Fukushima’s Nuclear Wastewaters Have Been Released. Now What? | Insight | Full Episode
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- Japan has completed phase one of wastewater release from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster. Despite assurances from the government and IAEA representatives that the water’s radioactive particles, specifically Tritium, are not harmful, many in Japan and the region are not appeased.
Insight’s Genevieve Woo travels across Fukushima to find out what has happened since the release. She finds fishermen off the coast of Japan who are worried about their livelihoods. Meanwhile, China and Hong Kong seafood curbs continue. What repercussions will the wastewater have on Japan and its neighbours? What has happened one month after the water release? And does the data support further release of waters?
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Activists protest discharge of radioactive water
05:34 Treating radioactive wastewater before release
08:07 Fukushima's fishermen unhappy
13:00 Impact on Fukushima's tourism industry
17:59 People living near the plant react to the release
23:42 How much radiation is there really?
28:18 Distrust towards TEPCO and the Japanese government
35:08 China's import ban on Japanese seafood
37:13 Does the rest of Japan have fears about the wastewater release?
42:41 Japan's future nuclear power plans
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If the water is safe, Japan government should have used the water for irrigation and agricultural purposes.
Then your country should also use the tritiated water you produce for agriculture and irrigation. At least yours doesn't have sea water in it.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk keep barking, Japan lapdog
You don't use seawater for crops you dim bulb.
Who told you farmers can use seawater in farming?
Corruption destroys EVERYTHING! 😢
If the contaminated water is so safe, why don't Japan use the water for their farmlands. Go figure.
The contaminated water after treatment from ALPS to remove Caesium and Strontium is left with Tritium. It is released 1km offshore into the ocean for further dilution. Water testing so far has shown the radiation levels detected from the release are safe.
They can't just use the water directly for their farmlands without massive amounts of water for dilution.
Why don't you use the tritiated water your country releases to irrigate your farmland? At lease yours doesn't have sea water in it.
@@jethrolee107 So you are saying that the water released itself can be harmful until the dilution, right? Then what about the ocean's creatures that just happened to be around the outlets 1 km away from the shore? They were directly exposed to the contaminated water before the dilution. And the biological concentration will cause the accumulation of the element and lead to unexpected implications.
@@jessicanobody8497 Timestamp 27:50 shows seawater radiation levels when tested are safe. Also, somewhere in the video, it shows the release site as near or at the intersection of 2 currents so flow rate that affects dilution rate would be high. If a creature were to stick their mouth/nose at the discharge pipe and inhale during the discharge, yeah I would think it is harmful to the creature.
Everything comes down to a cost/benefit analysis. They figured that this is the best option for them. They were running out of storage space for untreated water, they needed land space to build a new building for the decommissioning of the plant, moving the untreated water is a risk in itself, Japan is prone to seismic events, who knows when the next major earthquake will happen, if it happens and the tanks that are holding the untreated water ruptures, they will have a bigger ecological disaster.........etc. I'm sure all these were taken into account when the decision was made.
@@jethrolee107
Why is Japan afraid to use the "safe" water to wash the streets in Japan then?
Latest update : As at 27/10/23, the 2 staffs with high radioactive readings on their naked bodies due to direct exposure to the waste water, even though they were wearing full protective clothing were still "hospitalise". TEPCO remained quiet about the follow-up investigations of the accident. Another cover up ?
Yet you believe that which is not true. Such water even if your meme was true was before treatment.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk To you, the lives of 2 unfortunate persons were just a meme ( sigh ). At least the "incident" was serious enough for the Taiwan international news media to discuss about it. The silence of TEPCO to the international community is loud.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf I see you also misunderstand what a meme is. I guess you can't ever be bothered to actually look something up.
The 2 individual was splashed by treated nuclear waste water and now are in Fukushima medical University under treatment for decontamination of the body @@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
Such a fabricated story and you believed that. LOL....Try listening to scientist instead of anti -Japanese weirdos in your country which would be either China or Korea. LOL...
I wonder, if the water is only for cooling, why can't it be recycled to keep cooling with the same water over and over?
You are brilliant.
Japan's nuclear reactor exploded. The water rushed directly into the reactor. There was serious nuclear radiation. It was not cooling water.
Because irradiated water needs to be stored away safely until it can be treated. You can't just keep recycling irradiated water over and over again without proper treatment to remove the radiation.
