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- Japanese regulators are doing final inspections before giving a greenlight to the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plan to release the wastewater has faced fierce opposition, in Japan and across the region. People are even panic-buying salt.
Joining us for more context is Jim Smith, Enviromental Science Professor at the University of Portsmouth.
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If it is safe, then use it in agriculture land or household water supply
It is less radioactive than the radon gas in my cellar from the granite rock. Are you going to ban me and my city from living here?
@@simontemplar404 At least where I live, we take precautions against radon. High concentrations of Radon can cause lung cancer. Especially if it collects in a house that is not properly aerated. In my country, houses build on radon emitting rock are fitted with special ventilation, to protect the inhabitants.
For the owners of Tesco, government officials, and the nuclear industry.
Because Godzilla
The Japanese fishermen have a point. It will wreck their local fishery economy with local consumption and abroad.
If IAEA say the radioactive is safe , IAEA should recommend Japan to use the radioactive water to irrigate their farm land
If you use water used for cooling the nuclear reactors in your country, we use radioactive water in Fukushima prefecture.
you want it to evaporate and blow over the US? Fair enough i guess, its cleaner than most water.
@@user-bl4od9ru4oIt is not appropriate to make an equivalent comparison between a normally operating nuclear power plant and a nuclear power plant that has experienced an accident.
@@modu-modu Why?
Water condition is defined by that of composition.
Can you explain the difference whether it is experienced nuclear accident or not without difference of composition?
Korean should complain to China about waste of radioactive water.
@@user-bl4od9ru4oDo your homework before talking baloney here. Or maybe you just don’t want to see the truth and hope people are ignorant enough to be fooled that just because you don’t drink the nuclear contaminated water doesn’t mean it is more dangerous than toilet water. Wake up, we are not in the 1930s when people were paying money for the taste of Radithor
Give this expert guy a glass of water with tratium in it and see if he chooses to drink it with his vast depth of knowledge. Case closed
You mean..... every glass of water??? Maybe you should stop having any to be super safe - for the rest of us
@@mycosysshut up bot
So science doesn't matter to you? You hear the word radiation and you run around like a headless chicken in panic mode? Already France releases 400 times as much tritium into the English channel annually. Tritium does not accumulate in biological organisms. You need a large amount of Tritium to do biological damage.
@@mycosys For you? Who are you? We don't care about you. We care about the innocent marine life who can't defend themselves being exposed to the questionable water. We humans have hurt the oceans more than we can ever be forgiven without adding radioactive water.
@@cy4330 LOL way to tell us you dont know what tritium is, and youre a sociopath.
The treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has already been released into the ocean, but Japanese people continue to eat Fukushima marine fish as usual. 🐟🐟🦐 It's true ❢
The best way to prove that water is safe is to apply it to the production and daily life of the Japanese people. If there are no problems after 5 years , I have nothing to say about how much Japan emits😊
Perfect suggestion !
Fukushima lies！
@MachinegunJ not the politicians but us as citizens?
Who lives closest to the site of release? Japanese people! They will be eating fish from that sea in the coming years. You can see whether Japan will still be among the top countries around the world with longest life expectancy 5 years later
@@yukil7 yes but just because we are japanese who lives in japan doesn’t mean we all agree with what our government decides tho…
Do you know that this was initially a Leve 2 Accident and Japan handled it so well to make it a Level 7 accident??
Japan should handle it better. Very disappointing to see them release radioactive water into the ocean.
Once the rubbish is in the water it can never be contained
@@angelikalindenau943 Doesn't need to.
There is 500,000 times of radioactivity in the sea and it is natural which means it always has been there (Potassium-40)
Those saying it will be diluted to safe levels are right. This is just the usual fearmongering from people not knowing much about radioactivity.
I’m pretty sure they try to do the best they can. But be honestly they can’t store so much water in the future see what is going on there. I’m sure they will still working on a “ better “ solution.
their people should drink it
@@edward3190
do you drink sewer water that is released to the sea?
If its so clean why don't they use it for farms or factory usages? Or even for drinking. I really don't understand why this has to be "ONLY" option they have
Salt water can be used for farms or drinking?
@@xiuxiu1108of course
US secretary of state just said he is happy with the release and the water is 100% safe in ocean. maybe US should import the wastewater to Alaska or California so everybody will be happy and that's the proof of a great America. US save the world again, last time was in Marvel.
1st step of ALPS is removing salt content. @@xiuxiu1108
@@SCOHEN250KALPS treated water is salt water
Love the word "negligible" can mean so many different things to so many different people
He's choosing his words carefully
The only activity left in the water is from tritium at levels less than is allowable in drinking water by several orders of magnitude.
Good enough for human consumption ... well, it is nice I don't care about fish and everything else in the ocean, I mean, that would be a bummer.
