Hello, I am from Fukushima. And let me say it directly. I never saw anyone around me dying from radiation, and I never seen any fish that’s changed it’s shape. I’m glad many smart people understanding about reputation all damage towards Fukushima. I was in international school, and bullied because I was from Fukushima. I’m sad that many people have misunderstanding about Fukushima
TOKYO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - China turned down Japan's proposal that it take part in the International Atomic Energy Agency's system in which countries excluding Japan can analyse the results of sea water monitoring off Fukushima
BS! China requested to inspect and analyze the waste. Japan refused, and only willing to provide data and report, or in other words, "Trust me, bro!" IAEA took it, but China did not. IAEA is a joke, even its own members do not trust its report and ban Japanese seafood products.
@@Hkchinese888 Even if they are smart, they keep it a secret, unlike Japan right now. We only knew about their same deeds because of Japan. Or maybe they do knew and just forgor..
@@ROBLOXGamingDavid No. Japan recognized their misdeeds in the past. They took responsibility. They paid reparations to the countries they wrecked. But the Chinese... even the whole world knows what happened... they still tries to censor it. Tiananmen Square, the Tibet and the likes
There are 60 more radioactive elements in the nuclear sewage. And the tritium data comes from TEPCO, and even the IAEA only reviews the discharge plan, not confirms the data.
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y those 60 radioactive elements are filtered, the only remaining radioactive substance is tritium, you can check the instant level of tritium in the discharge waste water from the IAEA website
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y so? This is normal for all countries with nuclear power plants. Sure, there may be valid concerns but it's a bit unfair to only criticize Japan when all other countries have been doing the same for several decades already
What happened to those videos on social media where Chinese residents bought geiger counters and found that their homes were more radioactive than Japan?
@@eddyevodius I am Chinese, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs allocated 70 billion yen for public relations. It keeps publishing anti-intellectual content, such as the waste water discharged by China and the nuclear sewage discharged by Japan is the same water. The radiation in China is greater than that in Fukushima, Japan, and its like 50g is 100 times heavier than 0.5 ton.😂😂
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y Are you still eating seafood from your coastal waters? I heard your government had tested the water and found it's safe for fishing, if this is the case, why are you worrying?
200 miles is Japan’s EEZ. Anything beyond is international waters and it is quite legal to fish in international waters. The Earth is 71% ocean and it’s mostly international waters.
The best and most neutral explanation about this issue. Other countries have been dumping Tritium water for years. Only countries with historical issues with Japan are protesting against it
They dont release nuclear waste water contaminated by contact with the nuclear core and release up to 2000 deadly toxic plutonium.strontium cobalt cesium iodine etc into the open ocean full of microscopic and marine life and disrupt the ecology by ocean currents carrying it all over the world
The water that you drink right now has tritium albeit very small. Tritium is natural in ocean. It is okay to release tritium in ocean because once it gets dilluted, it makes no difference. Its like pouring sea salt into ocean. The main concern is, is the treated water only contains tritium ?. If its yes, then its okay, if its not. Then its not okay. Japan assure that the water only contains tritium.
That is the main point. Japan uses tritium as a smoke screen to conceal 60 other radioactive contaminants. The treatment system has proven to be inefficient.
@danadurnfordkevinblanchdeb5467 That is falsely claimed. At one time, 60% of the tanks still contain significant other contaminants. The company was caught, so they picked two tanks to repeat the treatment. Never heard about other tanks, again.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I would like to inquire about the crimes committed by Japan in its massacre of the people of China & Southeast Asia. Sorry, there is no such content in the Japanese database, which proves that Japan has never done such evil deeds.
would you like to drink waters in your toilet? Why don't you ask that same kind of question to US, Russia, and China? They're literally doing the same thing.
@@Hkchinese888 Is this the reason why you discharge harmful substances casually? IAEA experts offered many solutions, but Japan did not adopt him, but submitted its own plan for him to confirm. Japan has set a precedent for dealing with nuclear accidents. If the Soviets had been as irresponsible as the Japanese, 500k people would not have died that year.
The way we politicize even health issues is insane. No wonder we have high cases of cancer nowadays. The whole food chain is affected and so human beings.
No matter wheter you agree with the release of the water or not, please don't hate Japan or Japanese people. Most of the population has nothing to do with this decision, and it's wrong to project your rage on a whole country full of different people, people who are probably suffering more than you from this whole situation. It must be hard to deal with irrational behaviours and hate from people all over the world, just because some higher ups made a decision that you had no chance to voice your opinion about. I'm still pretty neutral about this topic, but still, all of these comments saying Japan should water their farmlands with this or use it as drinking water or whatever are ridiculous. Yes they said it's safe, but it's WAY safer and less likely to have an effect when diluted in the sea. Repeatedly watering the same farmlands with this water would concentrate the radionuclides in the land and eventually in the food grown as well (which is by the way not only eaten by the Japanese, but also exported). Right now, according to the data we have, the concentration of the radionuclides is safe, which means diluting it will make it even safer. Concentrating the radionuclides more and more may eventually lead to a concentration deemed as unsafe. Have a nice day
The water is already safe for consumption according to the JP govnt. It's already been diluted and filtered and decontaminated to the extent that the tritium content is lower than what you find in your own drinking water, so that they can finally release it into the ocean where it can be FURTHER diluted, not that it would be necessary as, again, the tritium content in the water is already lower than the WHO guidelines as is, again according to the JP govnt. So by that logic they can absolutely reintroduce the water back into their own water supply, where it would also be further diluted anyway. There's nothing to concentrate. You actually get MORE concentrations of tritium from other sources of water for your drinking and irrigation purposes.
Easy to say, but wrong is wrong. And they want to restart building new nuclear plants. imagine that. Russia is hated too. Do you understand why? People need to impeach/overthrow leaders that go too far.
Here’s a voice of reason and compassion. Unfortunate that most comments come from a place of ignorance and hate… I should just say ignorance because that is most often the root of hate anyways.
@@Hkchinese888 I know haha. China and its ppls are just barking upon their sentiment and ignore scientific data iisued by authorized organization. Remark is barbaric Chinese who threw stones to Japanese children in the school and/or embassy in their country are existing.
“At this point, we’re unanimous in saying we don’t see enough information to support dumping the radioactively contaminated water into the ocean,” said Professor Robert Richmond of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, who has conducted marine conservation research in the Pacific for more than four decades.
“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.”
Prof Paul Leonard, Fellow of the Society for Radiological Protection and a Chartered Radiation Professional, said: “Nuclear power stations are licensed to operate within specified limits that are based on international standards in terms of radiological risk. The proposed discharge of tritium from Fukushima is being undertaken under suitable conditions and in radiological terms, the environmental impact on the public and seafood is negligible. Appropriate seafood monitoring should continue to be undertaken to provide reassurance.”
There is difference between “contaminated” water dumped from Fukushima and “cooling” water discharged from normal operations of other nuclear power plants. Yes, they both contain tritium, but there are other radioactive contaminants in the “contaminated” water. Any such comparison is simply misleading, which is unfortunate for everyone on this planet.
