Need for independent testing as absurd to just rely on Japan’s TEPCO's water testing
Just
as Japan has dumped more than 4,200 tons of nuclear-contaminated
wastewater into the Pacific as of Monday, an Australian public health
and infectious diseases physician said that Japan's previous water
testing was incomplete and unrepresentative. He called for an
independent third party testing which covers the full array of isotopes
present in Fukushima's nuclear-contaminated wastewater.
The
testing protocol and laboratory measurement should be performed by a
laboratory independent of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) with
periodic comparisons with the results from different laboratories, said
Tilman Ruff, an associate professor in the University of Melbourne's
Nossal Institute for Global Health.
"Previous water testing by
TEPCO has been incomplete, unrepresentative and produced unexpected
results which TEPCO has not explained, for example the presence of very
short-lived tellurium-127, indicating either laboratory error or a
nuclear chain reaction in the melted fuel, which would be a very
important finding," said Ruff.
As a co-founder and Australian
chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel
Peace Laureate 2017), Ruff said that testing should address the full
array of isotopes present in Japan's nuclear-contaminated water prior to
dilution and discharge, because it is the total amount of radionuclides
released that are of ecological and health importance, more so than the
concentration.
According to Yonhap News, a French journalist,
who was invited by TEPCO with other foreign media to visit the discharge
facility on Saturday, was immediately turned down by TEPCO after
suggesting that a third party such as an environmental group or expert
should participate in the measurement or monitoring of radiation in
order to increase credibility.
Ruff said most Pacific Island
countries have been vocally opposed to the radioactive wastewater
discharge and no less than six UN human rights Special Rapporteurs
covering toxics, food, health, environment and water have raised strong
concerns about the matter.
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2 comments:
In 3 months times, the nuke water would travel in a clockwise direction northward, reaching Alaska. Then go Southward to Canada, West Coast of USA reaching the Equator. Then travelled west to Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand , Vietnam, China
Taiwan and back to Japan. It can be said that USA got the poison.water first and China got it last. China is doing Americans a favour to help USA from being poisoned. Funny Americans don't care about their peoples like the recent land fire disaster in Hawaii. Pity Hawaii, got burn already and expected to be poisoned by Japan nuked water. Hawaii had forgotten about the destruction of Pearl Harbour by Japan. The release of nuke water maybe a subtle cabal plot to revenge the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Seppuku was ingrained in Japanese culture. It became justible to commit serious crimes on humanities and commit suicide.
One thing is very clear. Asean has kept its mouth sealed completely, not a single sound heard on this contaminated nuclear waste water. Maybe Asean thinks the water is safe. Or maybe Asean thinks the water would not come down to SE Asia. Or maybe someone is coercing Asean to shut up and live with it.
What do you think? Get ready for some Asean countries to offer to buy more Japanese food products to feed their citizens. Paying good money to buy nuclear contaminated food for their people. And their fishermen are going to fish from the same water contaminated by the Japanese.
Is this some kind of stupidity has no cure?
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