Japan should show us that households, agriculture and domestic factories use the water from ALPS as a promotion. Then all these debates and argues will disappear. People are busy and no time to study for this. We have so many issues around us. Just show us it is totally safe and any reports, any lectures from experts are NO required. All reports, experts already got contaminated by NOT Nuclear but Politics. I just want to see it is safe with my own eyes. And that's it.
That's a lot of expensive infrastructure for a publicity stunt. I say the release the water then sue the pants off them if it proves to have an environmental impact. Spoiler alert, it won't have an impact at all and a year from now all this will be forgotten. The real test/concern is to ensure they keep the high purity standards for the entire decommissioning.
If you want a summary of this video in a few words:
The common people who have not read the studies are concerned.
The science shows it is safe.
In other words, what the Japan and other agencies have shown, is that it is safe. But did you come to that conclusion from the video? If not, then was it because you skipped the parts where officials were speaking?
The technology to analyze the water is very underdeveloped. They aren't entirely sure of everything in there. That's why people didn't want Japan to release the waste water. It's a much more potent radioactive content before cleaning it, that they are hypothesis that ALPS isn't cleaning it sufficiently.
Basically, the expertise is lacking. And, they suspect the technology of ALPS isn't enough.
The contaminated water (or treated water as Japanese called it) from Fukushima is not only contained tritium, it contains tens of difference types of radioactive elements, which some of them have their half-life over thousands of year. Method of removing radioactive particles from a host still remained as a challenged subject in science, not mentioning use it in industrial scale. If Japan government and their scientists really done it as they claimed, they should be awarded with Noble prize, get the pattern of IPR and make a colossal amount of money.
Furthermore, Japan is not a country have abundant of freshwater. Why their government not use these "treated water" for their advantages such as drinking, washing and cultivating their lands, instead of dumping these useful resources to the ocean. It just not make sense!!! Unless the Japan government is fear of these "treated water" and just want to get rid of it in the cheapest way.
The full report clearly shows tritium is the only radionuclide that comes anywhere near any kind of action level. Since you are so concerned, please use the tritiated water your country releases for your own purposes.
The full report must be validated by S Korea, N Korea, Taiwa China and Russia. Why must we release it hastily and endangered out future.
@@yaucharles91 South Korea already did, China refused to participate yet complains loudly, Russia always demonizes Japan to draw attention away from the worst nuclear accident in history which of course is Chernobyl. How is anyone endangered by the release of this water? All nuclear power plants release it and nothing in world history has been injured by this practice.
I agreed with you. Since Japan would not recycle the "treated water from melted nuclear core liquid waste", it meant the water is not safe.
you do know there are ocean currents right? eventually it will just go to the american westcoast🤣
The irony is when Japan decided to release the water, Japan didnt consult the neighbouring countries but instead acted on the approval by USA 😂😂😂
IAEA has 178 member states. They have their own experts on the panel
USA also do the same for their waste water from their nuclear reactors .. the difference is they dun need to let you know when they do it.
@@lingth And all their nuclear navy, this is what they do all the time. They don't have tankers following the carriers and subs to hold their waste water. And their isn't any perceptible effects of all this release from all the nuclear navies. Also I don't even want to think about what the USSR submarines effluent was like, but for all I know it could be cleaner than the USA navy.
Where did you get this information from? How did you know Japan did not consult neighbouring counties?
@@bernardsoh3559 If they did, China and the rest of the countries would not have protested aint it?
The scariest part is when the Geiger counter is going crazy from high readings and the scientist laughs it off and says it’s ok. Very sad days
If it is so safe, those people who are involving in the decision should make it their drinking water or use it for their own farmand, not releasing it into the sea, and make their neighbors to have them as well.
Then you should use the tritiated water your country releases since you complain so.
They are already doing that. The people most affected is the people in Japan.
we are supposed to trust the same govt/monarchy that had slaughtered millions of people during ww2. LOL
this clown has been running damage control for years on multiple videos, mostly like fully vaxxed and will thankfully die in the next 5 years@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
doing what? they drink or they use it in their farms??
@@chewie94116
It'll be beneficial and insightful for the viewer if CNA bring several samples water from sea and river then test it at independent lab. Not just interview.
it will start a war as it lets the world know their dark secret sg will avoid
The water has been tested by labs in seven countries.