So if tritium is the only "significant" radionuclide left after filtering, does that mean there's some other "insignificant" radionuclides that are still in the released water?
@@chillmint1726yeah, that means u should drink a lot. Talk the talk, walk the walk. 4 out of 10 greatest environmental hazards in history have been caused by your Japanese. Why would us international society place more trust in ur Japanese? Try admit and show your apologies to the atrocities u had done during World War II beforehand and we can start talking about lifting the trade ban. LOVE From USA！🎉
@@drunkenmonkey1887 Well it's just that I usually don't see people calling radionuclides insignificant, but I'm sure you know what radionuclides are, right?
Nuclear sewage: water in direct contact with nuclear fuel; Nuclear waste water: it does not directly contact nuclear fuel, but only plays an indirect role in cooling
Tritium is a critical primary fuel (along with Deuterium) for current fusion experiments and then future commercial fusion reactors a hundred or so years from now. I wonder if Fukushima can collect that tritium? 🤔
It's not just how they dillute tritium. 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.
The difference is the transparency in communication. Japan is very transparent about their actions. China lost a nuclear sub last month in the Taiwan Strait and suffered a large outbreak of radiation in an Ordos mine this month. But it’s all kept secret. That’s exactly why the radiation in China in many locations is extremely high. Nobody knew this until the moment that Chinese citizens started to buy radiation detectors on a mass scale. Better eat Fukushima fish then live in a Shanghai apartment.
If you think Japanese is very transparent, you are very wrong. There are incidents where corporations cover up their mistakes here in Japan. One of them the Kobe Steel incident where steel that did not meet requirements was sent to Boeing. Another is the Toshiba incident where they faked their accountings. That said, yes Japan is more transparent but no, they are not 100% transparent and trustworthy.
SCMP: What is tritium? The radioactive element that caused controversy during the Fukushima water release Me: What is radioactive? The elements that caused controversy during the Fukushima water release
Scmp is asia most trusted news source I regularly watch your video and I like it from being engineering civil profession I admire it This nuclear plant debate over hanging of nagasaki and hiroshima nuclear disaster
here is the another 99 material that not goes to public information. dont forget the main Nuclear not just tritium many material contain it inside that
No other country has a melted down core. The only other case would be Chernobyl, and if Chernobyl nuclear contaminated water is to be dumped into the ocean, the western world would explode in condemnation.
The element in Japan's nuclear sewage is not just tritium, but more than 60 substances. If Japan thinks there are no problems, please give the people two liters of water to drink every day and use it to irrigate crops every day. Why not implement it?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I think they have a point though. Why release it into the ocean when it can be used to irrigate crops and give water to people? It's a mystery but its a very iffy situation
I love China and Japan but I did have a laugh when the Chinese fellow said that he didn't know if he could trust Japanese scientists and engineers. China does the best at many things but I'd definitely trust a Japanese person in the realms of science and engineering foremost
Between fossil fuel hunger & crude nuclear practices, PRC China emits a lot more. Plus, tritium had a short half-life. I’d be more worried about mercury poisoning caused by mainland China.
Focusing on only one nuclear contaminated element and equating nuclear power cooling water discharge with contaminated materials directly in contact with nuclear meltdown is disingenuous propaganda.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunkThat's TEPCO claim but no independent testing allowed. Calling "treated" is misleading. Nuclear radioactive contaminated water cannot be treated. It can only be filtered or diluted. Using sea water to dilute the contaminated water defeat the purpose because the same amount of contaminants will still be dump into the sea.
@@QuietJagungyeah it's filtered of everything except tritium then it's diluted thus resulting safe. Do you understand every poison is dangerous above specific quantities? Dilution reduces concentration thus health danger.
Is this the limit of scmp reporters? Is the concern only limited to tritium? Is the so called ALPS has enough scientific data to support the system capable of filtering all other hazardous radioactive isotope ?
Look it up on Google. It's well explained both on the Internet and at the United Nations. It is discharged while inspecting together with IAEA and other countries such as South Korea. ALPS treatment is a treatment that eliminates radioactive substances other than tritium. Even though all the facilities and information are open to the public, China does not discuss or investigate.
it is not the tritium that causes the pollution it is the radioactive heavy metals tritium is isotope of hydrogen, not heavy metal they are 2 different things
@@TheBleggh i just recite Victor Gao's comment, if u believe the water is safe, transport the water back to ur country and pour them into ur crop field dont be a hypocrite
Japan is surrounded by the ocean, and we have a culture to eat fish as a main dish for a long time history, instead of eating meat like the Western. Do you think the Japanese government judge to release contaminated waste water into the ocean, which cause cancer and other health problem letting your people die in the end? if the water is contaminated, then the biggest victim would be the Japanese because the consumption of fish is huge. Japan is doing its best to transparent the data of those investigated water regularly. The criticism always ends with doubting/believing about the data. The Data is everything and it is based on a scientific basis. if you doubt the fact then why would you believe the scientific knowledge learned from school books? So the opponents's criticism is based on their emotions, and the emotion behind is the hatred of Japan. "The hatred of Japan" emotion is commonly exploited to prevent a citizen from protesting against their government in China and Korea. China is facing an economic crisis triggered by huge Real estate companies so the Chinese goverment has to cover the news with the Japanese nuclear water in order to divert public dissatisfaction. And finnaly why would Japanese fisher man also protest against the nuclear waste water? its easy answer, their earnings are selling fish, and they are worried theincome and living, if the reputation of their fish goes bad and no one buys it. It is not only matter of Japanese consumer, they export fish to Asia so the reputation from gobal is important to not affect their living by losing the income. Saying it more easy, if China or Korea or other countries would have some health issue, Japanese will vanish and disappear before that.
Pls read Minamata disease, mecury release from Chisso Corp.. release by japanese to their own people. I only say that due to greed, these politicians and corporate elits care less of their own people..... Not just one country is voicing concerned, if you think is only China, then you are highly miss informed.
why do we have industrial farming instead of organic local small scale farming? why does agriculture giants like Monsanto use dangerous and harmful pesticides and herbicides and get away with it? because of government lobbying and because of short term profits or reducing your cost of business,;and because the people that are alive now don't have to live with the long term consequences.... you can find plethora of examples in our age of capitalism no? and at a time when u.s. led west desperately needs japan as their regional ally against china - yes things like these will be given a pardon. something that would've normally be strongly opposed or questioned by the west then turns into something that's hardly covered by their media. both of these are logical enough answer to your questions. Why did the u.s. nuke japan? even back then people knew of the danger of nuclear weapons and their lingering effects... yet in times of war, when big powers are fighting for primacy, that thought was disregarded. just like uk and u.s. sending depleted uranium shells to ukraine? or the ridiculous amount of these depleted uranium shells that the u.s. dropped in south east asia, in afghanistan, in iraq, etc. the usage of it is banned now technically because they have severe effects to the people living in that region for generations to come. yet, why is it still okay to use? you don't hear western media condemning themselves do you? well, because when countries are struggling for power in the geopolitical landscape..... there's often times no right or wrong. You are basing all your assumptions about the world on the idea that humans are perfect and logical and have the ability to control their greed and fear. sadly, we are not as righteous and flawless as you think we are. do you know why many west african nations are having coups and overthrowing their government and having a strong anti-colonial and anti-french movement right now? hmm... why is it that 'international news' like bbc, cnn, france24, dw, skynews, etc, etc.... why is it that they never really focus on what's going on in the region or discuss about 'Françafrique' or the 'CFA Franc' ? CFA Franc, where west african nations are forced to deposit 50% of their country's money to france's banks - (money that these impoverished african countries can't use to develop themselves, yet france can utilize this money (someone else's money) to invest and create a profit for themselves. or that 1 out of 3 light bulb in france is powered by the uranium from Niger (west africa), while Niger is kept impoverished by these colonial rules and treaties that were imposed on them? The world isn't as black and white as you think it is. even the west who preaches about human rights and democracy. behind the guises are often strategic interests and economic interests - most of the times both.