Don't mind the glowing fish, sometimes it just happens 🤷♂️
Dilution 101
If its safe, Japan govt should drink it in front of the public.
Agree. Lead by example
@@user-po9oc1et3p they did the the guy disappeared
@@deangregoric4735I already heard that news................from a Chinese media.
Say goodbye to eating seafood after this. Say hello to Broccoli.🥦
What about contaminated rain water on broccoli 🥦?
Only if its deep fried in radioactive shrimp oil.
Now Gojira will come back stronger than ever.
Natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis can't be avoided, but this man-made disasters can be avoided.
But we can avoid the worst effects of natural disasters. It comes down to two different risk profiles.
The more Japan tries to cover up their criminal act, the more the world hate Japan's selfishness and irresponsible action. Keep lying Japan what a shame !!
Japan starts the discharge of a second batch of Fukushima nuclear contaminated alps into the sea on Thursday oct 5.
Another total of about 7,800 tons of nuclear will be heading into the Pacific Ocean.
The process will take 17 days meaning around 460 tons of nuclear a day to be released.
Earthquakes can be prevented and reduced to minimal damage. Just construct stronger buildings.
@@weplo1597 preventing earthquakes - that’s something new as I have never heard of anyone mastering Mother Nature!
It is sad that no country has stopped Japan's absurd behavior even after the development of human civilization
China already against , but US and western country all keep silence, sadly and terrible
Exactly, even Japan’s boss (the US) didn’t say a single things, if it was China who’s discharging nuclear waste water, I’m pretty sure US will jump and down…. 😏
only CHN and KOR, shame on all the Western and US
With U.S. permission
@@tonnywu2170US president sleepy Joe literally promoted and decided for JP instead of staying silent, and this will be the biggest achievement that he has done during his tenure👏👏
"negligible" means "not in my back yard"
Congrats on pointing out your illiteracy.
@@mycosys drink a cup of polluted water first?
@@fan2318 I wish my drinking water was this clean
@@mycosys sad for your living status
@@fan2318 for a city, my drinking water is pretty reasonable. Its Australia after all. But its still contaminated by human activity in the catchment and in the air, and by pipe leaching, and nowhere near as clean as we could make it
The politicians can drink it.. for sure it's safe.
😅😅
So in theory, we can drink the water?? But then why throw it away in the ocean!! Invite all the scientists who agrees with this and let them drink this water with their families! 😅😅
How much ocean water do you usually drink? The dose makes the poison.
Exactly! I don't see those government officials and scientists lining up to bath in that water, drink it or feed their children with those fish.
It's sea water genius.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr These dimwits are really, really wrong. They clearly just stop thinking completely at some point and ignore the fact that it will be diluted first and then diluted even more from 'negligible' to infinitesimal concentrations when it mixes with incalculable tons of sea water over the decades.
Bananas are also radioactive, i still see activists eating them daily.. Weird! No screaming and whining about that radioactivity at all!!
There are many standards for water.
Can you drink sewage-treated water?
I think you answer "No", because it is unsuitable for drinking.
That's enough to explain the reason we throw away in the ocean.
I don't why this man lie on the show, the other nuclear power station release the water to the ocean is totally different with the Japan does, the water from Japan is directly contacted with the the core of radiating material.
LOL i love that you are illiterate but think you know better than independent scientists
They really try to create real life Godzilla
My understanding it is they currently have two reactor cores that have melted into the earth and they cannot and do not have the means to safely remove it or contain it. The only solution that they have at this point is to flush it with water to keep the cores from burning out of control further than they already have. This allows for evaporation from cooling (allowing natural and steam vapors from their stop gap cooling approach and natural evaporation into the air), Since the efforts to cool the lost cores cannot be resolved the water continues to be pumped in and out into storage tanks which they do not have the capacity to deal with hence the dumping into the ocean. The other major problem is the plant is built on the edge of the ocean and not all the water that is pumped into these burning pits is recovered and God knows how much of this is leaking into the ground and then of course the ocean. My understanding is Tempco has been bankrupted by this failure and that the Japanese government had to step in to slow the damage that is being done.
The effects of this have been seen in the ocean and effects the world and they need to resolve this because the problem is bigger than anyone wants to admit. Turning the blind eye is not a solution and this is a silent and invisiblel killer of sea life, and those that eat it or swim in it. I watched ocean current model flows and the US knew the debris from the Japanese Sunami was heading to California based on these models and known currents. They where right and do you honestly think the radiation is not following the same path when introduced or leaking into the ocean. From California it then flows down the Pacific ocean seaboard to central and then south america. I do not remember where it goes east or west once it leaves the tip of south america but that is the reality of the situation based on the information I have seen and researched. This therefor should be a global effort to resolve as the ocean already has to many problems aready such a polution, eligal dumping of chemicals etc and if we do not find a solution this will effect the world as it already has.