Its you again, tested by what countries
you should drink it all
You are 100% right. And there is no proof that the water is worst off. This is just propaganda and fear. When you talk to nuclear scientists, they all say this is safe.
On 25/10/23 ( Wednesday ) 11.10 am, 5 staffs from Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to "treated water from nuclear core liquid waste". Of the 5 staffs, 2 might need to be sent to hospital for further treatment due to high radiation readings on their bodies despite wearing full protective clothing.
Continually repeating misinterpreted information is not impressive.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Your continued denial of reality is impressive.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf I am able to read, you might want to learn this basic skill before making a f00I of yourself on the internet in the future.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk A fool calling other, a fool ( sigh ).
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf that dude has been in every comment about fukushima. Probably on a payroll by washington to sit infront of pc 24/7 doing "debunking".
We are discussing 1.3 million tonnes of Fukushima water, which is probably going to collect along other countries' shorelines. Few generations down the road, if discovered massive death was due to such incident, no one is going to take responsibility because these careless people won't be around by then. Why not use this safe water for factory operations, car washes, gardening, etc. rather than discharging it into the ocean? It just goes to demonstrate how their internal recycling process was impeded by their anxiety and uncertainty, which led them to discard the Fukushima water into the ocean. Nobody ask the Mayor or TEPCO such question.
Then why doesn't your country use the tritiated water you release for factory operations, car washes, gardening, etc. rather than discharging it into the ocean? All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water and nothing in world history has ever been harmed by this practice.
It's water in the ocean. It's not going to collect anywhere. It circulates around the entire planet and the radioactivity is gonna be so diluted it won't make a difference. 1.3 million tonnes is nothing compared to the 352 quintillion gallons of water already in the ocean.
As the fisherman said, they should have stored or store the water until radioactivity has gone, does not matter how many years. Terrible they are doing this to Japanese people.
So how would you propose to hold all water in the ocean until it's no longer radioactive? Since all water that ever existed on the planet is indeed radioactive, you should have never eaten anything in your entire life.
you are so terribly brainwashed by thepropoganda. how can naturally radioactive water compare with artifical radioactive water in terms of concentration? it is unbelievably ignorant for you to be so convinced that this nuclear waste water is safe! what is your judgement based on?your trust in the news? @@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
you should work for Fukushima nuclear plant, you're perfect for the job.@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
My 5 cents. Personally I find this to be one of the weaker episodes which CNA has produced over the years. It could be more useful perhaps if the CNA could perhaps elicit a response from the expert team on their thoughts relating to whether all contaminations, radioactive or otherwise, were indeed totally removed from the water save Tritium - since this is the main propagated argument from opponents -, whether there is an actual difference between waste cooling water and radioactive contaminated water - ie the water interacting with the actual radioactive rods, and finally what are the findings of domestic NGOs regarding their water monitoring results - since one of the critical point per opponents is that the base data including that of IAEA fundamentally comes from TEPCO or Japanese government sources.
Answers to these from a reputable neutral network like CNA can probably dispel most of the internet misinformation.
BTW, most Japanese do not patronise Tsukiji so they are likely selling predominantly to foreigners, and Japanese, being Japanese, will likely give a politically correct answer when a fairly nationalistic question is asked to them.
23:55
You could have read the report.
It's more important to analyze if the guidelines for radioactive waste removal is sufficient for that specific type of wastewater. The radioactive material actually was mixed with the water. I suspect that, the guidelines are only adequate for routinely collected wastewater, not the type Japanese has. Amendments need to be made. A fine needs to be placed on Japan. And, recommendations need to be made as to have a collective effort to help nations safely remove wastewater such as the one Japanese has.
@@kknn523 All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released this tritiated water. Why is it you think Japan should be the one fined? The re[port clearly shows it's no more dangerous as to what all NPP releases.
35:54, Dr. Alvin Chew crossed the line when he said China's concern is not legitimate due to politics, even if it doesn't seem like he has any proof that he tested the Fukushima water. Nor is it his business as nucleur "expert" to discuss the politics of other nations. Regarding Japan's activities, we are all justifiably just as concerned as China which is the reason why I don't think CNA has sufficiently covered everything we need to know having such "experts" on the show.
Great Video
just be transparent and allow international scientist to conduct lab test and their findings, this is to reestablish confidence to the general public, dont hold anything back is the key to regain trust.
Seven countries have tested the water so far. Not sure what sort of unrealistic definition of international is to you.
