How Dangerous is the Waste Water Planned to Be Released from Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Complex?
According to the experts getting a CT scan is more dangerous than Japan’s plan to released filtered waste water into the nearby ocean:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, second left, arrives to inspect the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Futaba, northeastern Japan, on July 5, 2023. (Hiro Komae, Pool)
The contaminated water that had been stored will be treated to remove most of the radioactive materials except for tritium (more on that below).
The wastewater will be diluted to 1,500 becquerels – a unit of radioactivity – of tritium per liter of clean water. For comparison, Japan’s regulatory limit allows a maximum of 60,000 becquerels per liter, while the World Health Organization allows 10,000. That means the concentration of tritium will be “far below” international regulatory standards, according to the Japanese government.
The water will then be released through an underwater tunnel about 3,280 feet (one kilometer) from the coast of Japan, away from areas where fishing routinely takes place. The process is expected to take 30 years or longer.
What is tritium?
Tritium is a form of hydrogen with two extra neutrons and it emits low levels of radiation. Like hydrogen, it combines easily with oxygen to form water, or in this case “tritiated water,” which is difficult to distinguish from ordinary water.
We’re actually exposed to small amounts of tritium every day, because it exists in tap water, in the rain and in the air.
In fact, tritium is already being discharged into rivers and oceans from other nuclear facilities around the world at higher concentrations than the treated water that is set to be released from Fukushima, said Tony Irwin, nuclear energy expert and honorary associate professor at the Australian National University. Facilities in China, South Korea, Taiwan, France, the United States and elsewhere release treated water that contains tritium, within regulatory standards.
“We go and have a CT scan or something like that, and you get multiple times the radiation doses without any harm,” Irwin said. “Low levels are no problem. Very high levels are a problem. But the sort of levels we’re talking about with this discharge are negligible.”
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You can read more at the link, but are all the people protesting this waste water release going to start protesting against other nations like China that release far more waste water into the environment? Better yet are they going to start protesting hospitals for giving out CT scans with even more radiation?
Chinese buildings are more dangerous than Japanese radiation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvcDkEdGGZ8
Again, these findings that GI Korea is quoting are the write-up by the IAEA – an organization that is a Pro-Nuclear power and does not want anything to harm its goal of spreading nuclear energy. The accident at Fukushima, was a terrible blow to the Organization in 2011, when many nations decided to get rid of nuclear power plants. The IAEA has to underplay the nuclear disaster.
Let me ask the IAEA, what they say about produce including fruits, vegetables, and rice grown around Fukushima, whether they are safe to eat or not. The Japanese government says they are safe to eat, even after the 4 nuclear meltdowns. The Japanese government also made the former residents of Fukushima who fled the area, to move back to the heavily radioactive area – a show of inhumane callous act. Then this IAEA chimes in with the Japanese government and they say it’s safe to eat all the food grown in the middle of the apocalypse. That tells everything about their agenda supporting the Japanese government. When the Chernylbol accident happened in Russia in 1986, Japan immediately banned all agricultural products grown in Russia and not just around Chernylbol. Then why isn’t foods grown in Chernylbol not safe to eat?
“When the Chernylbol accident happened in Russia in 1986, Japan immediately banned all agricultural products grown in Russia”
That explains the war.
My map says Chernobyl is currently in Ukraine.
Like a noble native American, the Russians are just trying to get their stolen land back.
CH, I’m amazed at how bad these latest chinabots are at the game. Not even ChatGPT-level foolishness.
They really should sign up for your course of instruction before the price goes up.
Right now they’re doing worse than Chongqing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PAeblWlgrU
Chernobyl and Fukushima are different cases.
For Chernobyl, the reactor core exploded taking off the top of the reactor, and the roof of the reactor building resulting in the spread of radioactive materials over an wide area.
Fukushima on the other hand, had the reactor cores melt because of a lack of coolant resulting in the cores burning through the reactors but eventually settling on the floor of but not penetrating the containtment building.
