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SJ
@Bobby
You seem to believe Japanese are better than Koreans, but the fact is as follows:
Japan demanded a permanent halt to the dumping, but Moscow said it has nowhere to store the waste, mostly low-radiation cleansing fluid and coolant from a ship-repair facility near Vladivostok for its aging fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.
A Japanese government study last year found that Russia’s previous ocean dumping had had no effect on Japan or the surrounding marine environment.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-19-mn-47464-story.html
SJ
Some Japanese seem very forgetful.
Japan Suspends Import of French Mushrooms
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-26-mn-945-story.html
Bobby
Koreans cannot even acknowledge scientific facts that are unacceptable to Koreans no matter how long they last. That is why they are a miserable people who still cannot win a single Nobel Prize.
SJ
I am eager to drink a highball of Suntory Whisky Toki with the Fukushima water.
Hiro S Nobumasa
I believe the water is safe so it should not be wasted and dumped into the sea by the Japanese government.
Instead it should be added to the water supply system and to the water reservoir so that the Japanese people will be able to utilize it for drinking, cooking and watering the farms.
Aaron J
@roy Sophveason
It’s obvious you’ve have actually been paying attention.
This isn’t anything new for Nuclear Power generation and similar Nuclear industries. It’s just the massive scale of the discharges and the scrutiny. Plenty of nuclear plants discharge radwaste water after treatment.
wanderlust
Will the mandatory brown envelopes contain Japanese Yen or Korean Won?
kurisupisu
If the water is so safe, why not can it and drink like soda?
lunatic
TEPCO's intentions are driven in good faith and purity.
We can totally trust they'll do the best for us, above any economical or political interest.
lunatic
I made my point clear so long ago.
Today the J-Gov is just reinforcing my argument:
I would be very surprised if AIEA accept this conditions.
Hikikomorii
Is it bad to pee on the pool, Japan?
Rodney
Scientifically impossible to lie about the dangerous effects of these radionuclides so it means it’s politics
Samit Basu
@Roy Sophveason
ALPS doesn't work as advertised and processed water still contains plutonium, cesium, etc.
This is why Japan's neighbors are dead opposed against Japan releasing Fukushima water, because the only way to get rid of heavy radioactive material is through evaporation.
Sanjinosebleed
Good luck!
Samit Basu
@ReasonandWisdomNipponToday
Korean public wants Japan to adapt Korea's nuclear-powered evaporation technology, which Korea offered to provide to Japan but Japan refused.
This is a modified version of Korea's small nuclear desalination plant currently under development for Saudi Arabia, which can evaporate Fukushima's radioactive water to collect radioactive materials residue to be disposed of.
While this may sound strange to the Japanese, Korea is decades ahead of Japan in various form of nuclear technology, including a Supercritical CO2 nuclear reactor for its nuclear submarine that enables 10% enriched uranium fuel to last 20+ years by running much cooler than traditional nuclear reactors, nuclear fusion reactor where Korea is the only country on earth able to sustain hydrogen ion plasma at fusion temperature(100 million K) for more than 1 second(Korea currently sustained 30 seconds last year and plans to hit 300 seconds in 2 years).
wallace
13 years is a very short time for this nuclear disaster which will last many decades. TEPCO first had to clean the debris up and lay thick steel plates around the plant to reduce the high radiation levels.
Removal of spent fuel from reactor 4, and reactor 3. Much of the work was done with remote control equipment because the radiation near the reactors is too high.
Priority was cooling the melted fuel which has created more than 1 million tons of waste water.
An independent organisation should be employed to give its best solutions.
Michael Machida
@Roy
Japan had how many years to come up with a viable solution? It's not up to anyone but the Japanese government to handle this situation, not the citizens. We do not get paid big buck for that. They all do.
Michael Machida
@SPIJ
Who paid the Scientist for their research?
masterblaster
Japanese politicians and diplomats have been buddying up with South Korean officials. I wonder if this is the real reason.
TheReds
Less harmful does not mean harmless.
Ron Sackville
Have they considered building a large offshore evaporator maybe a ship they maybe able to recover the chemical that way.
WilliaminTK
All Lies!
Of course the water is not safe and the Government is just gaslighting the whole situation. Why not just release it on the land where those town that are still off limits and unlivable. Can not use that soil anyway.
I still don’t knowingly eat anything from Tohoku farms but all restaurants are using them as it is very cheap for them to buy.
Yrral
SPU,the international community do not absorb Japanese from legal liability,this contamination is found in fishes in California
deanzaZZR
More accurately the IAEA has signed off on it, but they have a vested interest in doing so.
SPIJ
The decision has already been made to dump the water. it is just so South Korea can save face. The international community has sided with Japan on the issue.
SPIJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_waste#:~:text=SU%3A%20Soviet%20Union.-,Pacific%20Ocean,nor%20volume%20of%2056%2C261%20containers.
SPIJ
Scientists OK plan to release one million tonnes of waste water from Fukushima.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01225-2
I think Scientists are intelligent people. How about you?
SPIJ
Scientists OK plan to release one million tonnes of waste water from Fukushima
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01225-2
japancat
They need to 'Pitch ' to the whole world, because the sea belongs to us all.
Cenyuk
If the water is so safe, why release it into the ocean?
Andy
Intelligent people will never agree with dumping nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean, no matter how much you sugar coat it.
Michael Machida
I do not care how they slice and dice and fudge the numbers, this is not safe at all. Just because you say something to be true. Just because you print something to be true, does not change the minds of intelligent people.
No dice Japan.
Aly Rustom
Gov't to pitch safety of Fukushima water release to S Korean experts
hard pitch
Yrral
Reason,maybe the island of misfit reactors get their act together,maybe they would not be in this position
ReasonandWisdomNippon
What does South Korean public want??
No release of any water! doesn't matter what scientific evidence Japan has!
South Korean public, has the expectation that the Korean experts sent to Japan, will give a 100% No! To any water release!
South Korean public sees the water release at Fukushima as a bigger battle against Japan, beyond any concerned with radiation.
This is a win for Korea if the Fukushima disaster becomes a headache for Japan for another 100 years, another way for Korea to complain and cry how Japan is a terrible country.
Anything that makes Japan's day worse, South Korea, and North Korea would be equally happy and excited at Japan's misfortune.
obladi
With Japan and Korea now "best bros" I think a less conflicted second opinion might be in order
wallace
Nuclear power plants don't usually have more than 1 million tons of water in storage. This will go on for more than 40 years keeping the melted fuel cooled.
Legrande
Nuclear power plants worldwide routinely release treated water containing low-level concentrations of tritium and other radionuclides into the environment as part of normal operations, according to the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
This doesn't prove that it is a safe procedure not harmful to the environment and human health...i.e. decades later we now know that PFAS (forever chemicals) are quite harmful, and they've already permeated practically all known corners of the Earth.
Peter Neil
buchailldanaToday 07:01 am JST
I can imagine the surprise on your face when you learn that the final release will have less tritium concentration than your current water does.
SaikoPhysco
I'll bet those "experts" get heavily wined and dined before the pitch.
buchailldana
Can you imagine the scenario.
" Would you like to drink some decontaminated water?"
Sounds so tempting
dbsaiya
Dang man, you can't even convince your own people. One way Nishimura can convince them is to dump it in Tokyo Bay and have the residents accept it.