@@Dept246 This is not debatable. No one would like to use the waste water to irrigate the farmland, no matter where the waste water is coming from. or if you wish it, Its meaning you want to irrigate the farmland with Nulear waste water from Chinese Nuclear plant which contains 6x tritium than the waste water from Fukushima plant. its your choice.
The IAEA's report specifically say that the report is NOT an endorsement by the agency, yet SCMP claims it's an endorsement. What kind of research has SCMP done before making this video???
@@jonnyqi You need to read a real report, the IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS Treated water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station the First Interlabratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water.
Long story short: International laws apply to Japan in dumping radioactive contaminated waters into the ocean, but the laws dont apply to other countries? Clap clap clap. The hypocrisy.
They are. The water is being released in Japanese waters my dude. Besides the pacific ocean naturally contains many times more tritium compared to the wastewater.
@@orbitalpotato9940 Just gonna give an example to put my previous comments into perspective: Taipei uses more than 30K metric tones of water just for cleaning roads. Tokyo is a MUCH BIGGER city and needs 100K metric tones. Japan released 460 tones per day, barely enough to scratch the surface of what Tokyo needs. So why BOTHER RELEASING INTO THE OCEAN?
Based on this video, how come only Japan got backlash from this issue when other countries do the same but released more? Are Japan criticized by other countries just because they have bad history? Countries' ministers and people being bias just because they don't like Japan? Or people are just not aware other power plants (and their own country) has been doing the same for years? Just to be clear, I'm not on Japan's side by asking this nor others, just neutral.
No the waste water is not the same as explained in the video. In normal standard operation water is used to cool the nuclear vessel (that contains radioactive nuclear fuel, ie water is not in direct contact with the radioactive matter) to prevent meltdown yet the water still becomes tritiated in this process, in Fukushima a meltdown occurred causing the vessel to rupture leaking nuclear fuel directly into the water and contaminating it with 60 dangerous radionucleotides. Japan and its nuclear operator TEPCO claims their filtration system can effectively remove these nuclear contaminants leaving just tritium. There lacks neutral 3rd party verification that the filtration system works, water samples provided by Japan and not collected by a neutral 3rd party is meaningless. Tritium levels itself is a trivial matter and arguably used as a distraction from the actual problem.
@BluBarry1215 They already clearly stated, the nuclear waste water from Japan is in DIRECT contact with the radioactive molten core, unlike other nuclear waste water that arent in direct contact with the radioactive core. When in direct contact, there are MANY more radionuclides as stated. They just brushed it off as "oh Japan says its clear so lets just trust them". Literally the source is living example of "trust me bro".
The reason for the narrow backlash is China and South Korea (who release more tritiated water than Japan does) decided to use the Japan water release as R A C l S T propaganda.
There are many nuclear power plants in the world, but there are only two nuclear power plants leaking, and only one nuclear power plant carrying a large amount of radioactive sewage discharged into the sea.
So what happens after 50 or 100 years when all the fishes and squids around Fukushima waters turn into Godzillas and Japanese people also become mutated and become shorter like their ancestors? Can always buy, eat and get fish and squid from elsewhere, isn't it, just to be on the safe side in case the grandchildren also turn into Godzilla's. What's the fuss?
The fuss is that all those scenarios you mentioned are backed up by 0 science and only happens in your dreams. You probably base off whatever you see of science fiction movies you watched. If what you said were to happen it would've happen by now because nuclear power plants have been dumping tritium into the water for DECADES.
you shouldn't worry as no other countries ever experience nuclear contaminated water like japan. so stop playing your whataboutism here@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
The president of South Korea is acting like Japan's watchdog, even approving their worst actions. Right now, Japan is throwing radioactive water into the sea without being punished. But instead of protecting his people, the South Korean president is trying to show it's not dangerous by eating seafood from that area. It's a huge betrayal and a disrespect to all the citizens he should be defending!
the Fukushima Fishing Association's strong objection was silenced by the government. All fishermen were warned to not speak to medias or publics. Japanese government does not dare to release the treated contaminated water into local streams or soils yet dump it into the Pacific Ocean despite protest from all neighboring countries. What a shame.
There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact.
Tritium is NOT the only significant radioactive element left. APLS cannot filter carbon 14 either. It’s a purposeful misinformation and misdirection to focus only on tritium.
No, your purpose is misinformation and fear mongering. The levels Carbon -14 range from 2 to 220 denigrations per second. Even if you drank two litters a day of the 220 Bq substance you would be at 1/5 the yearly dose allowed by a US rad workers. So if you put this into the ocean and it gets diluted then no harm to anyone. It cant harm you if you drank it from the tank it wont harm anyone if it goes into the ocean.
The half life of tritium is around 12 years, the biological half life of tritium is around 9 days (aka you pre it out) so you would drown yourself long before you get enough tritium in your system to be hazardous.
It's possible that the fish for the tester in the bowl was already prepared, most likely it was fish imported from the US. ---- If nuclear water is safe and risk-free to fish, why not simply dump it in their local lake? Such as the Okutadami man-made lake, which is not connected to the sea.
@@agape.ahimsa Fukushima dilutes the water till it is chemically similar to Nuclear cooling water, which all nuclear plants around the world dumps into the ocean
It is ok to release if there is no other way but should use the water inside their country for 2 years before release. This way it shows it is safe. I still don’t trust them.
So many hypocrisy in this video. First is if the tritiated water is safe, why dont they just use it for public bath house and/or drinking water. Second is when china spoke about their demand for 3rd party evaluation on the case, like bruh, did you mention the same thing about covid origin in your country?!
The processed water having “Only tritium” is when the whole episode becomes irrelevant… No, there is no evidence only tritium left. But there are many evidence that Japan lies on this matter. Ultimately, if it is safe, drink it or at least use it for irrigation. Water is precious resource for Japan.