The main radioactivity problem with Fukushima, among several, is the water needed to keep the melted cores cool which becomes radioactive and the groundwater which flows into the damaged reactor buildings which also becomes radioactive.
We know what is happening with the above mentioned water, so I won’t go into detail.
The main question is not whether or not the water is safe, but will TEPCO stick to its plan and not be tempted to cut corners and dump untreated and undiluted radioactive water into the sea.
We are talking about the establishment that tried to prevent the plant manager from flooding the reactors with seawater because they obviously wanted to save the billion dollars or more investment, among others.
Homage to Yoshida Masao, the Man Who Saved Japan | Nippon.com
Well that article explains why the Japanese hoes look at me funny when I ask for some of that Fukushima 69.
@Korean Man, the excerpt I posted includes information from Tony Irwin, nuclear energy expert and honorary associate professor at the Australian National University. Like TOK said the real issue is making sure TEPCO sticks to the plan which is why the IAEA will have an office at Fukushima to monitor the water dumping. If South Korea is so concerned then they should have one of their nuclear expert help staff the IAEA office at Fukushima.
Also if you have Netflix I highly recommend watching the The Days which goes into great detail about the actions, often heroic of the people on the ground during the Fukushima disaster which Mr. Yoshida is a central character.
Finally, in Japan fruits and vegetables from Fukushima prefecture are regularly sold. Fukushima prefecture is large and the vast majority has no radiation concerns. The only area with immediate radiation concerns is immediately around the plant. For example they have had to cut down trees for fear of leaves shedding and spreading radiation.
GI Korea, it’s all a matter of trust. I don’t trust a single thing the Japanese government says when they have everything they can, including passing 2013 anti-media laws to prevent truthful reporting on the disaster. Even Reporters without Borders agree with me as they admonished the Japanese government for pressuring their media to tow the government line.
https://rsf.org/en/rsf-urges-japan-stop-pressuring-media-fukushima-related-topics
A government that continues to suppress the truth and a Japanese press that is now impotent to guard the truth, gives me no confidence as to why anyone should believe what they say.
As I mentioned, IAEA is not a non-partial third-party entity. I doubt they will be monitoring anything other than giving lip service. Why not have GreenPeace have the office there instead?
Again, you’re using the nuclear energy proponent, part of the IAEA group as a third party non-partial scientist. His wiki page states:
He is clearly another nuclear power advocate, advocating for building new nuclear power plants.
Why doesn’t Japan, IAEA, confer with non-partial, third-party scientists to go and examine what’s really going on at Fukushima? Why do they continue to use the people and mouthpieces they hire who fit their agenda?
GI Korea, it’s all a matter of trust. I don’t trust a single thing the Japanese government says when they have a bad habit of not coming clean on anything. They even passed a 2013 anti-media law to prevent truthful reporting on the disaster. Even Reporters without Borders agree with me as they admonished the Japanese government for pressuring their media to tow the government line.
rsf.org/en/rsf-urges-japan-stop-pressuring-media-fukushima-related-topics
A government that continues to suppress the truth and a Japanese press that is now impotent to guard the truth, gives me no confidence as to why anyone should believe what Japan says is really true.
>why the IAEA will have an office at Fukushima to monitor the water dumping
As I mentioned, IAEA is not a non-partial third-party entity. I doubt they will be monitoring anything other than giving lip service. Why not have GreenPeace have the office there instead?
>Tony Irwin, nuclear energy expert and honorary associate professor at the Australian National University.
Again, you’re using the nuclear energy proponent, part of the IAEA group as a third party non-partial scientist. His wiki page states that he is a “nuclear power advocate, who is an advocate for nuclear power in Australia“:
He is clearly another nuclear power advocate, advocating for building new nuclear power plants, part of the IAEA establishment.
Why doesn’t Japan, IAEA, confer with non-partial, third-party scientists to go and examine what’s really going on at Fukushima? Why do they continue to use the people and mouthpieces they hire who fit their agenda?
Korea Man is making progress.
He has realized the science is pretty established and hard to argue against so now his objections are a matter of trust in the Japanese.
