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 ...
Japan says it will start releasing radioactive(放射性的) water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear center into the sea beginning in two years. The polluted water is to be treated before it is released into the Pacific Ocean. The government announced the plan Tuesday and said it had been appr...
Japan says the water will be filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate from water. The treated water will be diluted to well below internationally approved levels of tritium before being released into the Pacific. The wat...
except tritium. countries that care for the environment view all 14 slides tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen that occurs naturally and is also a byproduct of producing electricity at nuclear power plants. it cannot be filtered out of the nuclear wastewa...
Protesters gather on Tuesday outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo during a rally against the Japanese government's plan to release radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP Japan announced on Tuesday that it will start releasing nuclear-contaminated water from the destroye...
Japan unilaterally decided in April 2021 that it plans to release radioactive water that has accumulated at the crisis-hit Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean. The toxic water, stored in tanks at the plant, is expected to soon reach capacity. The water contains radioactive tritium as it wa...
Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean from Aug. 24 日本将从 8 月 24 日起将福岛核污水排入海洋 From:Reuters Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24...
Recently, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delivered a safety review report on Japan's plan to release nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, saying that its discharge meets international safety standards. ...
"Nobody wants to dump (radioactive substances) into the ocean," said David Krofcheck, senior lecturer in the faculty of science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. "We need to be aware of the difference between tritium...
Most of the radioactive isotopes have been removed from the water, the BBC notes in its report, but one, tritium, remains. However, scientists say that it is not particularly threatening to humans or animals, especially when diluted in billions of tons of water in the Pacific ...