You keep saying that and you were shown that all NPP release the same tritiated water and the Japan water release plan meets all international industry safety standards.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I keep asking because I have yet to receive a proper answer. And I have STILL yet to receive a proper answer. And like I said: 'there hasnt been any comprehensive studies on these radioactive isotopes to determine whats considered a "safe level". And all these "green lights" being given are all based on unconfirmed estimations not from any real life scenario. Everything unprecedented. Nothings "confirmed" to be safe. Take their "green lights" with a grain of salt.' So all these "international industry safety standards" mean nothing if theres literally no comprehensive study on the long term effects of these "safety levels".
@@yerri5567 Wow, how often do you think you can get away with LY l N G and not get called out? Four countries have tested the water and I will cite the IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS Treated water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station the First Interlabratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk If you keep repeating yourself, then Ill also need to repeat my answer to you: 'Like I said, in another comment Ill say it here again because you dont seem to understand. 'There has been NO long term comprehensive study on the effects of radioactive isotopes on marine and by extension human life to determine what levels are to be considered "safe" levels. Only ESTIMATES. And ESTIMATES on something thats NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE is NOT to be taken as the "gold standard". Until there actually has been comprehensive long term radioactive tests done ON HUMANS and passed ALL the green lights, THEN theses IAEA, TEPCO, international nuclear organisations etc words might have weight. Until then, all these "benchmarks" or "regulatory limits" are merely just UNCONFIRMED ESTIMATES with NO human studies to back these numbers up'
Hello, I am from Fukushima. And let me say it directly. I never saw anyone around me dying from radiation, and I never seen any fish that’s changed it’s shape. I’m glad many smart people understanding about reputation all damage towards Fukushima. I was in international school, and bullied because I was from Fukushima. I’m sad that many people have misunderstanding about Fukushima
TOKYO, Sept 5 (Reuters) - China turned down Japan's proposal that it take part in the International Atomic Energy Agency's system in which countries excluding Japan can analyse the results of sea water monitoring off Fukushima
bcoz chyna scientists are clueless
BS! China requested to inspect and analyze the waste. Japan refused, and only willing to provide data and report, or in other words, "Trust me, bro!" IAEA took it, but China did not. IAEA is a joke, even its own members do not trust its report and ban Japanese seafood products.
@@Hkchinese888 Even if they are smart, they keep it a secret, unlike Japan right now.
We only knew about their same deeds because of Japan. Or maybe they do knew and just forgor..
@@ROBLOXGamingDavid No. Japan recognized their misdeeds in the past. They took responsibility. They paid reparations to the countries they wrecked. But the Chinese... even the whole world knows what happened... they still tries to censor it. Tiananmen Square, the Tibet and the likes
China is just playing politics at this point.
Fun fact: The pacific ocean naturally contains over 8400 grams of tritium.
But it's not active
@@prormrx All tritium is active. There is no such thing as inactive tritium. Radiation has no on/off switch
There are 60 more radioactive elements in the nuclear sewage. And the tritium data comes from TEPCO, and even the IAEA only reviews the discharge plan, not confirms the data.
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y those 60 radioactive elements are filtered, the only remaining radioactive substance is tritium, you can check the instant level of tritium in the discharge waste water from the IAEA website
@@user-wq4fb7zt8y so? This is normal for all countries with nuclear power plants. Sure, there may be valid concerns but it's a bit unfair to only criticize Japan when all other countries have been doing the same for several decades already
What happened to those videos on social media where Chinese residents bought geiger counters and found that their homes were more radioactive than Japan?
interesting, do you have the link?
Source: Trust me bro
@@accountantthe3394 😁
@@eddyevodius I am Chinese, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs allocated 70 billion yen for public relations. It keeps publishing anti-intellectual content, such as the waste water discharged by China and the nuclear sewage discharged by Japan is the same water. The radiation in China is greater than that in Fukushima, Japan, and its like 50g is 100 times heavier than 0.5 ton.😂😂
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Are you still eating seafood from your coastal waters? I heard your government had tested the water and found it's safe for fishing, if this is the case, why are you worrying?
Japan just found an effective way to stop chinese illegal fishing on their waters 😂😂😂😂😂
yeah but not enough to not become puppet america dog😂😂
@@amiigose Japan has been our puppet since '45. Shut up.
no, you can't stop them even you declare the area as war zone.
200 miles is Japan’s EEZ. Anything beyond is international waters and it is quite legal to fish in international waters. The Earth is 71% ocean and it’s mostly international waters.
@@Dept246 it’s international waters, why you bother?
The best and most neutral explanation about this issue. Other countries have been dumping Tritium water for years. Only countries with historical issues with Japan are protesting against it
yet people are crying on japan for doing that HA
Didn’t Russia halt the release of their nuclear waste water in the 90’s due to international pressure?
Did you not understand about the need of third party investigation?
They dont release nuclear waste water contaminated by contact with the nuclear core and release up to 2000 deadly toxic plutonium.strontium cobalt cesium iodine etc into the open ocean full of microscopic and marine life and disrupt the ecology by ocean currents carrying it all over the world
Even Japanese are not willing to dump it to ocean lol
Are you fool or how?
The water that you drink right now has tritium albeit very small. Tritium is natural in ocean.
It is okay to release tritium in ocean because once it gets dilluted, it makes no difference. Its like pouring sea salt into ocean.
The main concern is, is the treated water only contains tritium ?. If its yes, then its okay, if its not. Then its not okay. Japan assure that the water only contains tritium.
That is the main point. Japan uses tritium as a smoke screen to conceal 60 other radioactive contaminants. The treatment system has proven to be inefficient.
@@hamydunn9183 ALPS removes all but the tritium.
@danadurnfordkevinblanchdeb5467 That is falsely claimed. At one time, 60% of the tanks still contain significant other contaminants. The company was caught, so they picked two tanks to repeat the treatment. Never heard about other tanks, again.
@@hamydunn9183 Wrong. Four countries have tested the water and found to be just as advertised.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk They tested samples offered by the company, not the samples they collected on their own.
Please send all seafood caught near Fukushima to Bharat (India)! We have millions of starving people here. We believe in IAEA!
Australia should call for an independent investigation on the truth about the radioactive waste water.
Why? The full Radioactive Effluent and Environmental reports are widely available online for all to see.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I would like to inquire about the crimes committed by Japan in its massacre of the people of China & Southeast Asia. Sorry, there is no such content in the Japanese database, which proves that Japan has never done such evil deeds.
why? it's wasting of time
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Sorry, we miss 大東亞共榮圈
@@fungj4126 i dont miss being massacred
"Im gonna eat squid that i said from Fukushima once and prove it is safe to eat"
Summary to his action.
It actually touched the core? The damage was intense.
why didnt he just drink the treated water himself
why didn't you drink the sea water?
would you like to drink waters in your toilet? Why don't you ask that same kind of question to US, Russia, and China? They're literally doing the same thing.
Do you drink sea water?
because the water is not diluted.
@@Hkchinese888 Is this the reason why you discharge harmful substances casually? IAEA experts offered many solutions, but Japan did not adopt him, but submitted its own plan for him to confirm. Japan has set a precedent for dealing with nuclear accidents. If the Soviets had been as irresponsible as the Japanese, 500k people would not have died that year.
The way we politicize even health issues is insane. No wonder we have high cases of cancer nowadays.
