Japan To Dump Nuclear Waste In Ocean

Since 1993 ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties.

Energia nuclear informacion united states kansas. Japans decision to dump 1 million tons of nuclear waste water into the ocean will damage peoples health and harm its global image the latter is detrimental to investment. Nearly a decade after the fukushima nuclear disaster japans government has decided to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water into the sea media reports said on friday with a. Japan pushes forward with plans to dump radioactive water into ocean despite public opposition.

The panel added that. 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. Japan announced plans to dump 920000 tons of nuclear waste from the fukushima nuclear plant into the pacific ocean.

Massive amounts of toxic water from the fukushima dai ichi nuclear power plant in japan has to be dumped into the pacific ocean because the facility is running out of space the countrys. 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. Although they have been weighing such a plan for several years to date the.

Japans economic ministry organized a subcommittee of experts several months ago to compile a proposal for the contaminated waters disposal according to the asahi shimbun. Plans to dump the water into the ocean. Tokyo may dump contaminated water as early as september.

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.