The imminent water release comes more than a decade after Japan was rocked by the second-worst nuclear disaster in history.
Japan says the process of releasing the filtered and diluted water is a necessary step of decommissioning the plant and that a relatively swift solution is needed because the storage tanks holding the treated water will soon reach their capacity.
it sees no scientific problem with the plan to release the treated water. It made clear in a statement issued on Tuesday, however, that the government "does not necessarily agree with or support the plan."to rally against Japan's plan to dispose of the treated water into the ocean.
It "poses the question as to how the Fukushima water became such a PR nightmare, given that from a radiation safety perspective the tritium is essentially harmless," he continued. "The underlying problem is that the release sounds bad. The typical person isn't aware that their own body is radioactive, nor do they have a sense of scale of how much radiation is a lot, nor how much is little.
"Fundamentally this is why the Fukushima water is a total non-issue — there is already a small amount of tritium around us and the tiny extra bit won't matter one jot."the release of treated wastewater from the nuclear plant, fearing that it could affect regional resources and the livelihood of coastal communities.they were "deeply disappointed and outraged" by Japan's decision to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
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