Japan will release treated radioactive water - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools - into the ocean over several decades.
will further strain the world’s oceans, which are already absorbing the brunt of climate change and pollution, said experts.
“We have an ocean that's already stressed and the people who depend on the ocean are already feeling the effects. And now we're adding a new layer of stressors.”whether the release of treated water from the Fukushima plant into the sea would be safeA worker walks past tanks with Advanced Liquid Processing System treated water, at the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on Mar 8, 2023.
The wastewater has been filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate from water. “You then have to ask the question of what happens to the water after it's released, and this is to do with whether or not there are any biological processes to accumulate the radioactive materials,” he added.
“It is already at a very, very low rate. And once it's released, it will be diluted very, very considerably indeed,” he added. “So it would be very difficult actually even to detect it.”
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