If TEPCO chose to keep quiet about the "treated water" incident on 25/10/23, that led to 2 staffs been sent to hospital due to high radiation readings on their naked bodies, despite wearing full protective clothing after being exposed directly to the "treated water", it would not be transparent in anything regarding the "treated water from melted nuclear core liquid waste".
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf Obviously you haven't read the full press release on that incident.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Please enlighten me on that incident.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf "Four workers were cleaning the piping when a drainage hose suddenly came off. They were splashed with the tainted liquid waste, which was not the wastewater running inside the system.
All four were wearing full face masks, and test results showed none of them had ingested radioactive particles. None have shown any health issues, according to plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, or TEPCO. "
Can anyone undo the adverse effects later on people around? They have already admitted that there are radioactive substances in the water but just claimed that "it is treated and safe according to standards". Standards are only "best known parameters" suggested by the so-called experts now. Can they guarantee? Or just have lines of fine print disclaiming responsibilities to cover themselves. Who will bear the responsibility for the victims affected by these radioactive waters after 5 or 10 years? If it is so safe and harmless, all these "Safe radioactive water" should be reused by TEPCO and, especially the politicians in Japan and not continuously releasing tonnes of radioactive contaminants to the world. Japanese politicians are irresponsible by forcing the world to take a hazardous risk that may affect the generations to come.
There are no "adverse effects".
Water wa scheduled to be released in 2023, the plan was mooted in 2016 and countriees had a right of appeal. IAEA gave its thumbs up and China top nuclear scientist is the deputy director of IAEA and did not object. This is a smear campaign by little pinks.
Why don't you complain when Chinese nuclear power plants release higher levels of contamination than what Japan is releasing? Oh yeah, the CCP just ordered a stop to the regular release of data. LOL...
It isn't just about Fukushima. Releasing contaminated water into the ocean makes it a global event. Other nations, other nuclear waste, other food supplies from the oceans are involved. Where does it all go? The currents take it to the rest of the world. It doesn't just stay in your current map. The outer waters of every current can go into other current streams. One question I keep asking is whether radiation is heavier than water. Does the radioactive water sink to the bottoms of the oceans? How can we test for radiation if we only test the top of the water? What about everything we eat from the oceans? Plants absorb contaminated air, water, soil, etc. What about seaweed? You shared the effects on fish that were closest to the contamination, and shared that most effects will not be discovered for many years and generations - of plant and animal life as well as human life. What are the effects we need to think about? What were the effects of radiation when the nuclear bombs were first dropped in Japan during the war -- when the power of nuclear energy was first discovered? If an earthquake caused this disaster, what about all the other nuclear plants across the globe - what happens if there are quakes that destroy them? Why anyone thinks nuclear energy is "safe" is beyond my ability to understand!!!!!!
All nuclear power plants on the planet have always released the same tritiated water. Get over it.
My question is: What is being done with all of the radioactive material / nuclear waste that is being removed from the water prior to it's release? Is it being stored somewhere? The treatment system is referred to as 'similar to a water softener' and my understanding of how they work is that they need to be cleaned / flushed on a regular basis to be able to work effectively (which ends up going back into the water supply / wastewater) or there is a filter (or filters) that needs to be replaced regularly with certain types of systems. How is this system cleaned to ensure it continues to remove the waste that it is intended to remove and where does the waste go or where is it being stored throughout this ongoing process?
The water is likely extra clean for now because of all the worldwide and local scrutiny. But Fukushima needs to do this non-stop for 30+ years!
With the way most nuclear projects go, it may take well longer than their 30-year timeline for full clean up and likely end up costing billions of dollars more than budgeted - all while producing *0 watts* of power.
This Fukushima waste water needs high levels of cleaning since it was *directly* exposed to the radioactive core of Fukushima reactors #1 thru #3. So it will contain Strontium-90 with *β radiation* and Cesium-137 with even more harmful *gamma* radiation.
The IAEA is said to be doing regular monitoring and let's hope they're ever vigilant on their Solom duty.
There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I was not referring to tritiated water. My post was concerned about the _potential_ of _much more_ radioactive isotopes of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 escaping.
That could potentially happen if there any lapses in measurement at the worst time over such a long 30+ years period of wastewater release. And we just have to take IAEA word on it. Unless there are continuous independent monitoring also.
