SINGAPORE: More than a decade after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Japan is set to release over a million tonnes of treated wastewater from its destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday (Jul 4) delivered a final review of Japan’s plan and gave its approval after a two-year evaluation....
Japan has not yet specified a date to start the release of the water - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
However, its plan to dump the treated radioactive water into the ocean has faced fierce resistance from neighbouring countries like China and South Korea, and even Japanese residents....
According to various media outlets, Japanese officials noted that the wastewater must be removed to avoid accidental leaks in the event of another earthquake as well as to create space for the decommissioning of the plant. ...
According to the IAEA, the tainted water has been recycled through the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), a pumping and filtration system which uses “a series of chemical reactions to remove 62 radionuclides from contaminated water”.
While most of the radioactive elements have been filtered out, it still contains tritium, an isotope that is difficult to separate from water due to it being chemically similar to hydrogen.
Tritium may “present a radiation hazard if inhaled or ingested but is only harmful to humans in very large doses”, according to IAEA. CNA
The Americans and the western world, and their cronies, all seems to be quite comfortable with the release of the contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean as if it is safe or would not affect them. There is not a whimper of protest or dissatisfaction that Japan is treating the Pacific Ocean as their nuclear waste dumping ground. The Pacific Islanders too are very quiet. So are Australia and New Zealand, too far away or afraid to say anything because Japan is their ally?
This is perhaps the first time in history when the whole world knows about this in advance and has a chance to stop it but chose not to do anything, willing to suffer the consequences for the whole of humankind. The Americans and the French had done a lot of very harmful nuclear testings in the southern Pacific Ocean before, at a time when they were the dominant powers and no one could stop them, and at a time when they could do it without letting the world knows about the tests and radioactive hazard. The Americans even deliberately let the islanders of Marshall Islands to be the human guinea pigs to see how the radiation would affect human beans. The islanders are not qualified to deserve human rights protection. Of course the Marshall Islanders could not protest, unable to protest, too ignorant to protest. The rest of the world did not know what were happening until several decades had passed.
Assuming that the notorious Japanese and IAEA were telling the truth, that the contaminated water was harmless or would not cause severe harm to humans or marine life, would it be a better option to learn from Singapore's experience on how to treat filtered sewer water? Singapore has a big project in treating shit water from the toilets, filtered and cleansed them and scientifically certified the water as clean and safe for drinking. Still, Singapore did not expect its citizens to drink the water directly, though supposedly clean and safe. What Singapore did was to channel the treated shit water to the reservoirs to be cleansed by nature a second time before being reprocessed as potable water coming out of the tap.
If the Japanese really think the treated contaminated water is safe, why don't they do the same as Singapore, discharge the water into their reservoirs for cleansing in the natural way and process them for consumption?
The advantages of this process would give the water a second round of test. The flora and life forms in the reservoirs would be the first guinea pigs, the first line of defence. If the flora, fishes and aquatic life forms in the reservoirs survived the ordeal, at least it would make it a bit less risky for the human beans. And if the Japanese could drink the water coming out of their taps, and still have no adverse effects, it would be nice and good for the conscience, and a very responsible thing to do. As many have said, if the contaminated water is safe, the Japanese should be the first to drink it to prove it. It is only honourable and ethical for the Japanese to do so. It is another thing to dump the contaminated water into the ocean just by claiming that it is safe when the Japanese are afraid to consume it.
What do you think?
PS. People of the world must ban all Japanese produce if Japan goes ahead with poisoning the Pacific Ocean
Below is a comment in CGTN on the contaminated water issue.
8 comments:
Why not dump into the lake in jap&americun. Then observe what happen after a year. The other day ST had a big headline that read China oppose jap dumping of water into sea..it gave the impression that only china is against it & china is the trouble maker..Sad that we peasants are funding such newsmedia.
Seems like ST, Today & CNA are all singing in harmony with CNN & BBC. Yet the echo chamber claims to be the channel with "an Asian perspective"
South Koreans are up in protest over the impending dumping of Fukushima tainted waste water into the Ocean just outside their doorstep.
Japan is against South Korea conducting a military exercise to defend a cluster of islands claimed by both countries. Now, that is interesting that they are now fighting against one another over a cluster of islands too.
Go, South Korea, go. Who will the Evil Snake support this time?
Claiming that the Fukushima nuclear tainted water is even safe for drinking after treatment and not disposing it into Japanese Reservoirs is a clear and blatant lie being exposed. Nothing more, nothing less.
If the water is safe even for drinking, why need to release periodically for several years. All dump the water into the sea at one times. Also can export the water in bottles to those countries that agreed. Those countries that not agree would not mind helping to sponsors the packaging cost.
Aiyoo tell the Japs to transport all their Necular Waste Water to the Coasts of the UAss and all of Europe and dumped them there.
See whether they apu nai opps sorry appaulse or protest.
Cheers
IAEA, by agreeing to the lies of the Japanese, is also lying to the rest of the world. Its credibility is gone for good and should be disbanded.
What is the purpose of its existence if not to protect the world from irresponsible nuclear catastrophe. Look at that sheepish IAEA character walking to meet the South Korean Government leaders, and getting flak over the visit by South Korean citizens.
South Korea will have another bone to pick with Japan, besides the disputed islands and comfort women issue. South Korea literally has lesser issues with North Korea, if the South do not continue with provocations instigated by the USA.
The harm, humiliation, massacre of Koreans during the Japanese colonial invasion would never be forgotten by the Koreans. But the South Korean governments are sleeping and conniving with the Japanese, their colonial masters and butchers of Koreans, to plot against the Koreans.
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