Japan Dumping Nuclear Waste In Ocean

The operator of the ruined fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the pacific ocean japans environment.

Nuclear powered cars pros and cons. Plans to dump the water into the ocean. Since 1993 ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties. Japan has millions of tons of water that is has been using to cool the destroyed fukushima nuclear power plant and its unclear where the water will go.

Although they have been weighing such a plan for several years to date the. Tokyo may dump contaminated water as early as september storage tanks for water contaminated with radioactive matter from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. Aug172020 during the past three months while the international community was focused on the covid 19 pandemic the japanese government has held five public hearings as it moves forward with its decision.

A panel of experts advising japans government on a disposal method for radioactive water from the destroyed fukushima nuclear has recommended dumping it into the pacific ocean. From 1946 through 1993 thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclearradioactive wastethe waste materials included both liquids and solids housed in various containers as well as reactor vessels with and without spent or damaged nuclear fuel. The fukushima power plant experienced a triple meltdown in march 2011 after a magnitude 90 earthquake and tsunami devastated the area surrounding the plant.

Japans new prime minister yoshihide suga is to dump over 12 million tons of radioactive fukushima water into the ocean as a way to reduce the costs of the 200 billion nuclear plant clean up. I have been a scientist in the field of the earth and environmental sciences for 33 years specializing in geologic disposal of nuclear waste energy related research planetary surface processes.