Not so funny enough in my eyes this was an engineering over site and a big one at that. They installed the emergency backup power generators below ground level in these facilities and when they where hit by the sunami they where flooded and redered usless. Hence they lost control of these two reactors.
Please let me know if I am wrong but Solutions are needed now and this is unaceptable to the world at any level as there is their so called safe levels of release but what about what is known as the accumulative effect.
This not a solution and needs to be addressed.
This was a good read.
There is no solution that I'm aware of other than maybe flying this waste out to deep space. Half life of nuclear material is like 250k years and recorded history is only like ~10k years old.
There is no fool proof nuclear reactor, and there will be always be catastrophes because we humans aren't perfect.
It's legit irresponsible to generate nuclear power.
There are major catastrophes almost once a decade (Fukushima/Chernobyl/9mile) and that's an unacceptable rate!
Youre wrong. all of it. You dont understand anything and think you do. Burning??? Air releases??? Melted into the earth??? yikes. Its not Chernobyl bud
@@mycosys Agreed; more misinformed fear mongering.
@@mycosys
Don't be personal.
Reply with argument, please.
@@agustinussiahaan6669 what part of that is personal? they specifically said "Please let me know if I am wrong".
If it is so safe why not consume it locally
Japan’s nuclear wastewater is the nuclear wastewater containing a large amount of radioactive elements produced by their nuclear power plant accident. Have other countries’ nuclear power plants had accidents? What they discharge at most is the cooling water of the nuclear power plant. Can this be compared with the nuclear wastewater produced by the Japanese accident?
Yep, all nuclear power plants on the planet have always released this same tritiated water.
Yes, you can compare. What's in it matters, not where it's from. It's understandable to assume the water from broken plant is dirtier than the water from normally operating plants. But that's a prejudice. You have to base on the actual data, which showed the Fukushima water contains far less tritium than other plants in the world, and it's confirmed by IAEA.
@@kenw7875 But Japan’s nuclear power plant explosion was handled very poorly that year, you ask yourself again, do you really believe that the nuclear waste water discharged by the nuclear power plant that was rated as the highest level seven nuclear accident by IAEA is safe?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk But the most serious problem is that the nuclear wastewater discharged by Japan is the wastewater that was generated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company constantly pumping water into the reactor to cool it down after the explosion and core meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The core meltdown will produce a huge amount of radiation, and thus pollute those water even more. Otherwise, why didn’t they discharge it directly before, but had to wait until they ran out of space to store the nuclear wastewater to think of discharging it?And the cooling water discharged by other countries’ nuclear power plants will not touch the core, and will not carry radioactive particles, so they can even use seawater for circulation cooling. Can this be considered as the same kind of water?
@@violetevergarden5753 TEPCO never had to store it in the first place, they could have released it after treatment just like other nuclear power plants do. ALPS removes all but the tritium, so obviously your meme is incorrect.
Why don't the Japanese use "safe" water to water their crops instead?
Yeah, if it’s safe, maybe we should put it in an empty lake out of the way, see if we can grow some plants with it before flirting with more ocean disaster.
You want it in a lake where it will immediately evaporate and enter the air??? Genius.
The point of putting it deep in the sea is "defence in depth" - multiple layers of safety on safety, it is unlikely to enter the evaporation cycle in any significant amount even if something went awry. & It is being diulted at concentrations that make homeopathic preparations look strong. After already being made safe to drink.
Belt and suspenders and braces approach.
@@mycosys so put in deep sea... many bottom feed fish live there and we eat then .....genius
If it really harmless or safe, Japan can use the tritium nuclear waste water for watering the plants in japan, fill up swimming pools in japan, use for drinking water in japan, fill up fish farming in japan, etc. It TOTALLY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE if the radioactive water is safe but has to be released into the ocean. The tritium laced water should be used for Japan's domestic water consumption.
Not safe. And much more than just tritium. Japan is ☠☠☠
We all know such nuclear contaminated water is not safe. t70 billions on public relations.
From Nature magazine: ALPS treatment of the water and then release into the ocean - demonstrated to our satisfaction that it will be safe for ocean health and human health?” asks Robert Richmond, marine biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “The answer is ‘no’.”
If you eat something that’s radioactively contaminated with β-emitters, your cells inside are being exposed.”
TEPCO says fishing is not routinely conducted in an area within 3 kilometres of where the pipeline will discharge the water. But Richmond is concerned the tritium could concentrate in the food web as larger organisms eat smaller contaminated ones.
“The concept of dilution as the solution to pollution has demonstrably been shown to be false,” Richmond says. “The very chemistry of dilution is undercut by the biology of the ocean.”
LOL make sure not to eat or drink anything, or go in any buildings, cos most things are more radioactive than what theyre releasing.
Except that isn't how tritium works. As the guy said in this piece. Tritium in the form of water does not bioaccumulate. That is it does not concentrate up the food chain like mercury does.
