Despite opposition, Japan will start releasing radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean this week.
. "It is not a sewer for Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water. Japan is putting its selfish interests above the long-term wellbeing of the entire humanity."Negligible Impacton the plans, concluding that if released slowly into the ocean, the water would have a "negligible radiological impact to people and the environment."
But it's not entirely without risk. Officials at plant operator Tepco have also since admitted that traces of radioactive isotopes, including tritium and carbon-14, could still be present in the water, as they're extremely difficult to remove.notes, other nuclear plants already release wastewater with higher levels of tritium.
"As long as the discharge is carried out as planned, radiation doses to people will be vanishingly small — more than a thousand times less than doses we all get from natural radiation every year," Jim Smith, environmental science professor at the University of Portsmouth, told the
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