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 Marshall Islands, urged Tokyo to defer the wastewater releases.
Japan’s nuclear regulator approved plans by the operator of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to release treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year, saying the environmental hazards are negligible. The plan was submitted in December by Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO), based ...
Sean Burney:Greenpeace's first concern is the situation of communities in Fukushima Prefecture, including the fishing industry, because they will be the first and the worst victims if Japan decides to dump its nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean. Simultaneously, radioactive substances will spread t...
A decision by Japan poses a risk of pollution of radioactive waste on Indian shores. Japan has decided to gradually drain the radioactively contaminated water of the Fukushima nuclear plant destroyed in the sea from 2022 onwards in the 2011 tsunami. This decision has been taken on October 16 ...
This chapter summarizes the current strategy and policy for radioactive waste management in Japan which has been hindered by a lack of public acceptance and of a final high level waste end-point (geological repository). Ongoing decommissioning of several nuclear facilities, including the Tokai-1 ...
In April last year, the Japanese government officially decided to discharge the nuclear contaminated water into the sea starting in the spring of 2023. The contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant contains radioactive cesium, strontium, tritium and other radioactive substances. ...
How about the disposal of high level radioactive waste into the Japan Trench and the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake 喜欢 0 阅读量: 41 作者:Hisashi Nirei,Tomoyo Hiyama,Osamu Kazaoka,Kazuya Kimura,Takashi Kusuda,Hideyo Takahata ...
At a time point of 2002, there is no country actually disposing high level radioactive wastes into grounds, but in most of countries legislative preparation and practicing agents are carried out and site selection is promoted together with energetic advancement of its R and Ds. As disposal method...
TOKYO - Japan has made big strides toward stabilizing its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant but is now facing another crisis — what to do with all the radioactive waste the disaster created. Goshi Hosono, the country's nuclear crisis minister, said Friday that Japan has yet to come up with a...
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