Fukushima nuclear plant starts 3rd release of treated radioactive wastewater into sea

Just another 50 years to go.

Agreed. This needs to be strictly monitored, even if it costs money.

Give TEPCO an inch and they'll take a mile. Trust should not come into it.

Why are the pipes blue? I thought that was not for potable water.

Blue = potable water

More Nuclear Poison Into The Pacific Ocean!

How Many Times Each Year?

For How Many Years?

About Twelve Times A Year!!

For Forty Years!!!

Or ! More !! Than !!! Forty!!!!

Reminds me of Minamata. Everything seems happy, safe, and under control... until newborns die at birth and diseases can't be hidden anymore.

Reminds me of Minamata. Everything seems happy, safe, and under control... until newborns die at birth and diseases can't be hidden anymore.

How do you sleep at night or remain living in this country? There is no comparison between the Minamata incident and the release of the wastewater.

but some scientists say the continuing release is unprecedented and should be monitored closely.

Yes it is unprecedented, and yes it is being monitored closely by the Japanese government and the IAEA. Japan is handling this correctly, and the operation is going to plan.

China and Russia will continue to stomp their political feet like spoiled authoritarian brats, however.

nandakandamandaToday 03:45 pm JST

Agreed. This needs to be strictly monitored, even if it costs money.

Give TEPCO an inch and they'll take a mile. Trust should not come into it.

Per the above, yes it is being strictly monitored. Even if people don't trust TEPCO (which is understandable), or the Japanese government, if there are any problems we will hear about them via the IAEA.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded that if the release is carried out as planned, it would have a negligible impact on the environment, marine life and human health. IAEA mission officials said last month they were reassured by the smooth operation so far.

What do the experts on environment, marine life and human health say?

“Fukushima nuclear plant” does not start anything. This is just a ruse to divert the attention away from TEPCO. Title should be changed.

Anyway, it’s the only sensible thing they can do, treat it, dilute it and release it.

strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries including South Korea, where hundreds of people staged protests. China immediately banned all imports of Japanese seafood,

1) Fishing groups in Japan are opposed because of income loss.

2)South Korea is not opposed to the releases. Only a number of anti-nuclear people and anmt-anything Japan people staged protests.

3) China is the only country to ban all seafood from Japan causing (1) above, despite the views of other nations and the IAEA's position. This despite China being a member of the IAEA since 1984. China's action is nothing more than a retaliation against Japan's ban on semi conductor chips to China.

I got some minus points above so perhaps I should explain. The two workers who got splashed with radioactive waste water were said to have been splashed with 100 ml, but after a week Tepco has admitted it was actually ten times that amount.

OK, it is a very small difference in the overall scale of things, but is this not another case of minimizing things, when the simple truth could really have helped gain some solid respect from the world?

Link then. The two were actually splashed with:　"Several tens of times more" than was admitted at first.

作業員が浴びた汚染水、実際は“数十倍”　福島第一原発、東電が訂正｜TBS NEWS DIG - YouTube

Or NHK if you prefer.

福島第一原発 廃液かかるトラブル“飛散した量 公表の数十倍” | NHK | 福島第一原発 2023年10月30日 21時15分 

(Not sure why we cannot paste urls any more.)

The water is treated to remove as much radioactivity as possible then greatly diluted with seawater before it is released. TEPCO and the government say the process is safe, but some scientists say the continuing release is unprecedented and should be monitored closely.

That isn't true. We have 50 yrs of China releasing higher levels of dirty waste water from many different nuclear power plants along their coast. It still continues today.

I trust Japan many, many, times more to handle this as safely as possible.

We have 50 yrs of China releasing higher levels of dirty waste water 

Please refrain from comparing the releases of contaminated water from Fukushima to other nuclear waste releases.

The water from Fukushima has been in contact with the fuel rods, and it contains a variety of radioactive isotopes, including tritium, iodine-131, caesium-137, and strontium-90.

These isotopes can be harmful to human health and the environment, even if they are diluted.

Average concentrations of radioactive elements in Fukushima waste water, before dilution:

Tritium: 1500 Bq/L

Carbon-14: 1.1 Bq/L

Strontium-90: 0.005 Bq/L

Cesium-137: 0.0006 Bq/L

etc...

The source is the IAEA report "Safety of the planned discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the sea" (2022)

in the shade of deception of Japan's government and TEPCO who emphasizing only tritium to pretend as if it's same to not-wrecked nuclear plants' drainage, many kinds of radioactivity such as iodine129, strontium90, ruthenium106, technetium99, cesium137, plutonium239, carbon14 or cadmium113 are dumped into the ocean.

Its radioactivity's total amount is not yet clear.

That's not the point I'm trying to get.

They force it to be in the standards by diluting to reach that numbers.

Point being is that Fukushima waste is not comparable to any other waste in the world.

Has more harmful radioactive isotopes than anyone.

TEPCO and the government say the process is safe, but some scientists say the continuing release is unprecedented and should be monitored closely.

They say this as if Japan has been demanding no one monitors it....LMAO

iodine-131, caesium-137, and strontium-90.

These isotopes can be harmful to human health and the environment, even if they are diluted.

Aren't these the isotopes that have been filtered out leaving only tritium?

lunaticToday 12:27 am JST

Please refrain from comparing the releases of contaminated water from Fukushima to other nuclear waste releases.

The water from Fukushima has been in contact with the fuel rods, and it contains a variety of radioactive isotopes, including tritium, iodine-131, caesium-137, and strontium-90.

These isotopes can be harmful to human health and the environment, even if they are diluted.

And still people are trying with this false line. As stated many times, ALPS removes/reduces to save levels everything apart from Tritium. The remaining Tritium is somewhere below one-sixth of the WHO's drinking water standard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66610977

The IAEA, which has a permanent office at Fukushima, said an "independent, on-site analysis" had shown that the tritium concentration in the water discharged was "far below the operational limit of 1,500 becquerels per litre (Bq/L)".

That limit is six times less than the World Health Organization's limit for drinking water, which is at 10,000 Bq/L, a measure of radioactivity.

Hideomi KuzeToday 03:00 am JST

in the shade of deception of Japan's government and TEPCO who emphasizing only tritium to pretend as if it's same to not-wrecked nuclear plants' drainage, many kinds of radioactivity such as iodine129, strontium90, ruthenium106, technetium99, cesium137, plutonium239, carbon14 or cadmium113 are dumped into the ocean.

And, rather unsurprisingly, you're back again spouting this false propaganda. It's been debunked by me and many others, many times.

Though I'm sure you'll be back for the next article too, so I'll be back to call you out again.

My dog, why cannot people understand? Tritium is released into the oceans by all countries nuclear plants the world over. Tritium is in our atmosphere, it is in rainfall, and indeed, already in every ocean. There are no protests when other countries do it...Why?

There are no protests when other countries do it...Why?

Simple. Because it doesn't align with their politics and doesn't play well for the "home audience" who will never see reasonable people think through actual facts and comes to reasonable choices.

I'm not against monitoring. I am against fear creation over nothing. All the Japanese fishermen in the area can take sample fish and pay for testing, if they like. Nothing wrong with that. Would love to see a group of news outlets pay for the same. If the TV, Radio, Internet, and Newspapers all grouped their money to run unbiased tests, that would be useful information too.

Heck, China can take samples in international waters if they are so afraid, but that doesn't fit their desired anti-Japan narrative, so they won't. It isn't like the Chinese Coast Guard is doing anything useful, after all. Put them to work gathering samples and providing honest reporting for once. All the other neighbors can do the same, in international waters.

Alas, complaining is easier than actually doing something to gather facts.