The whole food chain is affected and so human beings.
No matter wheter you agree with the release of the water or not, please don't hate Japan or Japanese people. Most of the population has nothing to do with this decision, and it's wrong to project your rage on a whole country full of different people, people who are probably suffering more than you from this whole situation.
It must be hard to deal with irrational behaviours and hate from people all over the world, just because some higher ups made a decision that you had no chance to voice your opinion about.
I'm still pretty neutral about this topic, but still, all of these comments saying Japan should water their farmlands with this or use it as drinking water or whatever are ridiculous. Yes they said it's safe, but it's WAY safer and less likely to have an effect when diluted in the sea. Repeatedly watering the same farmlands with this water would concentrate the radionuclides in the land and eventually in the food grown as well (which is by the way not only eaten by the Japanese, but also exported). Right now, according to the data we have, the concentration of the radionuclides is safe, which means diluting it will make it even safer. Concentrating the radionuclides more and more may eventually lead to a concentration deemed as unsafe.
Have a nice day
The water is already safe for consumption according to the JP govnt. It's already been diluted and filtered and decontaminated to the extent that the tritium content is lower than what you find in your own drinking water, so that they can finally release it into the ocean where it can be FURTHER diluted, not that it would be necessary as, again, the tritium content in the water is already lower than the WHO guidelines as is, again according to the JP govnt.
So by that logic they can absolutely reintroduce the water back into their own water supply, where it would also be further diluted anyway. There's nothing to concentrate. You actually get MORE concentrations of tritium from other sources of water for your drinking and irrigation purposes.
Easy to say, but wrong is wrong. And they want to restart building new nuclear plants. imagine that. Russia is hated too. Do you understand why? People need to impeach/overthrow leaders that go too far.
Ok if it's safe, pour it into your own lakes and reservoirs
Here’s a voice of reason and compassion. Unfortunate that most comments come from a place of ignorance and hate… I should just say ignorance because that is most often the root of hate anyways.
@@accountantthe3394 Then you should do the same for the tritiated water your country releases.
China should have no right to protest while releasing 3x or more times compared to japan.
Where did you find the source said so and did you watch carefully during this 1:35
@@mrthinker3058 Did YOU watch that segment carefully? The water is filtered and the only remaining contaminant is tritium.
@@perfectlyroundcircle so you want to blame other country meanwhile Japan will release nuclear water in large scale
japan is like a criminal and judge in one person who verdicts himself as not guilty
Sue JPN at International court. You can be a laughing stock.
All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water.
@@jeanmiyu6904 They don't trust international court, just like they ignored Hague's verdict.
@@Hkchinese888 I know haha. China and its ppls are just barking upon their sentiment and ignore scientific data iisued by authorized organization. Remark is barbaric Chinese who threw stones to Japanese children in the school and/or embassy in their country are existing.
just like China's doing it west Philippine Sea they lost the case in the International Court yet here they are..what can you say bout that?
“At this point, we’re unanimous in saying we don’t see enough information to support dumping the radioactively contaminated water into the ocean,” said Professor Robert Richmond of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, who has conducted marine conservation research in the Pacific for more than four decades.
Yet all countries in the world operating nuclear power plants have been dumping radioactively contaminated water into the ocean for decades.
“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.”
Prof Paul Leonard, Fellow of the Society for Radiological Protection and a Chartered Radiation Professional, said:
“Nuclear power stations are licensed to operate within specified limits that are based on international standards in terms of radiological risk. The proposed discharge of tritium from Fukushima is being undertaken under suitable conditions and in radiological terms, the environmental impact on the public and seafood is negligible. Appropriate seafood monitoring should continue to be undertaken to provide reassurance.”
There is difference between “contaminated” water dumped from Fukushima and “cooling” water discharged from normal operations of other nuclear power plants. Yes, they both contain tritium, but there are other radioactive contaminants in the “contaminated” water. Any such comparison is simply misleading, which is unfortunate for everyone on this planet.
@@allenkfan The water had been filtered as explained at 3:00
you just put politic over scientific facts.
Tokyo bay 0,1 mSv/h
Fukushima bay 0,10 mSv/h
Hangzhou bay..... 0,215 mSv/h
Then suddenly, the whistleblower disappear...
nice, any source?
@@eddyevodiusccp
@@eddyevodiussure, open your browser and type: radiation measurement sea. You're welcome kid.
So if tritium is the only "significant" radionuclide left after filtering, does that mean there's some other "insignificant" radionuclides that are still in the released water?
Yes, but their effects are negligible and insignificant.
Reason: Less half life
so the half life of plutonium is 24.4 thousand years. how about the other 61?
@@chillmint1726yeah, that means u should drink a lot. Talk the talk, walk the walk. 4 out of 10 greatest environmental hazards in history have been caused by your Japanese. Why would us international society place more trust in ur Japanese? Try admit and show your apologies to the atrocities u had done during World War II beforehand and we can start talking about lifting the trade ban. LOVE From USA！🎉
So basically, you don't know what "insignificant" means.
Well done.
@@drunkenmonkey1887 Well it's just that I usually don't see people calling radionuclides insignificant, but I'm sure you know what radionuclides are, right?
Squids feed on deep water fish. Unlikely to be found near shore, or nuclear plants.
That’s octopus…
Japan gets all the attention.... but.
Meanwhile other countries dumping raw sewage and sometimes nuclear waste into the ocean:
Nuclear sewage: water in direct contact with nuclear fuel; Nuclear waste water: it does not directly contact nuclear fuel, but only plays an indirect role in cooling
Hyping this issues without science backing show people true colors.
irony is suddenly everyone is concern about environment
Tritium is a critical primary fuel (along with Deuterium) for current fusion experiments and then future commercial fusion reactors a hundred or so years from now. I wonder if Fukushima can collect that tritium? 🤔
Who was it that tried to eat the three- eyed Springfield fish on the Simpsons?
If it is safe, please make that water into the bottles and let all the people in Japan to drink it! It only takes 7 day to finish the whole stock!
Plot twist: They did, so those "nuclear waste water" are actually safe water.😂
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It's not just how they dillute tritium.
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.
All that typing and no links. Chinese bot, likely.
Very very similar to other posts with different authors.
@@OrmondOtvossorry you don't have the braincells to take what you read and conduct your own research. Maybe you're the bot here?
The difference is the transparency in communication. Japan is very transparent about their actions. China lost a nuclear sub last month in the Taiwan Strait and suffered a large outbreak of radiation in an Ordos mine this month. But it’s all kept secret. That’s exactly why the radiation in China in many locations is extremely high. Nobody knew this until the moment that Chinese citizens started to buy radiation detectors on a mass scale. Better eat Fukushima fish then live in a Shanghai apartment.
If you think Japanese is very transparent, you are very wrong. There are incidents where corporations cover up their mistakes here in Japan. One of them the Kobe Steel incident where steel that did not meet requirements was sent to Boeing. Another is the Toshiba incident where they faked their accountings. That said, yes Japan is more transparent but no, they are not 100% transparent and trustworthy.
oh hey we got a last samurai here in comment. licking japan @ss doesnt birth you kawaii anime girl ok. take a bath
Committing a crime with transparency is still committing a crime.
