How Japan is dumping 1m tonnes of radioactive water in the ocean | It's Complicated
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- Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, more than 1m tonnes of radioactive water has been building up at the power plant in central Japan. Soon the plant will run out of space to store the water, which is a big problem. The plan at the moment is to dump it all in the sea. So how do you go about making 1m tonnes of radioactive water, safe to drink?
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The ocean is not Japan's backyard
It's the home we share
Japanese government said that They are going to discharge these nuclear sewage today.
@@user-ht1il8ji8zYES JUST NOW
@@user-ht1il8ji8zJapan is the sinner of the world
@@user-ht1il8ji8zJapan has never been changed, evil to the end.
@@user-ht1il8ji8zIt's already started
If the water is so clean and even drinkable as Japan has claimed, then how about pouring this "clean" water to your water utility system and let your citizens drink it? BTW: Looks like most western countries are basically silent about this. If the same thing happens on China, how would Japan (and those western countries) react? Western countries accuse China of their "uncontroilled" rocket debris threating lives and damaging environment, but allow Japan to dump radioactive water to the ocean. Double standard!
japan is a vassal state of US, that why the double standard
This isn't about China at all. It's about radiation safety from a well-developed, transparent and democratic nation. These guys will announce on the national TV what they're going to do with the water. Don't think the CCP would tell you on the 7pm news what they're discharging in the ocean 😂
Fact llol western is hyporcrite they always say its is okay. Do they live in Asia nooo
This world need change
go back to elementary and learn what the water cycle is
If it is safe as Japan insist, why you want to discharge the contaminated water to ocean. Japan must keep that contaminated water in your land and use it for agricultural/industrial use. Japan must not dump the contaminated water to the ocean.
옳소!!
Precisely, why they don't drink it or for domestic use?
The proposal from other nations is to use it for construction. Japan quickly responded that the water contain radioactive substance unhealthy for human, I struggle to imagine how it's healthy for sea lifes??? All we are trying hard to do to save the ocean will be reversed by this one action 😭😭
Why don’t you drink the water😅
but South Korea President Eun's govt is ready to establish a govt body to educate the s.korean that japanese radioactive water is safe. people should not oppose it.
Because building roads and pipes and distribution systems will cost more than just dumping it into the ocean. Plus, Japanese people are already enjoying abundant clean water resources, unlike your poor country, so they feel no need to use extra water resource.
if the water is safe, why they don't use it for concrete mixing and building homes and road in the country.
Because building water pipes and distribution tanks, and other infrastructure will cost more than just dumping it into the ocean, plus, Japanese people are already enjoying abundant clean water to use, so they feel no need for extra water resources, unlike your poor country.
I don’t care! He is telling the truth!
Bcs
Desalination of seawater and then special delivery to the everywhere instead of using a nearby fresh water source. Are you crazy?
@@mydearfather5192are you crazy? Under a such strong international pressure you think it is okay? Countries are against it because of Japanese government dont allow international checking on the so called diluted water, no one will trust Japanese government except USA and its allies, scientists around the world are expressing worries! Japanese can do something else or store it on the land by building more storage tanks, any measures! None else on earth should pay for Japanese own fault together!! Japanese so-called diluted water are highly doubtable!
An intriguing piece of data:
The Japanese government allocated a PR budget of 70 billion yen for the discharge of radioactive water.
The cost of releasing radioactive water into the ocean was 3.4 billion yen, while the cost of releasing steam amounted to 34.9 billion yen.🙃
And Japan would need another PR campaign for the steam release as it "dirties the sky"
Maybe that's because of people who just don't listen and think that "nuclear = bad" all the time without doing ANY research and think that their opinion is better then thousands of expert opinions.
Where are your sources???
Why Japanese isnt using that water to agricultural, industry and drinking. If they claim it is safe, then they should drink it and utilize in agricultural purpose for 10 years then let other countries know.
Because as they said, they need to dilute it so it gets to a safe % of Tritium... can you guys even listen to all that's talked in the video?
Because of cost vs. performance problem. Do you drink the water running out from your nuclear power plant? Or thermal power plant? Or sewage treatment plant? Or any processed industrial waste water? No. Of course you "can" do so technically, but building extra water pipes and distribution systems is just costly, while you can get clean water otherwise. Well, at least in Japan, I don't know about your place but obviously there are heck a lot of countries where even the tap water aren't drinkable.
@user-jk8lj8wp4x ask the US about all it’s experiments. Right, it don’t matter anymore. Please, document yourself.
@user-jk8lj8wp4x In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.😂
@@user-mh6qm1yj9r Nonsense
Imagine China is doing what Japan gonna do, what will The US say.