@@beyondfossil The water in those tanks has already been treated and the full report called, IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS-Treated Water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, First Interlaboratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water clearly shows there is no concern for any isotope, not even tritium.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Sure, but those 1061 wastewater tanks will soon be completely *emptied* out into the ocean. My concern is still the decades long non-stop process of releasing treated wastewater into the ocean. It needs to be done without any mistakes.
@@beyondfossil Not at all. I already showed you the water could be all released right now all at one time without any negative consequences. All nuclear power plants release this water and they don't store it after treatment like Japan did.
Wow! I am impressed that CNA actually talked about the track record of TEPCO 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Thats a balanced take.
not always CNA is well known and is being sponsored by U$ state dept.
After the Fukushima earthquake, a large amount of debris was washed away. Many washed up on the coast of Oregon, USA. Fishing boats also washed ashore. Treated water also flows through this route.
Treated water flows into every waterway and every ocean. So what's your point?
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
The problem is probably the tritium that South Korea is discharging into the Sea of Japan. The tritium being washed away by Fukushima will follow ocean currents to the United States. However, it cannot even be detected in the ocean 20km away from Fukushima. Ocean currents don't go to Korea. Why are you making a fuss about something that can't even be detected?
@@user-rg8yx5nl4d I have NEVER "made a fuss" about the tritium that all nuclear power plants release. It is you by claiming that since debris/boats will wash ashore to the US that the Fukushima water does as well which is diluted millions of times further, even testing safe right at the plant.
the guy with the herd of cows ... I just want to pass-out at his loyalty to his cows. these are the people that make society livable. incredible.
I like the tough fisherman and strong cattle farmer. Well done...hope to see more about this very important topic. Here in USA Bill Gates is trying to build many nuclear plants and there is very little in the news about it.
From what I've read, Gates is building nuclear plants based on Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. These plants are purportedly much safer, scalable, and maintenance friendly.
@@joelhunton8600 that what these sick twisted scumbags always say - pure fiction
If the Japanese Government is 100 % confident with the water's safety, use the water domestically. If people from the rest of the country support their act as well, take a flight to Japan and import their seafood to show your support.
Theyd rather use water from nearby rivers for farming than remove chemical pollution and salt from seawater
@sgakm.6582 Then you're just poisoning everything more than it already is with all that nuclear waste, oil drilling, fracking etc
Why doesn't your country use the tritiated water it releases for domestic purposes?
Idk if u know this, but normal reactor core cooling water contains more tritium than this Fukushima waste treated water. Yet countries around the world dumps it into the ocean, claiming that tritium is safe when diluted. So the question comes, would you allow nuclear plants in your own country use the cooling water for agriculture?
@@Junispro31 Tritium comes from nature daily in greater quantities than man could ever produce, so yes agriculture all over the world has always been watered with tritiated water.
@28:54, i wonder what is the test result of the fish. CNA any idea?
Politicians and scientists already ate raw fish to show that it is safe.
Would you drink the water from there if you think it is safe?
I hope more people feel fearful so I can eat cheap sashimi.
You avoid the main issue, when are we going to stop future dumping of everybody's nuclear contaminated into the sea after this precedence
Can you ask say Iran or Korea or US not to dump similar kind of contaminants into the sea as fter this?
Enjoy!
If they wanted to why would they wait for Japan or anybody else's permission beforehand? Your logic makes no sense, they are not forced to not dump it because nobody has done it before, they're not doing it because they haven't wanted or needed to yet. Precedence only works when all parties are bound to the same set of rules...in the case of different countries this is not true. @@shencheanglow3726
@@shencheanglow3726 Many other countries with nuclear reactors, such as China, Russia, France etc, have been releasing tritiated water into the ocean for decades. I don’t see anyone complaining in the past decades?
Good nite and good luck !
I just returned from Osaka. My family joined many people from Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China to eat seafood.
That's great. Post here again in 10, 20, 40 years time and let me know how healthy you are.
Dont forget to remind Tom nook of your well being in 2063
@@TomNook.Will do. 😊
@@TomNook. That's dumb. No one in world history has ever been harmed by eating fish due to tritiated water releases. No even possible.
So many sheeps in this world !
I just noticed that the water flowing from the "waterfall" like thing isn't clear but has black coloured substance in it
They’re really milking that one shot of the water flowing out…
So they released it.. and you cant do anything about it.. either you never eat anything from the sea ever again..or you just live with it.
