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Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea
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Japan has announced it will release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, a decision that has angered neighbouring countries, including China, and local fishers.
Official confirmation of the move, which came more than a decade after the nuclear disaster, will deal a further blow to the fishing industry in Fukushima, which has opposed the measure for years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/16/fukushima-fisherman-fear-for-future-over-release-of-radioactive-water


The prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, told a meeting of ministers on Tuesday that the government had decided that releasing the water into the Pacific Ocean was the “most realistic” option, and “unavoidable in order to achieve Fukushima’s recovery”.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], and government officials say tritium, a radioactive material that is not harmful in small amounts, cannot be removed from the water, but other radionuclides can be reduced to levels allowed for release.
“The Japanese government has compiled basic policies to release the processed water into the ocean, after ensuring the safety levels of the water … and while the government takes measures to prevent reputational damage,” Suga told reporters.


Work to release the diluted water will begin in about two years, the government said, with the entire process expected to take decades.
“On the premise of strict compliance with regulatory standards that have been established, we select oceanic release,” it said in a statement.
China denounced the plan as “extremely irresponsible”, and accused Japan of reaching the decision “without regard for domestic and foreign doubts and opposition”.
“This approach is extremely irresponsible and will seriously damage international public health and safety and the vital interests of the people of neighbouring countries,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on its website.

South Korea summoned Japan’s ambassador, Koichi Aiboshi, the broadcaster YTN reported, while a high-level government official said Seoul “firmly opposes” the move, a view also expressed by Taiwan’s Atomic Energy Council.
The US was supportive, describing Japan’s decision-making process as “transparent”.
“We thank Japan for its transparent efforts in its decision to dispose of the treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi site,” the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, tweeted.
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The announcement drew swift condemnation from environmental groups.
Greenpeace Japan said it “strongly condemned” the water’s release, which “completely disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region”.
“The Japanese government has once again failed the people of Fukushima,” said Kazue Suzuki, the group’s climate and energy campaigner.
“The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive waste. It has discounted the radiation risks and turned its back on the clear evidence that sufficient storage capacity is available on the nuclear site as well as in surrounding districts.


Japanese officials have objected to media descriptions of the water as “contaminated” or “radioactive”, insisting that it be described as “treated”.
Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace East Asia, said that claim was “clearly false”.
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“If it was not contaminated or radioactive they would not need approval (to release the water) from Japan’s nuclear regulator,” he said. “The water in the tanks is indeed treated, but it is also contaminated with radioactivity. The Japanese government has been deliberately seeking to deceive over this issue, at home and abroad.”
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Dumping over a period of years. Not all at once
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From U.N.'s website:

Quote:While Japan said that the tritium levels are very low and do not pose a threat to human health, scientists warn that in the water, the isotope organically binds to other molecules, moving up the food chain affecting plants and fish and humans.

I assume the U.N., after some members and people's condemnation of the action, might be pushing their own agenda but I wonder who is right here. What they are seeing is plausible to me. Plus I have read somewhere that if a leak happened right now at Fukushima where they are storing the contaminated water the effects would be a lot worse.
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And that's why I don't trust nuclear power. When it goes wrong, it's very bad, and people won't store the waste properly. No way to dispose of the waste, either - store it for a billion years, or dispose of it incorrectly.

I haven't heard of anyone trying to dump it in Space/Moon (far enough away that it won't bother us for a billion years), but doubt that would be any better, since dumps would probably get caught in Earth's gravity and fall back.
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They should find a better way than dumping it in the ocean. This is bad for the environment and might even change the ecology of the Pacific ocean.
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In a very short period of time we'd be out of fish and rest with this attitudes,plastic everywhere,no words to describe such actions.
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Is it just me or does it sound worse than it actually is? Scientifically speaking.
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The Japanese people will pay the price for their government's decision. 


Many countries have banned seafood imports from Japan
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Why am I not surprised by that?
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