NAMIE (Japan), Aug 24 — Engineers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were due to start releasing wastewater today in an operation that Japan insists is safe but which has...
NAMIE , Aug 24 — Engineers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were due to start releasing wastewater today in an operation that Japan insists is safe but which has angered China and caused unease elsewhere.
Monitors from the UN atomic watchdog, which has endorsed the plan, will be on site for the procedure, while workers from plant operator Tepco will be tasked with taking water and fish samples.Three of the reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi facility in northeastern Japan went into meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed around 18,000 people in 2011.
“Hence, it poses very little risk and the risk itself decreases with time due to the relatively short radioactive half life... meaning that the amount of tritium continually reduces.”Not everyone is convinced, with environmental group Greenpeace saying that the filtration process is flawed, and China and Russia suggesting the water be vaporised and released into the atmosphere instead.
“If more than half of my Japan-imported ingredients are affected, then it would be difficult for me to continue to operate.”
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