Now, I suddenly agree with him.
The Japanese are notorious for doing the wrong thing and then sumimasening you to death.
There needs to be a couple of crafty Korean nationalists looking out for Korean interests that can’t be influenced by all the thing globalists and corporations like to dangle when they want their way.
Where do you even see that? The science that is pushed by Japan and IAEA hired guns? Where do I even see that?
Here’s the real science research on this topic, written by a real scientist from the UK University of Plymouth, who warns that more research is needed to investigate the risks tritium poses to the marine food chain. Jha’s laboratory experiments suggest tritium can accumulate in the tissues of shellfish such as mussels and oysters, but there is little known about the real-world impact of real world-exposure, he says. So there hasn’t even been any research work done on this, but they’re already promising no harm will be done?
This is a real scientific paper, not garbage propaganda by hired guns.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723014328
Proposed limits ln Bequerels per 0.1 liter of drinking water (as per your cited paper)
Organisation/Country
Tritium concentration limit (Bq L−1)
Canada Nuclear Safety Commission 7000
United States EPA 740
World Health Organization 10,000
Australia 76,100
Canada 7000
EU 10,000
Finland 30,000
Russia 7700
Switzerland 10,000
Fukushima water:
“The concentration of tritium in the wastewater will be 1500 Bequerels per litre, about 7 times lower than the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit for tritium in drinking water.”
Korea’s job is not to complain about imaginary science. Korea’s job is to make sure Japan complies with actual science.
Business Idea: Because the tritium in tritiated water acts just like a hydrogen atom, it is really hard to recognize and remove a tritiated water from actual water. Figure out how to do that and get rich.
As stated in the research paper,
“Tritium studies in aquatic mammals are scarce, and fish represents the main source of data available for vertebrates”.
Yet everyone here is sure there will be no harm. So then what about the issue of discharges made by nuclear plants in other countries? The big difference is they didn’t go under a total nuclear-uncontrolled meltdown like Fukushima did, due to greed, arrogance, incompetence, and coverups. Incomparable.
Korean Man,
The Setnaffarians aren’t interested in hearing your case.
They do not care that the Japanese will be dumping radioactive water into the Pacific.
They only care that Yoon made statements supporting the Japanese dumping of the radioactive water and if his opponents prove that it isn’t safe it will undercut Yoon or worse lead to his impeachment, which is their nightmare scenario.
Heck, the Setnaffarians don’t even like the Japanese.
The point is being missed.
The level of tritium in the released water is not very high and will quickly reduce down to the level of background radiation.
You might as well go outside and yell at the clouds… or the cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere above the clouds.
What you should be concentrating on is monitoring the Japanese to ensure they are releasing tritiated water at the level they claim.
But in typical anti-Korea chinkbot fashion, you are intentionally focusing on something that isn’t going to change (releasing tritiated water) and avoiding an important aspect that can change if nobody is looking (is the level of tritium safe).
You always seem to be anti-Korean.
…or maybe you are just stupid.
Both?
Today, Yoon requested that Japan share real-time monitoring information on the water discharge as well as the presence of Korean experts.
If everything is on the up-and-up, Japan should agree.
Then it becomes an issue of trusting Korean experts.
If Japan refuses, then it is reasonable to look more closely.
It is super easy to drop some sensor systems in international waters around Fukushima, with consideration of tide and current patterns, and monitor the radiation level.
The radiation from tritium is super low-energy and its reach is measured in millimeters in air.
As tritium combines with oxygen to make tritiated water, drinking it gets it in contact with DNA. The solution is to drink and pee a lot and replace most of it.
STOP Waste water from Japan
Discover the true fact which people want to hind: History sin for those country, government, political party, organization, scientist, people, press and individual support Japan to release the waste water into ocean or not take complain against this responsible action. Everyone have freedom of speech to criticize them and they should be obligate to be punished and sued in the future after reading the following article.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186677021/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-wastewater-release
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66106162
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/asia/japan-fukushima-wastewater-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html