Today at 12:00 noon Beijing time (13:00 local time in Japan), Japan's nuclear contaminated water was officially discharged into the ocean. Nuclear sewage discharge Experts in Pacific island countries have proposed using nuclear sewage to build dry concrete infrastructure, but Japan has opposed it...
Those in the South Pacific, who have suffered for decades from the fallout of a U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, are particularly skeptical of the promises of safety. In November 2022, a group representing more than a dozen countries in the Pacific, including Australia and the Ma...
The Japanese government held a meeting on the morning of April 13 and formally decided to discharge Fukushima nuclear waste water into the sea. In order to appease the people and publicize the safety of tritium, "radioactive ...
但中国与绝大部分国家、国际组织都称其为“核污染水”(nuclear contaminated wastewater)。 Both the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in their official documents insist calling it "treated nuclear waste water"; yet China, along with most ...
Since then, workers have been using a lot of water to keep them cool. The water touches the reactors, so it has a lot of radioactive materials (射性物 ).Nuclear wastewater ( 核废水) is different from nuclear-contaminated water. It's the waste from a normal (正常的) power plant. The...
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has repeatedly claimed that the treated water it plans to discharge is diluted to national safety standards. People hold signs which bear messages against the dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean during a protest ...
"The marine environment is under extreme pressure from climate change, overfishing and resource extraction. Yet, the G7 thinks it's acceptable to endorse plans to deliberately dump nuclear waste into the ocean. Politics inside the G7 at Sapporo just trumped science, environmental protection, and ...
Japan has started releasing(释放) its waste into the ocean. But this is not the kind of wastewater that we know is very serious to ocean water quality. It is related to the radioactive isotope(原子能放射物) that has been used in the country's nuclear(核) power plant(福岛) since an ...
Leaders from multiple Pacific island countries call upon the Japanese government to immediately stop its plans to dump nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean. Fiji's Acting Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica said that Fiji has been on very high alert since Japan announced the planned release, asking if...
Japan began dumping the radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power into the sea on Aug 24, and recently Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the damaged Fukushima plant, announced that the first round of the release of the "treated" nuclear-contaminated water was complete...