@stormelemental13 is Tritium the ONLY radioactive element in the discharge? No. And please explain why local fishermen increasingly caught fishes that exceeded the radioactive safety levels this year.
Isolated incidents that just happened in the vicinity of the nuclear power plants in fukushima?
BTW, Not even IAEA was able to verify the 300+ ALPS tanks where the radioactive water was supposed to be purified. When a company refuses to let a third party to do basic random sampling to verify if those 300+ tanks had met the international standards, it makes people wonder what are they hiding.
IAEA latest report said the samples were safe, but the samples were taken from 10 tanks that were interlinked, I,e it was just one big sample.
Without allowing a third party to verify the claims that there are 300+ purified tanks, The public has no ways to find out if the company Tepco is lying or not. Could 900 tanks in fact be untreated? We are supposed to just trust their words.
that's as ridiculous as claiming investors see unaudited financial statements are just as safe as audited financial statements.
@@jackjhmc820 So where can one read about 'increasing amounts of caught fish that exceeded safety levels' of this year? Wait actually, do you mean increasingly this year or increasingly since a time ago? Ah and the isolated incidents?
Your claim about IAEA not being able to verify 300+ sounds concerning. Where can I read about this?
@comradeofthebalance3147 Tepco provided the data. Go to their website. IAEA only verified the filtering is up to standards and the science should be reliable for the plan to go ahead.
Japanese said their regulator would sample all the so called purifed water before dumping into the ocean. if u trust their government with 100% convictions, everything is fine.
Let's do a test. Dump 20% in Japanese inland first. In two years, if everything are well (no Godzilla), they can then dump the rest into the ocean.
*Japan🇯🇵 have islands dispute with China, Russia, South Korea.*
make border agreement & keep peace.
Sushi anybody?
Ile have the green one.
Remind me to never visit Japan for vacation
You've never heard of ocean currents? You think the water they release will stay in Japan?
@@nevarran i do, but the fact that they're going to release the radiated water for decades to come means that area is contaminated for good as the source. would i go somewhere that's least effected or the origin of something?
If it is really safe as IAEA, the professor, Japanese Gov say, why don't they dilute it, use it for their drinking water, irrigate farms, and other purposes in their land? Why must it be the Pacific Ocean that could also effect the world?? Why should the world also take the risk?
in that case, it still going to go to pacific ocean after you force innocent Japanese farmers to use it.
@@gosiakrzyzanowska592 Had Japan done that, people around the world would have trusted and supported Japan.
@@itsclee no they wouldn't. They would still say it's going into Pacific seeing as tritium does not acumulete and flows through ground water, and probably criticize Japanese government for feeding it to it's people first. "Dear Japanese people, you don't like that we're dumping the water into the ocean near by? Well too bad, we're going to feed it to you first so the World can trust us". Does your government do that?
@@gosiakrzyzanowska592 why you said force? The suggestion just because the Japan government claimed the waste water was safe, then it should be a good suggestion
@@weiwujiang6884 don't you think japanese people don't think like you do? They don't want it any more then you do so it's indeed force. And you could drink it and the next day your body wouldn't remember any tritium. But if you keep drinking it every day then it doesn't matter that tritium doesn't acumulete and it's only mildly radioactive. And Japan has 40-50 more years of cooling those reactors. .... I wish Earth had truthseekers with magical powers so when somebody claimes that sth is safe or levels are such and such we could actually trust them. 🥴😉
I hope the " Scientist " supporting the releasing of nuclear wastewater will be held accountable
How are they going to be accountable when people who got affected have to bear the consequences for their whole lives.
They are paid with certain outcome predetermined. That's how west system works. Of course It's not safe. There are only 2 level 7 disasters yet. Look at how Russia handled it. Russia really worked hard to save Europe from the nuclear disaster. And Japan?? Turning a level 2 incident into Level 7 and now poisoning the whole world !!! Lie Lie Lie to cover it up. Shame on Japan !!!
IAEA should be investigated if corruption is involved.
Just big donation and gifts
Also Japan spent 70 billion on public relations for people doing videos and writing comments according to their scripts.
If it's so safe, why are they dumping it so far away from Japan, rather than reusing it as something like cement mix at least... But now, FAR AWAY from us, into the ocean.
or better use in food process for it people to comsume
You should improve international standards about radioactive water.
This process is ordinary for a country ruled by law, isn't it?
@@user-bl4od9ru4oyou want another nuclear bomb?
@@1972845clown
2:20 they are releasing it 1 km of the shore!
water is our most sacred resource 🌊 💧
Very true. If things go wrong, it’s game over.
This is not a consequence of the tsunami but the catastrophic decission to build the NPP on that location in the first place.
dump the water into the sea is the cheapest way .
Also the most irresponsible way. But Japan doesn't care.
Japan has been _about to_ release the Fukushima waste water for over a year. Nice catch DW news!
