Just in case a global viral pandemic, whose sources are still unclear and apparently now include human feces, wasn't enough, the global outrage meter is about to go "Up to eleven" with Japan now set to flood the world's oceans with radioactive water.
In a move that will surely prompt a furious response from Greta Thunberg's ghost writers, a panel of experts advising Japan's government on a disposal method for the millions of tons of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday recommended releasing it into the ocean.
Japan's neighbor, South Korea, has for much of the past decade retained a ban on imports of seafood from Japan's Fukushima region imposed after the nuclear disaster and summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last year to explain how the Fukushima water would be dealt with.
Perhaps in an attempt to mitigate the angry outcry from a world that is suddenly obsessed with a clean environment, Japan said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that cannot be effectively removed with current technology.
"Compared to evaporation, ocean release can be done more securely," the committee said, pointing to common practice around the world where normally operating nuclear stations release water that contains tritium into the sea.
Needless to say, even the locals disagree: releasing treated water into the ocean would do "Immeasurable damage" to a fishing sector that has tried hard to get back to work, an industry source in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki said.
The roughly 1,000 tanks on the Fukushima Daiichi site held 1.18 million tons of water as of Dec. 12, not far from the total capacity of 1.37 million.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/japan-set-release-12-million-tons-radioactive-fukushima-water-ocean-causing-immeasurable
In a move that will surely prompt a furious response from Greta Thunberg's ghost writers, a panel of experts advising Japan's government on a disposal method for the millions of tons of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant on Friday recommended releasing it into the ocean.
Japan's neighbor, South Korea, has for much of the past decade retained a ban on imports of seafood from Japan's Fukushima region imposed after the nuclear disaster and summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last year to explain how the Fukushima water would be dealt with.
Perhaps in an attempt to mitigate the angry outcry from a world that is suddenly obsessed with a clean environment, Japan said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that cannot be effectively removed with current technology.
"Compared to evaporation, ocean release can be done more securely," the committee said, pointing to common practice around the world where normally operating nuclear stations release water that contains tritium into the sea.
Needless to say, even the locals disagree: releasing treated water into the ocean would do "Immeasurable damage" to a fishing sector that has tried hard to get back to work, an industry source in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki said.
The roughly 1,000 tanks on the Fukushima Daiichi site held 1.18 million tons of water as of Dec. 12, not far from the total capacity of 1.37 million.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/japan-set-release-12-million-tons-radioactive-fukushima-water-ocean-causing-immeasurable
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