Lol
那早都该跳脚了，这种双标的事情又不是一次两次了
They will block all China's economy and even fight a war
China actually has 55 nuclear plants, 3rd highest number worldwide, and each is releasing radioactive water with higher levels of tritium than what Japan is releasing for Fukushima. A quick search online will show you the answer
Edit: sorry, it is 20+ nuclear power plants, and 50+ power units as of 2022. Still, I found a report on NHK World Japan that claims China has 13 power plants in china each releasing more redioactive tritium into oceans in 2021 than the one planned to be released in Fukushima
@@TenHorizonsBut they don't release it into the ocean😢Japan just want to pass on the pollution to the whole world，so selfish ，without conscience😅
This is definitely painful to see . The ocean is not yours, we share it. The ocean is the origin of lives 💔
And nothing will happen
Japan is more precious than you~
@@LBOINGflagburn16515EZEZGGGrow up
The ocean is not yours either, we share it. That's why we're here to have a rational, scientific understanding of tritiated water, which nuclear power plants around the world release to the ocean. ❤
The fishing industry does more damage to the ocean in a day, than this nuclear sewage will do in 20 years. Shark populations are down 90% and important habitats of marine life gets devastated by trawls as I write this. Yet, there is no outrage whatsoever and people keep eating their fish without a second thought. This is very hypocritical.
If other countries like China dumps the water, would Japan agree the water is safe?
China does release the same water from their 55 nuclear reactors, so obviously the answer is yes.
They ARE duping radioactive water, about 6.5 times the amount of the Fukushima power plant.
In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.
LOL. Remember, your country's nuclear plants are dumping more than 10 times the amount of adioactive waste that Fukushima plans to emit annually. What makes it even worse is that your country discharges the radioactive water into the shallower sea, WITHOUT the approval of neighboring countries, WITHOUT on-site monitoring and inspection by a third party such as the IAEA, which ensures that the treated-water discharged from Fukushima meets international standards, while your country's nuclear power plants do not. The anti-Japanese scientific illiteracy from certain countries' avoidance and collective silence on their own country's dumping of nuclear contaminated water exposes their blatant double standards.
do some research, china has been dumping untreated radioactive waste water from 5 nuke plants into the pacific for years.
If one big fish eat 10 small fish, the big fish would have 11 fish worth of radiation.
and we will eat the big fish,so....
In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.
Some people are trying to mislead others by claiming that nuclear power plants around the world also discharge nuclear wastewater like Fukushima into the ocean.
The fact is Fukushima nuclear wastewater is fundamentally different from normal plants. Normal nuclear power plants have three separate cooling systems that do not contact each other. The third cooling system cooled by seawater does not contact reactor materials at all!
In contrast, the nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant was used to cool the melted reactor core, directly contacting the highly radioactive reactor materials. Such nuclear wastewater contains many other radioactive substances in addition to tritium.
Best explanation!
Yes, but that radioactivity is dilluted with its release, the ratios simlly are insignifigant. And most of the substances are removed.
@@Cecilia-ky3uw就问你有没有污染了环境，应不应该给全世界补偿金，毕竟原本这是日本自己的污染，可现在要牺牲整个地球环境及全人类的健康去帮它稀释。
@@Cecilia-ky3uwI will believe you if you drink it
The water was treated and the only thing "remaining" is tritium, which is why they're releasing into the sea so the tritium is diluted with normal water.
The Japanese really know how to utilize their animation talent --even in the midst of a nuclear disaster.
How
Nah. Anime is garbage. And besides, Japanese people can make cartoons without it being anime, and Americans can also make anime too.
no i do not know
@@shirleymaemattthews4862 It kind of is , but at the same time it isn't . And americans once attempted to make anime and it went horribly wrong .
No is not, it's full of pedoss material who will destroy our generation
If the treated water really is as clean as they claim even drinkable so to say, then what is the point of releasing into the ocean？ Just release it within the islands of Japan: wells, sewers, mountains, even give away to the citizens of Japan as free drinks！
that's the thing, it's only safe if diluted enough. If they only release it in Japan, it won't be diluted enough. The dose makes the venom. Even water kills if you drink enough of it.
The Fukushima water is seawater. If you dump it into the drinking water supply, you’ll contaminate it, not with radioactivity, but with salt.
Touche.
Tim Choi yes you are right ! or even better sell it exclusive to USA in bottles to drink 🤣 shiny fresh
Just think about it: those water containers have always been right near the ocean and to release the water in the ocean is super easy.
If they were to do what you said it would be a logistical mess, it would cost a ton of money and if you'd put too much water in a short amount of time you'd risk to cause floods.
The world can live without Japan, but the world cannot live without the sea
Racist
@@ZaiexO weebs huh
Japan focuses more on saving cost instead of safeguarding marine environment and protecting people’s life and health. On the disposal of nuclear-contaminated water, there are options including long-term storage, hydrogen release, geosphere injection, underground burial, and vapor release. Japan has chosen the discharge plan with minimum cost among all options, shifting the risks of nuclear contamination to the rest of the world. The act of putting money ahead of people’s life and health is doomed to be opposed by the international community.
Are you from a country far above the IAEA standards?
You gotta love capitalism 😂
@@user-mh6qm1yj9r I want to remind you two things.1. The so-called IAEA report is NOT A LICENSE to unscrupulously discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea, Japanese government neither asked locals nor other country for permission, while its behavior is threatening safety and health of the whole world. 2. IAEA rushed the release of the integrated assessment report without sufficient consultation with technical working group experts. IAEA subsequently also stated on its official website that the discharge of "treated water" (nuclear-contaminated water) stored at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was a national decision of the Japanese Government and that the report was neither a recommendation nor an endorsement of that policy.