They started already?
Grossi is staying at the airport due to civil protests in S. Korea
The press and concerned individuals should raise awareness and bring attention to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the situation at the Sellafield nuclear site in the United Kingdom for example. Sellafield has been known to release limited quantities of radioactive waste, including treated water, into the Irish Sea as a result of their nuclear reprocessing activities.
interned there. Trust me, they do nothing hahah.
The scientific equipment,no matter how advanced they are ,can't guarantee to see every tiny particles with our naked eyes. There is this much that human eyes can see. Hence, even if the whole world top scientists are involved, they cannot guarantee anything for the whole human race. Can we blame all these scientists?? So, safest way : stop discharge NOW!!!! Japan ,be open and let rhe whole world help you if you don't have money to properly dispose !!
IAEA is just used to bully other nations from developing nuclear energy.
Surprisingly sane coverage. Well done
Yep, I'm impressed they actually let the expert speak, usually the experts are cut off when the objective facts get in the way of media outlet's ability to blow the story out of proportion to scare folks and get higher ratings. Definitely more facts than fantasy in this piece.
DW always does a great job in delivering the news without sensationalizing it.
@@Alaskan-Armadillo You got to be joking , DW is just another Bias Mouthpiece of MSM
Yes, I’m impressed when I see real experts talking about a topic. Nowdays that’s really rare
@@adriangutierrez8657not true at all, if the country have the the support of big countries they have more power to give voice to experts, but for the contrary if the country is a enemy Facts don't matter and the media focus in speculation and half truth's
why don't use water for construction concrete production in civil projects in Japan? One ton of cement to make concrete requires one on of water. Japan uses 40 millions ton of cement to make concrete every year. Or use it for irrigation in agriculture if it is safe. This water doesn't belong in international waters.
nah bottle it up and give to all those scientist or anyone think it safe to do so
Just one question to your expert - If the water is safe, why does Japan not use itfor self consumption .?
The treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has already been released into the ocean, but Japanese people continue to eat Fukushima marine fish as usual. It's true ❢ 🐟🐟🐟🐟🦐
What’s wrong with accidental leaks if the water is safe? Why release it to ocean.
I remember reading an article in National Geographic a few years back that gave an update of the progress at Fukushima. Releasing the water was always the plan. Greenpeace is shifty.
The more I learn about Greenpeace, the more I'm convinced that they are yet another NIMBY group who are probably funded by fossil fuel lobby groups to replace nuclear power with coal and gas.
National geographic belongs to Rupert Murdoch now and Greenpeace has been infiltrated
Correct. Pollution is the plan. Always has been.
They Already Did It, Their Just Trying To Get Approval For Their Own Guilt.
@@davidallen6434 they have dumped some of the water over the last 12 years, but there are 1.3 million tons (500 olympic sized swimming pools) still to go (and counting).
Let suspend the IAEA LICENSE stop talking nonsense, all corruption.
Even the risk is tiny ,why should other countries take it ? It's like "take a pee into a community's tank and tell other people that's not a big isue,just drink it"
And the risk is not tiny.
Otherwise they don't need to manipulate data and spend 70 billion on public relations and hire tubers to repeat their lies.
The problem is other hazardous radioactive elements, if they are indeed removed from the radioactive water as claimed? If yes, why Japan refuses independent assessment by its neighbors?
It's not safe. There are only 2 level 7 disasters yet. Look at how Russia handled it. Russia really worked hard to save Europe from the nuclear disaster. And Japan?? Turning a level 2 incident into Level 7 and now poisoning the whole world !!! Lie Lie Lie to cover it up. Shame on Japan !!!
Generations unborn will thank us for this great initiative !!!
As they should. Population is a planet killer.
@@tgm.nabam101 Just wondering why you are still sticking here for ? Shouldn't you be gone by now ? lol
they may not have the ability to thank us
First of all we need someone from the IAEA to jump into the sea near where the nuclear wastewater is dump into the sea and tell us is safe.😅😅😂😂
I see comments from the Chinese, but what do the Chinese think about the Uyghurs who suffer from congenital malformations due to the Chinese government's nuclear tests❓
This is how godzilla really came about
If the water were safe, why would Japan want to release it into the sea? Japan could have used the water for domestic consumption instead of just wasting it.
Defence in depth, you clearly have never heard of the concept. Also to pacify hysterical nimbys like you who are allergic to facts
yeah I am sure there are already pipes in place that connect the water reservoirs to the civilian infrastructure. that certainly makes more sense.
@@assalane 1) the Japanese are terrified of radiation after the Americans tested 2 nukes on them after the war was already over. 2) diluting it x100 and releasing it at the bottom of the sea means it wont evaporate into the air, and if some accident ever did happen (which is WAY less likely than a toxic outflow form some other industry, and WAY less likely than from storing it forever) effects are likely to be minimal.