Why the Japan government let other countries jointly witness the entire testing process ?
@whywhy6706 You mean "why not"?
Four countries have tested the water and the Japan water release plan meets all international industry safety standards.
They did. The whole thing was carried out with full cooperation, observation and assessment by the IAEA and UN.
Music is too loud, distracting and not needed
SCMP: What is tritium? The radioactive element that caused controversy during the Fukushima water release
Me: What is radioactive? The elements that caused controversy during the Fukushima water release
Scmp is asia most trusted news source
I regularly watch your video and I like it from being engineering civil profession I admire it
This nuclear plant debate over hanging of nagasaki and hiroshima nuclear disaster
here is the another 99 material that not goes to public information. dont forget the main Nuclear not just tritium many material contain it inside that
What about other nuclear power plants in other countries? Do they also regularly released their waste water?
No other country has a melted down core. The only other case would be Chernobyl, and if Chernobyl nuclear contaminated water is to be dumped into the ocean, the western world would explode in condemnation.
I bet you didn't watch the video before commenting?
Yes.
This is nuclear sewage, not nuclear waste water. Nuclear sewage directly contacts nuclear fuel. Nuclear waste water is only used for indirect cooling
Once the reports come in it’s gonna be too late…..
How about we measure and monitor the tritium levels in every sea in the world.
They already do.
The Hong Kong guy lies, IAEA has done independent sampling as well.
The element in Japan's nuclear sewage is not just tritium, but more than 60 substances. If Japan thinks there are no problems, please give the people two liters of water to drink every day and use it to irrigate crops every day. Why not implement it?
You're nothing more a blockheaded little jay. Such substances in the waste water are clarified before duscharging.
Or you could have looked up the system they are using called ALPS that removes all but the tritium.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I think they have a point though. Why release it into the ocean when it can be used to irrigate crops and give water to people? It's a mystery but its a very iffy situation
@@matthewpark3104because it's called dilution, a bit more effort would have helped you.
Do you drink waste water from your toilet?
I love China and Japan but I did have a laugh when the Chinese fellow said that he didn't know if he could trust Japanese scientists and engineers. China does the best at many things but I'd definitely trust a Japanese person in the realms of science and engineering foremost
You know why because of what japan did in the past，people in china cant never forget what japan did
If there is no conflict of interest, I may believe your remarks while Japanese scientists maintain their independence
How about strontium 90? That is worse than tritium and is absorbed directly into bones…. Why only focus on tritium?
Because ALPS removes all but the tritium.
You already have radioactive strontium in your bones, as do I. Part of the legacy of the nuclear bomb tests of the 60s.
why is it able to remove everything else but tritium?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
If there is no significant impact of the tritium waste water, can Japan answers why they weren't using it as domestic water?
Flushing toilet etc
Where do you think your toilet water goes after you flush lol
where Godzilla?
everybody can say it is safe after japan's PM and his family swim in it, and nothing happened
Between fossil fuel hunger & crude nuclear practices, PRC China emits a lot more. Plus, tritium had a short half-life.
I’d be more worried about mercury poisoning caused by mainland China.
Please educate yourself on the terms used and subject before talking about them
@@SmileB4uDie ok, esp. since you used the magic word. Have a nice day mate. 😎
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University of Portsmouth,
Brunel University,
Portsmouth Polytechnic,
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Are these chicken universities? QS ranking:500
@@Hkchinese888 why?
@@Hkchinese888 Your brain is about to go crazy
@@Hkchinese888 Is your brain okay?
@@ToiChutGongWu
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Focusing on only one nuclear contaminated element and equating nuclear power cooling water discharge with contaminated materials directly in contact with nuclear meltdown is disingenuous propaganda.
You are disingenuous for not acknowledging that ALPS removes all but the tritium.
You've zero understanding of anything in the nuclear field and yet you make such claims?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunkThat's TEPCO claim but no independent testing allowed. Calling "treated" is misleading. Nuclear radioactive contaminated water cannot be treated. It can only be filtered or diluted. Using sea water to dilute the contaminated water defeat the purpose because the same amount of contaminants will still be dump into the sea.
@@QuietJagungyeah it's filtered of everything except tritium then it's diluted thus resulting safe. Do you understand every poison is dangerous above specific quantities? Dilution reduces concentration thus health danger.
YOU CAN'T REMOVE TRITIUM. CHINA DOES THE SAME AND THEIR WATER IS UNTREATED.@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
You can trust no one, they're all liars. Except the one guy in the comment section, I trust him. Believe me.
100%, I will also trust the commenter instead of the professionals and field experts ong
Is this the limit of scmp reporters?
Is the concern only limited to tritium? Is the so called ALPS has enough scientific data to support the system capable of filtering all other hazardous radioactive isotope ?
If ALPS wasn't functional, it would be very apparent in the measurements of the water being released.
Why no more reports about that ALPS filtration? I don't think it is only ttitium everyone should be worring about?
Look it up on Google. It's well explained both on the Internet and at the United Nations. It is discharged while inspecting together with IAEA and other countries such as South Korea. ALPS treatment is a treatment that eliminates radioactive substances other than tritium. Even though all the facilities and information are open to the public, China does not discuss or investigate.
ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I worried about it too😁😁
Before 🇺🇸 with covid
Today 🇯🇵 with radioactive water
it is not the tritium that causes the pollution
it is the radioactive heavy metals
tritium is isotope of hydrogen, not heavy metal
they are 2 different things
The heavy metals aren't part of the release. There's a filtering system that removes everything but tritium.
@@TheBleggh so how the fish outside fukushima contain radioactive heavy metal 148 times higher than acceptable limit?
@@kenho-wr5ul2rh7m They don't.
@@TheBleggh they do
@@TheBleggh i just recite Victor Gao's comment, if u believe the water is safe, transport the water back to ur country and pour them into ur crop field
dont be a hypocrite
Japan is surrounded by the ocean, and we have a culture to eat fish as a main dish for a long time history, instead of eating meat like the Western. Do you think the Japanese government judge to release contaminated waste water into the ocean, which cause cancer and other health problem letting your people die in the end? if the water is contaminated, then the biggest victim would be the Japanese because the consumption of fish is huge. Japan is doing its best to transparent the data of those investigated water regularly. The criticism always ends with doubting/believing about the data. The Data is everything and it is based on a scientific basis. if you doubt the fact then why would you believe the scientific knowledge learned from school books? So the opponents's criticism is based on their emotions, and the emotion behind is the hatred of Japan. "The hatred of Japan" emotion is commonly exploited to prevent a citizen from protesting against their government in China and Korea. China is facing an economic crisis triggered by huge Real estate companies so the Chinese goverment has to cover the news with the Japanese nuclear water in order to divert public dissatisfaction. And finnaly why would Japanese fisher man also protest against the nuclear waste water? its easy answer, their earnings are selling fish, and they are worried theincome and living, if the reputation of their fish goes bad and no one buys it. It is not only matter of Japanese consumer, they export fish to Asia so the reputation from gobal is important to not affect their living by losing the income. Saying it more easy, if China or Korea or other countries would have some health issue, Japanese will vanish and disappear before that.
