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South Korean officials say Seoul will not consider lifting its import ban on seafood from Fukushima even if it determines Japan’s water release plan is safe…

There ya go. That tells you everything you need to know.

In other words, South Korea cannot trust the IAEA's scientific basis, and Japan can't trust it even more. Same with mad cow disease.

It would be useless to explain the scientific basis, ocean currents, and the nature of tritium.

It is a waste of time.

The Democratic party's pledge after they take back the president's office is to ban Japanese sea food import from the entire Pacific side after Japan starts dumping Fukushima radioactive water.

Currently Japanese seafood import from Chiba to Aomori is banned, the ban will expand from Hokkaido all the way to Okinawa under the Democratic party's plan.

TEPCO is annihilating the fishery industry.

I would force TEPCO to suck it up and keep all that water for centuries and millennials.

millennial

1.

denoting or relating to a period of a thousand years.

"the current increase in hurricanes is only a small fluctuation within this longer millennial cycle"

2.

relating to or denoting people born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s.

lunaticToday  02:05 pm JST

I would force TEPCO to suck it up and keep all that water for centuries and millennials.

Only a lunatic would want that.

Why keeping the radioactive water is not an option?

TEPCO must handle it's own waste without harming other peoples lives.

To damage oceans and fishery and international relations is not an option.

Because containment degrades

Nothing that money can't solve. Will be certainly cheaper than all the damages they will cause dumping the waste.

They will not be damaged by the radioactivity, they will be damaged by toxic publicity.

There will be damage. We finally agree in something.

Money can solve earthquakes and tsunami?

Not me, but TEPCO concluded that place is safe enough to build 4 nuclear plants.

They can probably find a safe place in the Fukushima region.

I've heard the land is very cheap around there.

Of course there will be [...] damage.

Nobody asked for radioactive waste in their coasts.

TEPCO itself should suck it in.

They didn't share their profits when they were selling the electricity, Why do we need to help them?

So in order to justify your imaginary "infinite waste water storage" we should believe TEPCO on that one, even though it was demonstrably wrong?

No. Of course they were wrong, are wrong now, and their plan will go awfully wrong.

They have massive amounts of cheap land in Fukushima they can use to store their own mess.

By the way, you are aware that the main shareholders of TEPCO are, by proxy, all of us?

Why are you saying that nonsense. TEPCO is a private company with its shareholders. We are just clients paying overinflated electric bills.

51% of TEPCO is owned by the government i.e. the taxpayer. Part of our monthly power bills goes to pay for the nuclear disaster.

They didn't share their profits when they were selling the electricity,

Not strictly true. They provided cheaper electricity for decades and few complained then.

Roy SophveasonToday  04:34 pm JST

By the way, you are aware that the main shareholders of TEPCO are, by proxy, all of us?

Even as proxies, individual taxpayers aren't TEPCO shareholders. Naive statement that's a platitude.

its shareholders. We are just clients paying overinflated electric bills.

The shareholders! Yes! Now we're gettin somewhere!

> 51% of TEPCO is owned by the government i.e. the taxpayer.

Yeah we can count. Tell us somethin we havent heard alredy. Like how much extra the 49 % owner half pays out of all those profit years?

Better yet,

Not strictly true. They provided cheaper electricity for decades and few complained then.

Cheap?? How come all those cheaper decades prices, always go up… only one way.

Prices never go down. You dont actually believe these guys? Like as if they are ever gonna drop prices and share Loot with the 51% half times are good again. LOL

Tepco paid stockholder dividends before the tsunami. You could have shared in the profits.

If someone is entrenched in patently false science and conspiracies, there is nowhere to go. The truth comes knocking at your door, and you tell it to go away.

In the first place, the IAEA recommended the method of flowing treated water into the Pacific Ocean, and the IAEA also guarantees the scientific basis.

And in the event of a release, the first country to be affected by ocean currents would be the United States, not the complaining China, Russia, or South Korea.

South Korea dares to report the treated water as contaminated water, fueling anti-Japan sentiment.

And their own Tsukishima nuclear power plant is pouring untreated contaminated water, but no South Korean media outlets actively report on this.

The reason South Korea does not import marine products from Fukushima and the Pacific coastal areas is to fuel harmful rumors, but why is it also banning imports from prefectures with no sea such as Gunma Prefecture?

In the first place, the IAEA recommended the method of flowing treated water into the Pacific Ocean, and the IAEA also guarantees the scientific basis.

That's a misconception we cannot let spread.

The IAEA never recommended anything to anyone.

IAEA reports raise many questions about transparency. Being the prohibition to take samples on site the most exhorted.

The IAEA haven't released their last report yet, so we don't know their stance at this point.

People around the world are not, and were not so much rational. Many people still believe the God. Of course, Japan is not exceptional:

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

BTW, there has been no single report of damage of marine life or human consuming it around the world ever since the nuclear power was introduced. The threat of radioactive water has been greatly exaggerated around the world. Releasing the contaminated water in Fukushima after treatment is the safest method at the present: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/09/12/its-really-ok-if-japan-dumps-radioactive-fukushima-water-into-the-ocean/

Why risk it?!

The international relations of Japan are more important than a careless private company.

Force TEPCO to be 100% transparent, let anyone take samples anywhere.

And get a real filter, not the ALPS, but one that really filters tritium.

The November 2022 IAEA review on the safety of ALPS-treated water will be based on the terms of reference (TOR) on the framework of comprehensive cooperation on the handling of ALPS-treated water signed with the IAEA in July 2021. This is the second time this has been done. The IAEA review is conducted by an IAEA task force consisting of IAEA staff and international experts, a specialized agency in the field of nuclear energy.

The report published this time mainly describes the views of the review conducted in November 2022 based on international safety standards.

(Reference) The IAEA Task Force includes international experts from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, South Korea, the Marshall Islands, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.

After that, on May 5, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report on the safety of treated water from Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. This is the second time the report has been submitted, and it was assessed that progress had been made based on the points pointed out in the previous report, and that there was no need for additional verification. A final report will be finalized in the next few months.

In November 2022, a team of IAEA officials and international experts verified its safety. In the first meeting in February of the same year, it included that the impact on humans associated with the discharge of treated water into the ocean was "very low."

Korean experts are also included, but only Koreans are making a fuss about low transparency and lack of fairness.

lunaticToday  01:53 am JST

Why risk it?!

And get a real filter, not the ALPS, but one that really filters tritium.

Good point.

Since we know the earth is flat, the 'theory" of ocean currents is just a theory. As the flat earth turns in a circle counter-clockwise the water will turn clockwise and keep increasing concentration, picking up more tritium.

It could be thousands of years before the concentration is low enough for life to return to the Pacific.

I should have given more accurate explanations:

To store the water in a safe area in Fukushima you would  package it in industrial columns with Dixon rings.

Industrial Tritium filter providers: Croft Filters, from UK. Veolia, from USA. NucleanTech, from Spain. etc.

Much of the land around the nuclear disaster site has been used to store millions of tons of collected contaminated debris. Easily be seen on Google Maps.

Or, and hear me out here because it's a wild idea: We could dilute the waste water with lots of sea

You are making a lot of people angry by doing it.

The international relations of Japan are more important than a careless private company.

Why risk it?!

Here's the way to keep everyone happy:

Force TEPCO to be 100% transparent, let anyone take samples anywhere.

And get a real filter, not the ALPS, but one that really filters tritium.

If you do not spill any waste, and you are 100% transparent.

What arguments will anyone have left to complain about?

Did you check the 3 companies that offer industrial Tritium filters?

I've been myself absorbing many scientific papers and technical specifications about Tritium filtering.