Why don't Koreans drink the cooling water of their nuclear plants if their radioactive waste water is so clear that they could dump it into the sea?
maybe it's because Unlike the IAEA team in Fukushima, there's no international organization stationed in the Korea to make sure the Korean radioactive water they dumping into the sea meet the international standard. So we don't know what exactly happened in Korea, whether they are lying about their nuclear waste water.
your country's nuclear power plants are discharging more than 10 times the amount of radiation that Fukushima plans to emit annually.
What's even worse is that your country discharges the radioactive water into the shallower sea which is even closer, without the approval of neighboring countries, without on-site monitoring and inspection by a third party such as the IAEA, which ensures that the treated-water discharged from Fukushima meets international standards, while your country's nuclear power plants do not. The anti-Japanese scientific illiteracy from certain countries' avoidance and collective silence on their own country's dumping of nuclear contaminated water exposes their blatant double standards.
If everyone agrees that 'diluted and drained the sea' is the solution to pollution/garbage,
then Pandora's box has been opened!
What else can't be discharged into the sea?
Not even a peep or protest from Japan's allies USA Britain Australia etc etc, this must be what they call being like minded and so-called shared values at its finest. Hypocrisy..
The water leaking from the reactor should only be recycled back thru the reactor's core, treated and re-treated , not released ! There is no purpose in using fresh water for cooling the reactor when there is an adequate supply of water already contaminated that can simply be re-cycled back thru the reactor. You DON'T DUMP the radioactive water from the PRIMARY COOLING LOOP of a reactor after it has been irradiated, so why dump this water when it can be cycled time and again thru the reactor !
or used at any other plant in japan. of which there are so many. somethings not right with the journalism - the core question of why this needs to go in the ocean is not even being asked!!
the plant was retied long ago. Even if you have elementary school level reading skills, you should know that they will remove all radioisotopes except tritium before discharging and dilute the tritium with seawater, as is the international practice, until all indicators meet international discharge standards. IAEA reports have long recognized the reliability and feasibility of TEPCO's treatment program.
@@mydearfather5192 If you mean ,RETIRED , it went off line due to the quake FIRST, then from the flood waters SECOND ! Claiming, " You Should KNOW" is a fool's errand statement ! Unless YOU are there to check the radionuclide levels at every stage of supposed treatment and have the FINAL WORD on the safety of the water, then you DON'T KNOW what is REALLY going on ! The IAEA has only a LIMITED control of the operations there ! And it was TEPCO that wanted to dump the reactor core's water into the ocean in the first place and would have done so if not for the PEOPLE of JAPAN speaking out LOUDEST in the nuclear aftermath !
@@mydearfather5192your right the water which is used as coolant should return to normal seawater nuclear which know by knowledge can help the earth in the long run less heat renewable resources and is less harmful than coal oil and electric
Heard that Tokyo is lack of water, why don’t Japanese just transfer those so called purified water to Tokyo and drink it?
It's like no one in the comment section actually listened to what the video explained
I guess the real, true test is, like what one commenter in a similar video recently, is for Japan to dump it in their own back yard, a lake, and see what it does to fresh water fish and the risks of consuming those fish.
Considering it's salt water the fish will probably die.
It is saltwater. Your suggestion is ridiculous. No other company or country has ever had to do something like that. Nuclear power plants around the world routinely release water with tritium in it all the time.
@@CorralSummer Not true. The water that they've collected is runoff from the land, it is freshwater with enough radionuclides in it to be somewhat dangerous if discharged untreated. They mix it with seawater to dilute it, but it's freshwater up until that dilution step.
Many people say that ordinary people pay attention to the nuclear sewage discharge into the sea is useless, but I want to say that if you do not pay attention to this matter, there is no way to solve it, even if our power is small, we should pay attention to it, this is a major event concerning the fate and security of all mankind, even if it is to understand its harm, even if it is to silently resist it, can not ignore this matter [angry].
(Forward it, as soon as possible, as much as possible!)
Dumping nuke waste into the sea, This can be considered crime against the whole humanity and nature🤬
China always do it.
Qinshan power plant in Zhejiang Province released 218 trillion becquerels of tritium in 2021.
@@italiansuperpc Japan is dumping nuclear contaminated water. Big difference!
@@syang7775
Explain what is difference of 1 Ton of tritium mix to 1 million liters of water from Fukushima and 1 Ton of tritium from normal nuclear waste water?
Lets add that all the other isotope where removed and monitored by many outside agencies. In the case of the Chinese release are not monitored by any one outside and the data is by an agency controlled by CCCP. China as zero track record of not lie, last one is call Corona.
Ps I am against nuclear energy i am from a Country where we voted and eleminated 30 years ago.
PPS
I am not happy about this situation but it is the only logic solution. What upset me is the Chinese government scheme. China as a lot of issue now, let's distract the people with pm of favourite target.
Chinese people can be worried but need learn to research and first fix the issue china is creating in particular pollution.
This is not an excuse .Radiation is deadly it is not a game to play with .They should find another way for fuel
Wow, so dumb. Nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity we have.
@@ForbiddTV safest 😂😂😂😂 say that to chernobyl victims and dead workers
radietion i dedly
you are scientific illiterate
Even the designer of the nuclear plant said people should stop what Japan is trying to do now... He recommended to build a big tank to restore the water for 30 years. And then they need to release after 30 years.