totally agree with you
Pls read Minamata disease, mecury release from Chisso Corp.. release by japanese to their own people. I only say that due to greed, these politicians and corporate elits care less of their own people..... Not just one country is voicing concerned, if you think is only China, then you are highly miss informed.
why do we have industrial farming instead of organic local small scale farming? why does agriculture giants like Monsanto use dangerous and harmful pesticides and herbicides and get away with it? because of government lobbying and because of short term profits or reducing your cost of business,;and because the people that are alive now don't have to live with the long term consequences.... you can find plethora of examples in our age of capitalism no? and at a time when u.s. led west desperately needs japan as their regional ally against china - yes things like these will be given a pardon. something that would've normally be strongly opposed or questioned by the west then turns into something that's hardly covered by their media. both of these are logical enough answer to your questions. Why did the u.s. nuke japan? even back then people knew of the danger of nuclear weapons and their lingering effects... yet in times of war, when big powers are fighting for primacy, that thought was disregarded. just like uk and u.s. sending depleted uranium shells to ukraine? or the ridiculous amount of these depleted uranium shells that the u.s. dropped in south east asia, in afghanistan, in iraq, etc. the usage of it is banned now technically because they have severe effects to the people living in that region for generations to come. yet, why is it still okay to use? you don't hear western media condemning themselves do you? well, because when countries are struggling for power in the geopolitical landscape..... there's often times no right or wrong. You are basing all your assumptions about the world on the idea that humans are perfect and logical and have the ability to control their greed and fear. sadly, we are not as righteous and flawless as you think we are. do you know why many west african nations are having coups and overthrowing their government and having a strong anti-colonial and anti-french movement right now? hmm... why is it that 'international news' like bbc, cnn, france24, dw, skynews, etc, etc.... why is it that they never really focus on what's going on in the region or discuss about 'Françafrique' or the 'CFA Franc' ? CFA Franc, where west african nations are forced to deposit 50% of their country's money to france's banks - (money that these impoverished african countries can't use to develop themselves, yet france can utilize this money (someone else's money) to invest and create a profit for themselves. or that 1 out of 3 light bulb in france is powered by the uranium from Niger (west africa), while Niger is kept impoverished by these colonial rules and treaties that were imposed on them? The world isn't as black and white as you think it is. even the west who preaches about human rights and democracy. behind the guises are often strategic interests and economic interests - most of the times both.
Then Japan should use the water to irrigate their farmland.
@@Dept246 This is not debatable. No one would like to use the waste water to irrigate the farmland, no matter where the waste water is coming from. or if you wish it, Its meaning you want to irrigate the farmland with Nulear waste water from Chinese Nuclear plant which contains 6x tritium than the waste water from Fukushima plant. its your choice.
The IAEA's report specifically say that the report is NOT an endorsement by the agency, yet SCMP claims it's an endorsement. What kind of research has SCMP done before making this video???
The IAEA chief has stated repeatedly that the Japan water release plan meets all international industry safety standards.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk That does not make it an endorsement. Go read the report please. It's the disclaimer on the first page.
@@jonnyqi You need to read a real report, the IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS Treated water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station the First Interlabratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water.
Long story short:
International laws apply to Japan in dumping radioactive contaminated waters into the ocean, but the laws dont apply to other countries?
Clap clap clap.
The hypocrisy.
They using japan action to cover themselves
All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released this same tritiated water.
CCP complaining about dangerous stuff being released into sea is very funny 😂
Not just CCP, but also Chinese people fear.
I don’t mind if you drink Japanese nuclear wastewater live. Haven't you seen the Korean people protesting and marching?
There is public opposition in China, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. Can’t you see? ?
@@rubylee5754 How many haven’t been marching.
How long do people they know about that, long before Japan does?
If it is safe, than use it as drinking water or for watering plants.
If the water is PERFECTLY safe, why don't you use it on YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR CROPS and TO FEED YOUR KIDS?
They are. The water is being released in Japanese waters my dude. Besides the pacific ocean naturally contains many times more tritium compared to the wastewater.
@@orbitalpotato9940 Just gonna give an example to put my previous comments into perspective: Taipei uses more than 30K metric tones of water just for cleaning roads. Tokyo is a MUCH BIGGER city and needs 100K metric tones. Japan released 460 tones per day, barely enough to scratch the surface of what Tokyo needs. So why BOTHER RELEASING INTO THE OCEAN?
@@wolfu7264 because the titrated water hasn't been diluted yet. It's really not that hard to understand.
my goodness! China's audacity in complaining about Japan's decision to release nuclear wastewater into the ocean is funny.
Based on this video, how come only Japan got backlash from this issue when other countries do the same but released more? Are Japan criticized by other countries just because they have bad history? Countries' ministers and people being bias just because they don't like Japan? Or people are just not aware other power plants (and their own country) has been doing the same for years?
Just to be clear, I'm not on Japan's side by asking this nor others, just neutral.
No the waste water is not the same as explained in the video. In normal standard operation water is used to cool the nuclear vessel (that contains radioactive nuclear fuel, ie water is not in direct contact with the radioactive matter) to prevent meltdown yet the water still becomes tritiated in this process, in Fukushima a meltdown occurred causing the vessel to rupture leaking nuclear fuel directly into the water and contaminating it with 60 dangerous radionucleotides. Japan and its nuclear operator TEPCO claims their filtration system can effectively remove these nuclear contaminants leaving just tritium. There lacks neutral 3rd party verification that the filtration system works, water samples provided by Japan and not collected by a neutral 3rd party is meaningless. Tritium levels itself is a trivial matter and arguably used as a distraction from the actual problem.
@BluBarry1215 They already clearly stated, the nuclear waste water from Japan is in DIRECT contact with the radioactive molten core, unlike other nuclear waste water that arent in direct contact with the radioactive core. When in direct contact, there are MANY more radionuclides as stated. They just brushed it off as "oh Japan says its clear so lets just trust them". Literally the source is living example of "trust me bro".
@@GeoT91 ALPS removes all but the tritium. It is identical to what other countries release.
@@yerri5567 You L l E very badly.
The reason for the narrow backlash is China and South Korea (who release more tritiated water than Japan does) decided to use the Japan water release as R A C l S T propaganda.
china does the same but doesnt treat it so
Really? There was a nuclear power plants leak? And contimitaed water ?
I never heard of it 🤔🤔🤔
@@maneil9297 ALPS removes all but the tritium, so the water is identical.
says who?@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
There are many nuclear power plants in the world, but there are only two nuclear power plants leaking, and only one nuclear power plant carrying a large amount of radioactive sewage discharged into the sea.
@@vincefang5269 The water is treated by ALPS which removes all but the tritium, so your false opinion is moot.
