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FUKUSHIMA: WHO WILL DRINK JAPAN’S 1.3 BILLION LITRES OF RADIOACTIVE WATER?
- Author(s):
- John Paull (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Internet Conference
- Conf. Org.:
- Wayscienc
- Conf. Loc.:
- Dnipro, Ukraine
- Conf. Date:
- July 27-28, 2023
- Tag(s):
- Nuclear waste, nucclear accident, Japan, nuclear energy, industrial pollution
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/2amk-n863
- Abstract:
- Japan has a radioactive waste problem - more than 1.3 billion litres of radioactive water that has been used to cool the wreck of the Fukushima nuclear reactors. This Fukushima water (Fuku-water) is now stored on-site in tanks (Fig.1).The Fuku-water has been accumulated by Japan over the past 12 years - since three nuclear reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant “went into meltdown” in 2011; there are now more than 1.3 million tonnes of contaminated water (circa 1.3 billion litres). There is a proposal that Japan will ‘dispose’ of its Fuku-water problem by pumping it into the Pacific Ocean over forthcoming decades [1]. There is pushback to this plan from Japan’s fishing communities, and neighbours, including China, South Korea, North Korea, and island nations of the Pacific.
- Notes:
- It is incumbent on Japan to nationalise, not globalise, its Fuku-water problem. Japan needs to solve its nuclear waste problem at its own expense, on its own territory, and now - and not at the expense of the world and for generations to come. For Japan to use the world’s oceans as a dumping ground for its radioactive waste stockpile creates a dreadful precedent. We need to protect the oceans - not to use them as a convenient and free radioactive waste dump.
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