@@cookiemonxchu the builder of the plant as zero authority against the approval of the iaea
That's insane. Don't dump this terrible contaminated water into our ocean. The ocean is for the next generation!!!!
@@johanqian1858 they don't care! and if you show your concern, they will drag the other countries into this ,and say all others are doing the same thing. and claim their nuclear waste is safe and cldean. I wonder what japanese fishermen think about it.
As well as for us..
You know USA once nuked the pacific ocean right ?
Every nation which has nuclear power plants dump the water😅
@@adelalmohtaseb5261nuclear bomb and radioactive nuclear reactor is different….
If it's so safe, people who supports this idea should use it as their drinking water.
You missed the point of what "safe" means. It's safe to be diluted into the oceans, not to straight up drink shots of it. It's like you didn't watch the video 🤦
@@loco_tom The Japanese government will do anything as long as Japan is safe. Japanese people are very selfish.
You know USA once nuked the pacific ocean right ?
its called an obama sip
希釈って知ってる？😂
Regarding Japanese seafood, Japanese cosmetics, and Japanese snacks and drinks will not be purchased again, it's not just the fear of radiation. It is also a silent rebellion. Japan should not be destroying nature and harming the health of people in other countries. 💔
Japan is more precious than you~
They're not.
Or at least, not with this water.
Unfortunately since Fukushima Japan has relied more on fossil fuels and that's harming people, but hardly unique to Japan.
I see. Well, you drink a lot of nuclear waste water. Come on.@@LBOINGflagburn16515EZEZGG
You think governments don’t harm the health of their people in purpose alreAdy?
The world can live without Japan, but it cannot live without oceans!
Remember Japan takes order from USA....
Japanese citizens, especially fishermen in Fukushima, are also largely against the decision.
If we do not update the world’s politics to reduce capitalism influence, the governments will never really serve people, especially not in Japan or USA.
Every American should remember of the 1100+ US nuclear tests ( many undertaken in the Pacific), were the equivalent to detonating the Horoshima bomb twice a day for months.
The US reactors sold to Japan were also not fit for purpose, only having limited in vessel containment & basically surrounded by a warehouse with extra concrete under the reactor.
Evidence for the reactors?
@@IkeOkerekeNews Google is your friend.....
@@dandare2586
You made the claim, you provide the evidence.
@@user-if1de8pt2j It was a culmination of events & design errors, like keeping the radioactive fuel above the reactors. Which has highly complicated the clean up effort.
Siemans told the japanese government multiple times that the reactors wouldn't be safe and they were told to continue. Get your facts straight before you spout nonsense.
Recording to Japan's attitude towards World War II history, we can tell the result of allowing Japan to discharge nuclear wastewater be like:
2 years later: it has already been arranged. I'm really sorry😩
20 years later: The mistake made by former people has nothing to do with us now. We are also victims😢;
50 years later: Discharging radioactive wastewater? There is no such thing in history!😒
War crimes and crimes against humanity, that is Japan’s legacy
And to cover up, Japanese government is spending 700 bn yuan on bots and global media.
The scientist in the video didn't explain the differences between radioactive exposure from a short-lived form like an X-ray and from consuming contaminated water or food. That latter is having a longer-lasting impact.
Japan : lets share the love and spread it world wide!!
Stop buying anything from Japan
It may seem a small amout but what about the cumulative effect of other plants releasing just a little bit. Plus all the other toxins dumped. How can an ocean cope with.
It can’t … bioavailability of radioactive molecules in seafood. I only eat seafood like a couple times a year now mostly when forced by social situations. They’re trying to play down the effect of the meltdown and calm people down. Same as the 1.5 million gallons of radioactive water in the US. Fukushima is on a whole other scale though
If it is so safe, Japanese people should use it as drinking water.
All water flows back to the sea....
The PM of Japan should drink it to proof its safe as said.
When Singapore introduced NEWater a product of treat sewage water as potable water the Prime Minister drank it to show it safe as claimed.
Because as they said, they need to dilute it so it gets to a safe % of Tritium... can you guys even listen to all that's talked in the video?
@@vlad-marincalota6819 They just here for the Video titles, their IQ is so low that they doesnt understand if the real problem about this issue is in fact about Trust, and not about Health Risk
希釈って知ってる？😂
...so we're supposed to trust the same plant owners who literally said that radiation levels were low because they had used measuring devices that topped out at a far lower level than the actual radiation levels? The guys who were told early on of the risk of tsunami in causing this very problem, but went ahead anyway? The guys who supposedly can be bothered to filter out radioactive elements, but allowed radioactive water to seep into the ground water table for years? The guys who proposed freezing an underground water shield which i knew would never work and which never worked?? Now they're LITERALLY admitting they cant do anything else other than dump all the radioactive water into the ocean because they have no ideas left?
no you're supposed to trust the experts, not your gut feeling
The whole process will not only be overseen by Japan’s new Nuclear Regulatory Agency, but also by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is an independent UN body. So if you don’t trust the Japanese government you can go by the UN data. You’re also misinformed on what’s happening at the plant. The ice wall was actually very successful. It has cut the amount of contaminated water that has to be pumped out from the reactors by 75%, from 400 tons a day to around 100 tons a day. No one ever expected it to reduce that number to zero. And if it weren’t for the ice wall, they would have run out of space to store the water years ago and the releases would have already started.