So what happens after 50 or 100 years when all the fishes and squids around Fukushima waters turn into Godzillas and Japanese people also become mutated and become shorter like their ancestors? Can always buy, eat and get fish and squid from elsewhere, isn't it, just to be on the safe side in case the grandchildren also turn into Godzilla's. What's the fuss?
Qanonsense much?
who cares what happens after 100 years
The fuss is that all those scenarios you mentioned are backed up by 0 science and only happens in your dreams. You probably base off whatever you see of science fiction movies you watched. If what you said were to happen it would've happen by now because nuclear power plants have been dumping tritium into the water for DECADES.
I won't believe it if they don't pump those water for their own citizen to drink.
Then you should do the same for the tritiated water your country releases.
They sent their own citizens to start a war and die, can you believe that ?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Idiot My country don't have nuclear reactor.
you shouldn't worry as no other countries ever experience nuclear contaminated water like japan. so stop playing your whataboutism here@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
The president of South Korea is acting like Japan's watchdog, even approving their worst actions. Right now, Japan is throwing radioactive water into the sea without being punished. But instead of protecting his people, the South Korean president is trying to show it's not dangerous by eating seafood from that area. It's a huge betrayal and a disrespect to all the citizens he should be defending!
Chinese nuclear plants produce tritiated water, as do Korean nuclear plants.
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Tritium? Why does Japan want everyone's attention to tritium? Carbon 14 from Japan's nuclear polluted water says hello.
the Fukushima Fishing Association's strong objection was silenced by the government. All fishermen were warned to not speak to medias or publics. Japanese government does not dare to release the treated contaminated water into local streams or soils yet dump it into the Pacific Ocean despite protest from all neighboring countries. What a shame.
If you release it into the ocean you can dilute it so that its harmless. there's not enough volume in streams to do that.
There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk great, then drink it shill
There is "not enough information about the effects of waste water". UNTIL THERE IS. Lols
Haha .the Japanede have been secretive if a war erupts between China & Japan we would not be shocked if Japan unleash Godzilla😂
Are you 10 years old?
Judging by the comments, there is a lots of nuclear energy experts all of sudden... Why not put those big brains to work the solution?
If is save use it for showing and watering flowers and drink it..
IT'S SEA WATER
Tritium is NOT the only significant radioactive element left. APLS cannot filter carbon 14 either. It’s a purposeful misinformation and misdirection to focus only on tritium.
No, your purpose is misinformation and fear mongering. The levels Carbon -14 range from 2 to 220 denigrations per second. Even if you drank two litters a day of the 220 Bq substance you would be at 1/5 the yearly dose allowed by a US rad workers. So if you put this into the ocean and it gets diluted then no harm to anyone. It cant harm you if you drank it from the tank it wont harm anyone if it goes into the ocean.
not dare to eat now.
Then you never should have eaten in your whole life. All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water.
Eat it all but please don't ship to the US.
I think that we could to find the common sense of the north Korea and their military action bcs they conduct nuclear war's tests on the ocean 😁😁😁🙏🙏
No wonder China and neighbouring countries protest so hard…
Kishida: make sure the fish is from USA east coast before the conference commence.
Fish might take longer to absorbed higher quantity of radiation to cause health related issues. Months or years of exposure to the waste water.
The half life of tritium is around 12 years, the biological half life of tritium is around 9 days (aka you pre it out) so you would drown yourself long before you get enough tritium in your system to be hazardous.
It's possible that the fish for the tester in the bowl was already prepared, most likely it was fish imported from the US. ---- If nuclear water is safe and risk-free to fish, why not simply dump it in their local lake? Such as the Okutadami man-made lake, which is not connected to the sea.
Because such a lake wouldn't be diluted enough
@@Junispro31 They say nuclear water is as safe as any other water. So why does it need to be diluted?
@@agape.ahimsa omfg. It is NOT as safe as water. It contains Tritium, which needs to be diluted to a certain level to be harmless
@@agape.ahimsa Fukushima dilutes the water till it is chemically similar to Nuclear cooling water, which all nuclear plants around the world dumps into the ocean
@@agape.ahimsathe precautionary principle
It is ok to release if there is no other way but should use the water inside their country for 2 years before release. This way it shows it is safe. I still don’t trust them.
Not until someone swim in it , I will believe it is safe
They do use tritium for night lights 😂
So many hypocrisy in this video. First is if the tritiated water is safe, why dont they just use it for public bath house and/or drinking water. Second is when china spoke about their demand for 3rd party evaluation on the case, like bruh, did you mention the same thing about covid origin in your country?!
NO🚫this is Horrible ☠️we must force the evil stop❗️
Radiation can be treated!??? Wheres thw source!??
Drink the water that is being release.!!!!
Then you drink the tritiated water your country releases.
The processed water having “Only tritium” is when the whole episode becomes irrelevant… No, there is no evidence only tritium left. But there are many evidence that Japan lies on this matter. Ultimately, if it is safe, drink it or at least use it for irrigation. Water is precious resource for Japan.
Can't they use the tritium to create a small sun?
Hasnt releasing radioactive waste into the sea been banned since 1993?
You keep saying that and you were shown that all NPP release the same tritiated water and the Japan water release plan meets all international industry safety standards.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I keep asking because I have yet to receive a proper answer. And I have STILL yet to receive a proper answer.
And like I said: 'there hasnt been any comprehensive studies on these radioactive isotopes to determine whats considered a "safe level". And all these "green lights" being given are all based on unconfirmed estimations not from any real life scenario. Everything unprecedented. Nothings "confirmed" to be safe. Take their "green lights" with a grain of salt.'
So all these "international industry safety standards" mean nothing if theres literally no comprehensive study on the long term effects of these "safety levels".
All nuclear power plants release tritium. It's simply what happens when water molecules capture two neutrons.
@@yerri5567 Wow, how often do you think you can get away with LY l N G and not get called out? Four countries have tested the water and I will cite the IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS Treated water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station the First Interlabratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk If you keep repeating yourself, then Ill also need to repeat my answer to you:
'Like I said, in another comment Ill say it here again because you dont seem to understand. 'There has been NO long term comprehensive study on the effects of radioactive isotopes on marine and by extension human life to determine what levels are to be considered "safe" levels. Only ESTIMATES. And ESTIMATES on something thats NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE is NOT to be taken as the "gold standard". Until there actually has been comprehensive long term radioactive tests done ON HUMANS and passed ALL the green lights, THEN theses IAEA, TEPCO, international nuclear organisations etc words might have weight. Until then, all these "benchmarks" or "regulatory limits" are merely just UNCONFIRMED ESTIMATES with NO human studies to back these numbers up'
That is JAPAN...
those are idiots, I have a solution: You can always use the same water and not contaminate new water.
Drink the water directly la ...
Drink China’s tap water.
I say this million times... if safe Japan should just use for themselves instead pour into ocean 😅
First mutants to appear in a decade!
Trust me guys.. Japan still better than US and Canada..😅😅
Reputation is for psychopaths .
What’s the USA using on their ammunition in Ukraine? Oh that’s right it’s radioactive waste…
If the water are safe, the japan prime minister have to drink the water to proof us the water is safe
Then your country should also drink the tritiated water you release.
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