Hactivitsts attack Japanese government over Fukushima wastewater release
The water is present because the Fukushima plant creates around 100 cubic meters of wastewater per day the keep the reactor cool. Doing so exposes the water to 64 radioactive elements whose half-life range from negligible to 5,000 years, as is the case with carbon-14.
The waters are treated with an advanced liquid-processing system that the org responsible for managing the nuclear power plan, Tokyo Electric Power Company , says removes 62 of the 64 radionuclides, leaving just carbon-14 and tritium behind.[PDF] as a maximum concentration for discharge by the Japanese government.
That unit of radioactivity is one-seventh the amount designated as a maximum maximum for suitable drinking water as set by the World Health Organization. Meanwhile, the carbon-14 content of the water currently sits at two percent of the upper limit allowed by regulations. The subsequent water is stored in tanks at the site, but those vessels have limited capacity. Hence the desire to release and dilute the treated liquid by piping it 1km offshore for the next 30 to 40 years.
However safe the water seems to be, the EUTNAIOA quotes nuclear engineer Hiroaki Koide and points out that “diluting simply means spreading pollution over a large area,” putting sea life and those who consume it, in danger.
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