I think there are much more urgent nuclear waste problems at nuke-test sites, high-level radioactive materials ('plutonium' chunks) leaching out into the Ocean? Have they compared the amount of tritium release from other nations around the globe and high-level radioactive materials seeping out of nuclear bomb test sites?
Other countries such as France, UK, Canada, S. Korea, etc, release far higher concentration of tritium each year into the ocean and the air for decades from their nuclear power plants, For example, Seoul, South Korea, has several times higher environmental radiation reading than that of Tokyo. China's claims are also (knowingly/intentionally) false. China's notorious for being a major polluter of water, soil and air, censoring all scientific reports that sound negative. IAEA has approved the release of the Fukushima water. What S. Korean and Chinese are claiming make no sense. It is apparent from this that they have been knowingly making false claims solely to bash Japanese.
Japan has a population of more than 100 million. If the nuclear water is harmless, then the Japanese can drink all the nuclear water in ten days. So why does the Japanese government not let the Japanese drink nuclear water?😅
他们甚至不邀请其他国家的科学家在释放水样时采集水样。
Then, do you drink water nearby, or drink water in a distant place? Do you know which one is better?
Because it's salt water. It should be desalinated, after that it probably would be drinkable.
It’s probably a issue with concentration. This radiation is fine spread out in the ocean as the volume of water makes it irrelevant once it’s out. Overhyped issue.
Let the PM of Japan drink first
dump their own land or lake
You know, considering that people are also afraid of medical scans; perhaps it would have been better to say that one micro Sievert is equivalent to the radiation dose from eating 10 bananas.
I think there are much more urgent nuclear waste problems at nuke-test sites, high-level radioactive materials ('plutonium' chunks) leaching out into the Ocean? Have they compared the amount of tritium release from other nations around the globe and high-level radioactive materials seeping out of nuclear bomb test sites?
Other countries such as France, UK, Canada, S. Korea, etc, release far higher concentration of tritium each year into the ocean and the air for decades from their nuclear power plants, For example, Seoul, South Korea, has several times higher environmental radiation reading than that of Tokyo. China's claims are also (knowingly/intentionally) false. China's notorious for being a major polluter of water, soil and air, censoring all scientific reports that sound negative. IAEA has approved the release of the Fukushima water. What S. Korean and Chinese are claiming make no sense. It is apparent from this that they have been knowingly making false claims solely to bash Japanese.
Most people can't eat ten bananas in one sitting.
@@arnowisp6244 But you can easily eat ten bananas within one year.
2:12: "The dose to the consumers who are at most at risk, would be about 1 microSievert per year."
That "banana radiation" thing is the most ignorant view on radiation.
Ask Litvinenko.
The data for radioactivity of these waste waster are released by TEPCO.
Here we go. The declaration of war from Japan to South Korea.
Thank you Japan. Looking forward to the cancer cases growing all over the world. Radioactive fishes on the shelf for everyone to taste.
You obviously have no idea what is tritium and what it decays into.
@tomajination please explain
@tomajination all I know is it doesn't belong in our planets oceans our worlds already extremely suffering
@@tumeke4328 Tritium occurs naturally, you're already exposed to it even if you lived before the industrial revolution. What do you mean it doesn't belong in oceans? You also know bananas are radioactive, right?
People need to study nuclear science.
You know USA once nuked the pacific ocean right ?
Why don't they keep reusing the same, contaminated water (after filtering it), instead of creating more and more?
They actually do reuse the cooling water. The surplus water comes from ground and rainwater infiltrating into the damaged buildings and mixing with the contaminated cooling water. So everyday they pump about 50 tons of cooling water into the reactors but they have to remove about 100-150 tons per day.
Might become too concentrated and cause an uncontrolled nuclear reaction;( not for sure but just a thought.
I think there are much more urgent nuclear waste problems at nuke-test sites, high-level radioactive materials ('plutonium' chunks) leaching out into the Ocean? Have they compared the amount of tritium release from other nations around the globe and high-level radioactive materials seeping out of nuclear bomb test sites?
Other countries such as France, UK, Canada, S. Korea, etc, release far higher concentration of tritium each year into the ocean and the air for decades from their nuclear power plants, For example, Seoul, South Korea, has several times higher environmental radiation reading than that of Tokyo. China's claims are also (knowingly/intentionally) false. China's notorious for being a major polluter of water, soil and air, censoring all scientific reports that sound negative. IAEA has approved the release of the Fukushima water. What S. Korean and Chinese are claiming make no sense. It is apparent from this that they have been knowingly making false claims solely to bash Japanese.
Because if you expose it 100 times it will get more and more contaminated. Now it's so little contamimated that there is no problem, but if it were more contaminated it would be problematic. Also: when you filter something it's not like radiation disappears. You just move what you've filtered in the filter. It you filter once it's ok, the filter will be a little little radioactive and there would be no problem. But if you had to filter the water 100 times it would get really radioactive and it would be a problem again.
Also: it's a ton of water. It would be a mess to filter it every time and it would be cost a lot
@@stefamart7 Actually, the water released is filtered through something called ALPS. Tritium is just really hard to seperate with current tech.
