After 12-hour meeting, Japan, S Korea agree on visit by experts to Fukushima nuclear plant

To really ensure safety for the public they should have a fine dine with Fukushima delicacy from that region, including water or they just make a tour and meeting. Decide everything safe for public?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/12-years-after-Fukushima-Japan-prepares-to-release-wastewater

The Korean experts can come and have a look but it's not going to change anything. The water will still be released into the Pacific regardless of what the Korean experts say. This has been the plan since the first water storage tank was put in place over a decade ago.

The Fukushima nuclear power plant's dealing with radioactive water to store it in tanks built one after another reminds me of a school song we sang some 73 years ago.

A goose wanted to cross a stream but the flow was swift and strong; the goose hit upon an idea and so began swallowing the water.

Did it solve the problem?

Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima remind us that power generation by nuclear is not so cheap and economical after all as entrepreneurs think.

Raising safety concerns by a handful of local fishermen and some Pacific Islanders, will make no difference to the subservient Japanese government and public, the nuclear waste will be dumped into the ocean as planned.

From the article:

Asked whether Seoul would consider lifting its import ban on seafood from Fukushima if it determines Japan’s water release plan is safe, Park replied “absolutely not,” 

And there you have it.

Ethnocentrism and politics keeps humanity no better than insects.

We deserve to be extinct, since people of science and rational thought are excluded from influence.

controversial release of treated but radioactive water into the sea.

treated but radioactive? Good luck with Strontium and your bones.

does japan have experts that are not working for TEPCO, LDP, Todai etc?

What are we going to do with all of the decommissioned power plants waste ( as so many are/have) reached there end of life usage? Where and what are we going to do with radioactive material? Just how many nuclear power plants are there around the world?

439 reactors, in 170 plants in 30 countries. The USA has the most reactors 91.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations

Japan does not have a storage site for the millions of tons of nuclear waste from Fukushima and millions more from the decommissioning of 20 reactors.

IAEA exists for the purpose of promoting nuclear energy, come what may.

Nuclear power was hyped as the energy of the future and so nuclear power plants were built everywhere like bamboos shooting after rain. 

Road signs in Futabamachi, a town nearest to Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant read: "Nuclear Power -- Energy of the Bright Future".

But people had forgotten about what to do with nuclear wastes. It was like building homes without sewage disposal systems.

Good idea, trust but verify. Transparency always at the heart of trust building. If Japan's serious about SK relations, more steps like this KEY!

The double-standard of Japan backfires. S. Korea is doing exactly what Japan did 30 years ago.

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

Most of the people against the release of the water clearly have zero knowledge of how radioactivity works. The water being released is cleaner than any water around the coast of Japan. It’s just ignorance.

Radiation piles up damaging your body, it takes decades to notice it's effects.

You , and your kids, must take every precaution to stay away from it.

Keep in mind that Fukushima is the worst meltdown in human history.

A 12 hour meeting?

The problem with this is, the water will continue to be released for decades until the plant is fully decommissioned. At this point they still have no idea how they are going to deal with and store the melted fuel rods. It could take a century for them to figure it out, if they ever do. That means this water will be flowing into the ocean indefinitely. One group states it only contains tritium but other groups state it contains much more deadly isotopes due to poor filtering techniques. I support the Koreans being able to inspect the plant and the procedure for releasing the water. However, I have serious doubts on the transparency of the Japanese officials. No doubt the Korean visitors will be on a strictly guided tour and will not be able to conduct any of their own studies. Furthermore, what will happen if the Koreans reject the plan even more sternly based on their findings during the tour? Japan will not change their plans just because a few Koreans officials deem it unsafe. This could very easily blow up in Japan’s face and cause more trouble than it is attempting to resolve.

If the discharge is under the guidance and approval of the IAEA, Japan should go ahead. If SK want to continue banning imports from Japan despite this, good let them.

South Korea’s Kori facility near its second largest city released 50 trillion Bq in 2018ーmore than double Japan’s plan. Perhaps Japan should demand an IAEA investigation and threaten banning SK seaford imports.

"In South Korea, one of the world’s most prominent nuclear energy countries, the nuclear power facilities have been regularly releasing tritium-infused wastewater into the sea near the city of Pusan (Busan), which is famed for its seafood products. Noting that fact, nuclear power experts find Seoul’s opposition “lacks any scientific basis.”

It's this kind of one-sided argumentative SK attitude that obstructs President Yoon's agenda of improving SK/JPN ties.

South Korea’s Kori facility near its second largest city released 50 trillion Bq in 2018

Any source to your claim?

Looks like yet another made-up J-propaganda.

It doesn’t matter how much or who does it.

It matters that radioactive substances concentrate in the environment and that means in human bodies too!

Looks like yet another made-up J-propaganda.

I cannot find the Japanese data, the IAEA doesn't have any.

The most I found is some numbers from the NRA, but they are in kBq.

The relationship between dose (in mSv) and activity (in Bq or kBq) depends on the type of radiation emitted by the source, the energy of the radiation, the distance from the source, and the duration of exposure.

Not surprisingly the Japanese data is obscure and unreliable.

Please stop comparing J-numbers with Western numbers... We don't have the Japanese half.

Tritium does not accumulate or concentrate in the human body. Also not in fish.

While this affirmation is true. The reality is more complex than that.

The tritium exposure from consuming fish is, in the long-term, accumulation of low doses of radiation, which can increase the risk of cancer and other health effects over time.

South Korea’s Kori facility near its second largest city released 50 trillion Bq in 2018ーmore than double Japan’s plan.

If IAEA has the Korean release numbers, they should also have the Japanese ones.

But they don't.

Aint you curious about that?

The amount of tritium stored at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP is approximately 1,000 trillion Bq.

Problems of Discharging ALPS Treated Water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the Sea

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In Japan, although there are no legal restrictions on the total amount of radioactive

materials that can be released, the guidelines of the former Nuclear Safety Commission81

had prescribed a target value—an effective dose of 0.05 mSv/year—for the dose received

by the public around facilities as a result of the release of radioactive materials. To meet

this dose target value, nuclear facilities have established their operational target value for the annual discharge of radioactive materials.82 In the case of tritium, an "operational

standard value for discharge" is set only for liquid wastes, such as 220 trillion Bq/year by

Takahama NPP, 170 trillion Bq/year by Ooi NPP, and 110 trillion Bq/year by Kawauchi

NPP.83

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/view/prepareDownload?itemId=info:ndljp/pid/12767428

China and South Korea, Too, Release Nuclear Plant Wastewater Into the Oceans

China’s Fuqing plant released 52 trillion Bq of tritium in 2020, and South Korea’s Kori facility near its second largest city released 50 trillion Bq in 2018ーmore than double Japan’s plan.

https://japan-forward.com/china-and-south-korea-too-release-nuclear-plant-wastewater-into-the-oceans/

This is getting even more interesting.

Even China is submitting the numbers... probably fake numbers, but there they are.

Only This Is Japan is Not giving up any.

In 2018, France discharged 11,400 trillion Bq of Tritium liquid from its La Hague fuel reprocessing plant. And about 60 trillion Bq into the atmosphere.

For the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant of Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited, the operational target value for discharge of tritium is 1,000 trillion Bq/year and 9,700 trillion Bq/year for gases and liquids, respectively.

Can imagine how that meeting went…You’re are allowed to say good things but nothing bad? You aren’t allowed to investigate any irregularities or any of the dodgy sections…actually you can stay in Tokyo and we will show you a video recording of the site…

Japan has been spreading radioactive material with chemtrails from planes for years.

If some people can claim crazy stuff, we should all be able to.