tainted water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant can be ¡°safely¡± dumped into the sea after it is diluted to reduce the levels of radioactive tritium below the legal limit.
¡°Most people don¡¯t know what tritium is, so what they will think about is that it¡¯s bad, something that¡¯s really dangerous. But tritium is an element that we know a lot about,¡± Dale Klein, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co.¡¯s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, told a news conference in Tokyo.
¡°It can be released safely into the ocean. We know worldwide what the safe limit for tritium release is,¡± said Klein, who once headed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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