If the water isn't bad, just use water from Japan itself. Use it for drinking water, industrial water, and agricultural water.
bro doesnt know what the water cycle is
@@jasonswack3583 if you say we don't know, then why not let it cycle in your own country???
Strongly agree!!!!! And they start releasing radioactive water to the ocean right now and gonna be continued for next 30 more years
Because it is salt water from the ocean. When they say it's safe for drinking, they are referring to the radioactivity of the water. The water itself is still salty, and it not stored or transported in containers that are safe for holding regular drinking water.
Multiple agencies that have actual credentials have approved this plan. Who are you to say otherwise? And why would someone claiming something is safe mean they have to use it themselves?
Nuclear power plants around the world regularly release water with tritium in it. Please stop the fear-mongering.
I'm mean I'm not supposed Japan but who you supposed was waste 65 times more cause sea pollination
Do you still think Japan is an ally, democratic, polite, clean and friendly country
The ocean is not Japan's trash can!
If Japan's think the nuclear contaminated water so safe for dumped into the sea, why not dumping into their own landscape instead.😢
希釈って知ってる？
I really like this video and the interviews. It is a issue of balancing dangers, and I think that starting release now and doing it super slowly to allow dilution to be effective is very important. Remember that if a disaster happens and all the water is released at once that would be SIGNIFICANTLY worse than a slow release over years
Since the nuclear sewage is so clean, the Japanese natives drank it, so why discharge it?
The Japanese official Weibo accounct posted a blog announcing that the treated nuclear waste water has minor effect to human body: 1/70K ~ 1/1M higher than a person annually have.
So, if the treatment is truely this effective, then why not pouring it to the Japan water cycling system? And why the politicians refuse to drink it?
JAPAN has been great at telling all sorts of lies.
They say it’s safe to to release the water, why don’t they just consume it instead of releasing in the water into the ocean affecting everyone in the world? It’s their own fault that this is happening why should everyone else take responsibility for their own mistakes?
All nuclear power plants release the same tritiated water and no one in world history has ever been harmed by this practice.
That‘s the point,if it doesn't matter,why don't they consume it in Japan,not the ocean!
@@howardnie2923 Why doesn't your country do the same?
It's there own fault that a tsunami happened? How?
This is the first time in the world that nuclear fuel rods are melting down and fuel debris is directly cooled with water, but the dangers of debris are not mentioned at all.
If the contaminated water from a nuclear power plant is so purified and safe, it would be a waste to just throw it away at sea, so it would be better to make bottled water and distribute it as compensation to the Japanese people who paid the cost of purification in taxes.
Even though it meets the standards and is clean, there are more than a few people who feel reluctance to drink it.
52 trillion bq released from Chinese nuclear plant in one year while Fukushima will release 25 trillion in next 10 years.
@@hitagiclub The tritium in the water is a lower levels then seawater.
@@jaredgarbo3679 then you drink it buddy
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Love it how they don't talk about the millions of gallons of untreated water that has been continuously seeping into the ocean from under the damaged and flooded reactor cores. This is just a red herring.
。。。也就是说他们早在排放了，甚至是根本没有经过处理的核废水！
I work with some of the highest activity tritium in the world. It's about 20-30 curies per kg. I'd love to know the activity of the water in those tanks???
you are not qualified enough
@White wolf what qualifications do you have?
The danger isn't with tritium. The waste water has radioactive metal in it. It will be concentrated by the ecosystem. All of these videos on Tritium are just diversion tactics.
@@liangjiang3122 do you know how much tritium the sea water has? A lot.....
@@whitewolf2767 who r u then?
IAEA report: "Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of information contained in this report, neither the IAEA nor its Member States assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from its use." basically stating it's none of their biz if things go south
Excellent disclaimer 😂
Don't South Korea and China issue an evacuation order for
dozens of people living in Japan?
It doesn't make sense if you don't.
"Also, South Korea and China must urgently ban travel to Japan."
Governments around the world should tell their citizens to withdraw from Japan early and ban travel indefinitely, if in danger.
Originally, Japanese people don't want to associate with foreigners.
Everybody gangsta with radiation until Godzilla rises from Ocean.
😂
Also, how can they just dump their radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean?!?!????! Who is allowing this to happen? I'm livid!
Because it is under drinking water regulations in rafioaktivity. Its not dangerous
@@quieselwusul3717 then consume it locally
US: we found cure for cancer!
Japan: nice, we are safe to release nuclear water now.
If the water is fine, why don't Japanese government reuse those water to the city water system why have to dump it in to the ocean? Japanese has less water. What a waste yea?
If treated sewage is safe why don't you drink it?
@@AlCatSplat that why I'm say let Japanese people reuse those waste water instead of dumping into the ocean
@@hoiweng.cheong Loading the water on trucks and delivering it to the municipal water supply would do more damage to the environment than simply dumping it into the ocean.
@@hoiweng.cheong差別主義者やん
Please save our sea...
NO!
& us .... rain 🌧 ❄️ will fall off . Forget fish 🐟 especially Tuna & large fish. Wait ✋️ don't wonder if there is a big mess after in California/?British Columbia Canada
You save our sea you hypocrite 🌊
It's not going anywhere lol.