Tho it is kind of a pity to waste so much valuable tritium that could be used for fusion research
Just 'don't litter your waste into the shared ocean', which is common knowledge!!!
Indeed. !!!
Fukushima radioactive sashimi
Don't you think the delivery pipes room? Because it has no drain trenches for the leakages.
If we can have an inspection we would find out the flaw.
i dont understand this thing , when those reactors got hit by tsunami where in the heck does those super critical high radio active water and def and the other highly radio active stuff go? probably in the sea? so its been a long time and no one ever complaint about them glowing in UV light , but then heres a more deluted and treated water and the freaking concern is on high level like WTF?
back then there is no other alternative, now there is alternative it is just a matter of cost, cost that they want the government of japan to pay alone.
Doesn't this system on these pictures have no maintenance? Because each piece of equipment hasn't the by-pass.
I also heard someone make a very reasonable proposal. He said that since the Japanese government is 100% confident that the water is not poisonous, it can sign a letter of consent compared to other countries. If something happens, the Japanese government will 100% You are 100% responsible for compensation, everyone thinks you are just right, since you are 100% confident, compensation will not happen, and it can also reduce everyone's worries
good job
that would not work, Japan entire country would not be enough to pay for the damage. If Japan were demanded to sell their country, they will start the next world war.
Another problem is that there is no way to prove if something is caused by their water.
For example, several decades ago, Americans created lead gasoline to poison the world. Scientists measured global excess death, global IQ reduction and global crime rate increase, however there is no way to prove if a specific case is related to the lead gasoline.
if it is safe， why waste it
@@xuanyaowu5280 Is it fresh water?Or salt water？
Fact check: deuterium can be separated from water, but tritium cannot? PM Kishida ate some Fukushima sashimi ... unfortunately he don't speak for the top export consumers who eat daily/weekly for years with cumulative effects
And you're worried about CO2.
What’s the point of you monitoring the quality of water, fish and sediments afterwards? You should know the entire impact before doing something so consequential!!
will all sea creatures become mutants?
Nuclear energy is clean energy, the water is safe.
that water has 1,000 nuclidies. why is he talking about only tritium? that water itself is radioactive. a bad lier.
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, all radioactive materials, including tritium, are purified to below regulatory standards using multi-nuclide removal equipment and diluted at least 100 times before being released into the ocean. Through these treatments, the actual amount released is less than 1/100 of the regulatory standard value.
Because that was the scripts given by the Japan govt. There are even tuber reveal how they got paid - by number of views or comments. Yes I'm contributing to their income.
70 billion on public relation is not a small number. They are trying to confuse the public. However, US is the first one to cut Japanese seafood import since Jan 2023, the most significant cut in the world. They just don't call it a ban.
Now US is talking about helping Japanese contaminated seafood to ship to other controlled regions, such as Taiwan.
Fukushima polluted water is in direct contact with the core of the highly radioactive reactor, I wonder does it really can be cleaned to a safe level, since it is different with other countries' case
Use the water for agriculture or swimming pools in Japan, if it is safe!
Then you start doing this in your country with your tritiated water. All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water.
already used in your country😅
Do you know US is the first one to cut import of Japan seafood?
We can expect many children would get cancer due to these waste water from Japan!😢
Come on guys Japanese people are so nice and very polite. Who wants to keep waste in their own homes. Plus it is safe and approved by “international” agencies
this is absolutely irresponsible…it's difficult for the nature to recover itself if anything goes wrong no matter what the experts say…everyone should know this
Lmao
An ignorant fool can't make a more well-founded statement than an expert.
There are only 2 level 7 disasters yet. Look at how Russia handled it. And Japan?? Turning a level 2 incident into Level 7 and now Lie Lie Lie to cover it up. Shame on Japan !!!
Which country is this IAEA official from? I'm pretty sure Asian countries have no problem paying for shipping the contaminated water and dumping in his country so that it's a lot easier for him to monitor the negligible impact on the environment.
controlled and brided by u.s. and jn
Ya'll want real Godzilla this bad huh?
Watch less movies and read more science...
@@Synathidy No u go read less movies and watch science.
Why choose a UK opinion when 2 Germans experts already says NO.
UK scientist do fraud better.
I am Japanese. I understand that the discharge of treated water into the ocean, whether harmful or harmless, will greatly undermine the trust of the international community and cause great damage to the earth and other countries. The big problem with this is that the Japanese were unable to control their own country and government. There are many people in Japan who think like me, and I feel a great responsibility. What should I do? Sorry for my bad English, long sentences.
Japanese are experts at saying sorry but go ahead with their actions anyway.