It’s known that the uranium rods are out of control and the melting core of the reactor gets down digging to the ground. The wastewater comes from the action of cooling the rods with massive radioactive things. The core of the reactor even emits radiation up to the point that a digital camera is broken down and uncontrollable.
It is truly doubtful how can they filter a lot of radioactive elements from the seriously contaminated wastewater. If there is a person who knows the mechanism of action of ALPS, let me know. Every source says it is safe, but nobody knows how it is working exactly.
Aside from the scientific background, if it is genuinely edible, why do they waste the water? They can drink, use for the factory, and it can be useable for rice farming which demands colossal amounts of water. Isn't water essential for the rice which is the staple of Japanese? Money for logistics of the water? Aren't they the 3rd richest country on earth?
We know 迷惑 is the virtue of the modern Japanese. 迷惑 is only for the Japanese? Does it exclude the neighbouring countries?
And what about the marine environment? Do you think it is okay for the creatures of the Pacific?
Show trust! If it is drinkable, you drink it all!
@@user-jk8lj8wp4x天安門
Why don't Koreans drink the cooling water of their nuclear plants if their radioactive waste water is so clear that they could dump it into the sea?
Unlike the IAEA team in Fukushima, no international group is stationed in the Korea to make sure the Korean radioactive water they dumping into the sea meet the international standard. So we don't know what exactly happened in Korea, whether they are lying about their nuclear waste water.
Your toilet water is not radioactive, and it's fresh water not seawater, so why don't you just pick it up and drink it. Take the product from the sewage treatment plant and make it into bottled drinking water, will you? Never discharge it into the rivers and oceans, bsc you're polluting the world!
Remember, your country's nuclear plants are dumping more than 10 times the amount of adioactive waste that Fukushima plans to emit annually.
What makes it even worse is that your country discharges the radioactive water into the shallower sea, WITHOUT the approval of neighboring countries, WITHOUT on-site monitoring and inspection by a third party such as the IAEA, which ensures that the treated-water discharged from Fukushima meets international standards, while your country's nuclear power plants do not. The anti-Japanese scientific illiteracy from certain countries' avoidance and collective silence on their own country's dumping of nuclear contaminated water exposes their blatant double standards.
@@user-mh6qm1yj9r 这个和日本排放核废料有什么关系，现在有问题就说现在，这种时候还说天安门明显就是你在没事找事，天安门除了中国其他历史书里都写着
The "expert" did not discuss the multiplication factor up the food chain which was not studied at all. Tritium get incorporated into the organic of algaes. These algaes get ineaten by small fish or crustaceans etc which are eaten by bigger fish etc. As it goes up the food chain the radioactivity multiplies. This effect, whether happened or not, can only be known in a few to ten years of study. cannonly be known
3:51 then freakin drink it Mr. Prime Minister of Japan...
No more sushi
We may have a new 2+1 sushi combo. Two headed fish with one tail
La Hage and Sellafield had a pipe into the ocean and both emit more tritium as the water from fukushima.
All nuclear power plants on the planet release the same tritiated water.
That suppose to be comforting to someone?
A bit ironic that they're raking TEPCO over the coals for Tritium discharge, but the Framatome plant in La Hague, France gets a pass despite doing the exact same thing on a larger scale for decades now.
It’s funny how little coverage is in the western media.
If they say it’s so safe then why don’t they just keep it and not release it into the ocean and plus they never asked anyone for their opinion they just announced that they were doing it no matter what
Japan can do whatever it wants.😜😜
It's a simple story. Because there is not enough storage tank. If you save at this pace, it will be full next year.
They did ask others for their opinions, including the IAEA. Even Korea reviewed their plan and said that it is acceptable. Just because you have difficulty reading and listening doesn't mean that what you claimed is true.
It is safe, but it is not used in Japan. It's safe, but I'll throw it straight into the sea
If treated sewage is safe why don't you drink it?
Japan and nuclear just do not go well together.
Keep it to yourself if it safe..use it for bath or cooking
if the nuclear waste water has no harm, why dont dump it to the Japan’s river or lake ?
Because it is a long distance from any river or lake. All nuclear power plants on the planet release the same tritiated water, and some do release it into a river or lake.
The plants are already by the sea. Why pump water inland just to flow back into the sea again?
もう少しおべんきょう頑張れ
Because it is salt water from the ocean. Please use your brain.
你们现在才知道为什么日本的邻居都讨厌日本人了吧😅
In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.😂
天安門
Tritium have the half life of 12 years then keep it in the tank, for 12 years when it decays.
"Biomagnification" refers to the process in which toxic or persistent chemicals gradually accumulate within the bodies of organisms in a food chain. These substances are often introduced into the environment from pollution sources, and as lower-level organisms are consumed by higher-level carnivores, the concentration of toxic substances increases. Despite tritium levels potentially meeting international standards in Japan's nuclear wastewater, there remains a potential risk of biomagnification, where toxic substances accumulate in higher-level organisms, potentially exceeding initial environmental concentrations and affecting humans, particularly at the top of the food chain.
but why are they accumulating all that water in the first place? can'T they just continue to use it?
If I had to guess if they could continue using the water it's going to just keep getting more contaminated and more dangerous and it hit a point where it'll be too radioactive and unusable into contaminated and dangerous to dump in the ocean or anywhere else so it's best to dump it or figure out something to do with it now since the radiation is still low enough to where they can make it way less harmful to people
Luckily nuclear power is proclaimed as a green source of energy, so no worries.
And don't smoke, that causes cancer.
1. 为什么没地方存储了才排放？
2. 如果无害，为什么不直接通过城市下水道过滤后给自己国民使用？
建议他们自己喝，你看楼上一个鬼子还在说什么别的国家自来水不能喝什么的😅
希釈って知ってる？Chinese
@@user-mh6qm1yj9r bro so you think the ocean only owned by Japan? using the whole world's resources(ocean) to dilute the water from Japan, isnt it too selfish and inconsiderate?
Why don't the Japanese drink nuclear wastewater？😅
There is a very simple argument: Now all the plans and forecasts were all based on that Tokyo Electric can work well. But even if they wish to work well, nobody can ensure such a complex dumping in an totally uncontrolled manner. If they can control, there is no need for the dumping, let alone the damaging reactors should be still leaking.
If its really that safe they should drink by themselves
Do you drink sea water
希釈って知ってる？
Next thing you know Godzilla will appear
There’s no precedent. It’s ridiculous to claim it’s “safe”. Especially when they even acknowledged it themselves that tritium can’t be treated. If it’s so safe, they would’ve already used it on their own lands, for drinking or farming. They just want to spend the least money possible. Disregarding the risk and long term negative impacts. 😢
First, let's learn the correct knowledge of chemistry.
Tritium is water. Japan then dilutes the tritium with seawater until the tritium emissions are lower than the tritium emissions of any other nuclear power plant.
@@YA-fi3ng Nonsense! There are at least 60 untreated chemicals in the nuclear contaminated water. Even Tepco has admitted that.
For anyone thinking this dumping of nuclear waste water into the ocean is safe do a test. Get a cargo ship to carry it to the US and try dumping it there, if it's safe as Japan says US should be fine with it being dumped on the shoreline of CA. Ahahhahaa
How we can resolve the problem of the radioactive water?
Japan: *_yes._*
Why do you think there is a 'problem'?
@@ForbiddTV
Don't worry, there's no problem. It's healthy water, without any problem for health. You can also drink it.
@@KasusEpykMusykII We all drink it. All nuclear power plants on the planet release the same tritiated water, and nature has produced it since the beginning of time.
@@ForbiddTV
Well, it's a pleasure for the other people but not for me, as I don't drink it.
Cheers.
@@KasusEpykMusykII That's interesting, what planet are you from?
Im not saying it happens but i imagine everywhere with nuclear stuff discretely dumps nuclear waste all the time doubt it just disapears or is stored safely
Actually, they do that all the time.
And no one can determine what causes the number of cancers to rise.
Before dumping, they did a test against 2 fish caught on 30 miles away
The United States-based National Association of Marine Laboratories-an organization with more than a hundred member labs in the U.S. or U.S. territories-released a statement opposing the wastewater release plan. It cited “a lack of adequate and accurate scientific data supporting Japan’s assertion of safety.” The discharges, the statement said, may threaten the “largest continuous body of water on the planet, containing the greatest biomass of organisms … including 70 percent of the world’s fisheries.”
Please distribute the water to all major oceans like Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Antarctica, etc to ensure equitable distribution.
@@user-yf1pd4gc7k it will actually circle back to hit indonesia, philiphines, taiwan and china first
so that nobody can ever eat any type of ocean product, that equality!
Water evaporate then falls as rain, man, IT WILL GET ON OUR SKIN
@@nemolai7989classic, Japan never drop its ambitions after WW2.
If you bear the cost, I agree.
why no mention about the huge amount of caesium in the Japanese nuclear water that can not be removed by their water treatment methods
In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.
Aren't you even capable of doing some elementary school level reading?
@@mydearfather5192why don't you demonstrate it first cuz ur clearly lacking in this field😊
The cesium is removed by the water treatment methods.
@@derpymcderpello5381No, it is not.
Remember that it is nuclear polluted water, not nuclear waste water. Nuclear polluted water is more serious.
Why Western environmentalists won't stand out for againsting Japan at this time？Why？Why？ And where they are now？
Irresponsible, reckless, careless act from Japan.
You are joking me right?
Chinese Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant releases 52trillion bq in a year, while Fukushima nuclear plant will release 22 trillion Bq in next 10years based on IAEA direction and check.
Now who is irresponsible, reckless and careless.
@@Wing77777 Chinese Fuquing Nuclear plant release 52 trillion in a year
Fukushima nuclear plant will release 22 trillion in next 10 years.
China can’t do the math 😂
Just like nearly every things they've done that clearly disregards their neighboring countries
@@threezero4491 you are really uneducated, maybe do some research before some dumb comments lol😂
Isn't the royal family politicians? Is your head okay? The Japanese royal family is the oldest existing dynasty in the world.
a group of extremely irresponsible governments
In fact, the radiation concentration in China is higher than the treated water from Fukushima.
They're lying about the dilution process how effective it is. It's a great story, and nobody questions it .
If it's safe, use it in Japan!