I’m curious if you will still eat seafood in Japan? I love seafood and planning to visit japan soon but this has given me concern.
dont see what to see,just see what to do
Japanese ppl never can stop their government, from WWII to release of nuclear water
I believe that a large part of the Japanese people are rational and it is the government that has kidnapped you.😢
DW has invited the professor from UK who is not affected by this situation. Why not invite Professor Robert H. Richmond of University of Hawaii, who is the Director of School of Ocean and Earth Science, who does NOT recommend such solution.
“This is not the first nuclear incident, and it won’t be the last,” said Richmond. “Perhaps this can be an opportunity to try different approaches that have never been tried before. Maybe this could be a learning opportunity to really set the bar for the future of not continuing to use our oceans as the dumping ground.”
Negligible is not same as NO effects.
LOL. You probably shouldn't eat bananas or enter brick buildings
@@mycosys Or have a granite counter top, or smoke detector. The only activity left is from tritium at levels less than is allowable in drinking water by several orders of magnitude.
Don't go out, the sun has more than negligible effects on your skin.
There is a greater risk that another earthquake or typhoon will destroy the tanks and cause even worse contamination.
The water has been treated and will be diluted by the sea water. The nearest Island is about 2000 kilometers away, so it won't really cause problems.
Oh, and they don't fish around that area too.
Do you think about how negligible a fatty burger is we when you smash one.
So it's negotiable
there are still people supporting what Japan did. What a crazy world. Human beings have no hope.
7:38 It's funny that China and South Korea has been discharging tritium a lot and still complaining Japan.
Well, it is very simple. If it is safe, Japan can directly discharge the water to their own land that will save water for themselves 😂
@@dongmingzhao7828 china can also quarantine all their people and only discharge COVID to their people and save people from dying all over the world 😂 But what did your country do? 🐒
@@dongmingzhao7828 do you know what the evaporation cycle is?
You dont get accused of intelligence much, do you.
So sad we no longer have any safe seafood to eat. It is released to the ocean because it is not safe to be consumed in Japan. You get the point
5:17 it is disappointed that the DW reported mentioned as radioactive water when in fact it is treated water.
They Already Did This Thing At Soma Post 2017-2021.
Professor Smith please support your own statements literally, i.e. drinking it, as you have said it is safe to drink.
They take $$ from Japan's 70 billions spent on PR.
You don't need a scientist to tell you whether nuclear contaminated toxin is safe or not.
They should have been made to make a reservoir and store it
The concern has been around the fact that this water is not regular wastewater used to cool regular operations but contaminated water that came in contact with a nuclear leak likely to contain not just tritium and carbon-14, which can't be removed, but potentially a large number of other substances, radioactive materials.
So what we really should be doing is trying to minimize human exposures to radiation that are unnecessary and can be avoided. Any unavoidable exposure should be kept as low as possible.
In this case, there's a very important argument to be made about whether this discharge actually needs to happen and whether the alternatives have been properly considered and explored. Because for people, especially outside Japan, one could argue that there is no benefit from this discharge. There is only harm.
As for the ALPS devise, it's not widely used in industry practice. It's not been scientifically approved and tested in terms of its efficiency and effect.
The Japanese side repeatedly mentions the term "treated water." The fact is that of the 1.4 million tons of contaminated water, only a little bit has been treated. We don't know how the ALPS device could handle the vast remaining quantity of contaminated water.
The IAEA has no mandate whatsoever to issue a green light for Japan's discharge of contaminated nuclear water. What the IAEA can do is to set up the scientific standards, request compliance with those standards and monitor whether they have been followed or not by its member states.
This is not normal discharge. This is waste material that's projected to be discharged over many decades, which will continue to accumulate. We're not just dealing with the almost 1.4 million tons of contaminated water that's present now, some of which has already leaked into the ground water and will end up in the ocean, but many more tons that will accumulate over decades.
the final report and statement made by the chief of IAEA are self-contradictory and highly controversial. The director general stated that the treated water was drinkable and swimmable. That is surprising. If the water after treatment is safe, as he said, and can be used as drinking water and be used for swimming pools, why doesn't Japan use this water for its domestic agriculture and industrial purposes? If it's clean and safe enough, there was no need to discharge it into the oceans.
At the moment, we don't have any convincing evidence that the treatment of the water will work. Based on the evidence that TEPCO has released so far publicly, 72 percent of the samples of water that had been treated by APLS in one treatment round did not meet the regulatory standards. Some of them were almost 20,000 higher than the regulatory limit.
So we really have no proof that the purification system will work as intended. That's a very direct concern about this discharge. The one approach which the Japanese government is applying is dilution, as if somehow diluting the material, it obviously reduces the concentration. But the total amount of that material is unchanged. Dilution is not a solution, because it doesn't change affect the amount of material in total that is released at all.
Those who take the money and promote the safety of Japan's nuclear toxins know the difference. That was the scripts provided by Japan.
Despite protests from neighboring countries, Japan starts the discharge of a second batch of Fukushima nuclear contaminated alps into the sea on Thursday oct 5.
Another total of about 7,800 tons of nuclear will be heading into the Pacific Ocean.
The process will take 17 days meaning around 460 tons of nuclear a day to be released.
What can we do to stop this disaster?
Always bring troubles to other countries, that's Japan.
no，it's china
@@joker-jv4wj Has China invaded Japan？
Countries are dumping dumpsters full of plastic into the ocean every minute, but everyone getting upset over some highly diluted, treated radioactive water, that's in far, far less quantities than plastic waste.
All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water.
nice to see that the cleanup slowly is picking up
Are you living close to Japan?
@@iseeflowers no
If it's safe, they should keep it for themselves. They can use it to irrigate their crops, clean their streets, and have their politicians bath in it etc.
Tritium is naturally occurring and is therefore found in agricultural and drinking water used worldwide. It is also found in rainwater and in seawater. Tritium is found in water treated by Japan for the same reason that tritium-containing water is being discharged from nuclear power plants around the world. This means that it is extremely difficult to separate water from water. On this issue, those with knowledge say there is no problem with the discharge, while those without knowledge say the discharge is dangerous.
drink it if you think it is safe, and use it it ur irrigation systems. professors from many asian countries already disprove of this action strongly.
@@celinetay People all over the world drink water with tritium.
You have certainly drunk plenty of it in your life too.
I believe every element can be found in the nature but the problem is the doses. Naturally exists in water is different from emitting tons of that into the ocean. And we are not even talking about hundreds of other elements in the waste water. 😅
@@liangke4276 The concentration of tritium in the discharged water is less than one-seventh of the WHO's Drinking Water Quality Standards, so there is no dose problem.
我之前看到过，苏联过去使用氢弹建设水库，当地居民怕有辐射，这项工程的领导者，以及负责人跳下水库游泳，通过这个举动来证明没有辐射，既然这个是由日本政府决定的，请每人先喝1L这核污水。 自己都不喝，难道因为自己曾经受到过核攻击，就向全球发动这种不负责的核攻击吗？
IAEA just confirm the data and solution provided by Japan is right. They did not test it by themselves or discuss the other plans. And it’s just a academy institute, no right to permit this.
This sets the precedent. The cheapest solution for the operator must be okay for everyone. How long has it been said that lead in gasoline is necessary and not so bad. Even though I attribute a high level of credibility to DW's research, a taste remains when industrial interests are advocated, which lead to the fact that in the future exactly this industry will be able to hand over its garbage to the general public of the entire planet without worries and at low cost.
it's nowhere near the cheapest solution. the cheapest solution would have been to not store it and not filter it, and not pump up contaminated ground water, but just to release everything into the ocean. in facty the cheapest solution would havealso been to not contain and cool the molten cores, and to not replace that mountain of topsoil in the surroundingarea. they have invested a giant amount of money and made this water literally perfectly safe, as the water they're releasing easily is within safe standards for DRINKING WATER in terms of tritium content. the surrounding ocean outside the powerplant is probably more contaminated than the water they're about to release into it! this situation is nowhere near controversial from a fact-based perspective.
@@Ass_of_Amalek "the surrounding ocean outside the powerplant is probably more contaminated" then feel free to pour tones of contaminated water to the ocean. Good point!
@@fan2318 "contaminated" with a nature identical substance that chemically is just water, does not bioaccumulate and is at lower than natural levels. It is likely cleaner than your drinking water (which is a whole other matter that we should probably paying more attention to than this distraction - we have the capability to purify water but dont feel its worth it, we have polluted our water supplies with bioaccumulative 'forever chemicals', volatiles and metals are leeching form pipes, etc).
The destroyer overlords and their lackeys could care less.
They have their bunkers and provisions for themselves.
The treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant has already been released into the ocean, but Japanese people continue to eat Fukushima marine fish as usual. It's true ❢
Do you guys think Japan has the right to decide to release nuclear wastewater on its own? Come on man, let's see who is the boss behind Japan, and why the boss agreed Japanese to do so? The boss owns enough freshwater resources (five lakes) after drinking water was polluted all over the world their drinking water will replace the oil's position......
Japan should release it’s nuclear water waste in their lakes And monitor it for a number of years and see it’s impact in the environment and ecosystem……
If it is safe, why do the Japanese worry about the water tank leaks? On the one hand we emphasize to protecting the environment but on the other we allow the Japanese to release nuclear wastewater into the ocean. What is the logic here?
violating the seas, violating the planet - this is modifying destiny in action.
You're doing much worse by violating the world with your continued existence.
According to scientific concept, the radioative materials will eventually absorbed / dilutate by pacific ocean.
The concentration of radiation level is insignificant to human after dilutation.
So if they say it's safe, it's safe, right.
And effective.
So if the unqualified people fundraising for cash say it isnt and you should give them lots of money to stop it, you definitely shouldn't listen to the independent qualified scientists.