If you are concerned, why have you ever eaten anything from the sea? All nuclear power plants have always released the same tritiated water.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk I am not concerned..I am saying to those who are concerned.. I am not a young man . I dun have many decades left to be worried about it affecting me . Chances are highly I would die of a illness from other means then eating seafood
I believe they have made a terrible mistake doing this . 🌎🥺
Your opinion is counter to all the scientists on the matter
Japan's nuclear reactor exploded. The water rushed directly into the reactor. There was serious nuclear radiation. It was not cooling water. 😅
No reactor in Japan ever exploded, they melted down. There never was any "serious nuclear radiation" to leave the containment vessels, that's why thousands work there everyday without injury.
Besides fishes, how about seaweed?
The other increases include water price by an astounding 30%, carpark fees by 27%, town council S&CC, ERP rates, electricity and gas tariffs, university fees, and kindergarten and childcare centre rates.
Soon to follow will be the introduction of a sugar tax and carbon tax. Not satisfied, the PAP will increase the GST from the current 7% to 9%.
You're living in the past .. 8% now
The focus shouldn't only be oj Tritium. How abaout the Carbon-14, Strontium-90 and Iodine-29
The focus of this water release is on Tritium because the other contaminants have already been removed from the water. As tritium water and normal water cannot be easily distinguished and separated, thus why tritium contaminated water is released .
I agreed with you since the other radioactive elements were reported to be present in reports a few years ago after the "treatment".
Now!!!!??? Now? They've been releasing that water from day one, and when I tell people the Pacific is poisoned, they want to argue. They didn't just start yesterday, and they started in 2011.
The most perfect way is for the Japanese government have to declare that it will no longer discharge water into the sea, then just silently and quickly discharge it because anyway they have to treat that water in the future.
They never had to inform anyone before release in the first place. All other countries just release their tritiated water after treatment.
Finding it hard to trust Japan as they have never been truthful, with many hidden lies, and never apologise their evil deeds and actions
Show where they are lying.
its not the lies but more like some are proud of what their grandparents have done
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunkSnow milk, airbag, the event that lead to this Tepco plant fail, etc.
@@chichangwufalsified data practice.
@@tvboxusage9180 Show where they are lying. No one has any clue what you are talking about.
Meh, people will forget about the water discharge in less than a month.
No joke, they have all forgotten the whole plant was in the ocean.
You were right. One commentator claimed to have eaten sashimi in Japan. 2 weeks after your post.
when I first learned of this disaster. My immediate concern was over the nuclear waste water being dumped into the pacific ocean. I was raised, eating wild Pacific coast salmon which is one of the world's best seafood delicacies. I have seen a disastrous change in the quality of our salmon shortly after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Earlier documentaries about the Fukushima disaster revealed that there was over 300 million tons of nuclear contaminated waste leaking from hastily built steel holding tanks. I learned that the japanese workers at the nuclear plant sacrificed their own lives in efforts to keep the nuclear reactors cooled in efforts to prevent a meltdown. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami was unpredictable and unprecedented and the reality of such a disaster of such a great magnitude was virtually impossible to prevent this type of disaster. I was livid and furious when I first learned of this disaster. I haven't kept up with the incident over the last few years because my anger was causing backlashes at my japanese/ canadian friends who I was taking my anger out on. Then I came to the realization that it was not their fault that this happened. The amount of nuclear pollution in the pacific ocean is believed to last possibly for the next 750 years or longer. Some of my friends and family have mentioned that our Pacific coast salmon are showing signs of nuclear poisoning and various types of cancers are increasing around my home region and along much of the pacific coast of the United States and Canada. Right away since the 2011 disaster in japan, I pointed blame directly to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011
LOL, all nuclear power plant in world history have always released the same tritiated water, most of which goes into the Pacific Ocean.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
This is false
@@marcodepellegrin2814 Show any nuclear power plant on the planet that doesn't release tritiated water. Such a plant does not exist unless it was built and never operated.
"...Japanese workers at the nuclear power plant sacrificed their own lives..."
Dude WTF, no one died or was injured by Fukushima radiation.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
They all release tritiated water and that clearly shows in the statistics of childhood cancers (esp. leukemia) within the 5km from the coast of e.g. Baltic Sea, Irish sea etc.
However, these small T quantities cannot be compared with the Fuku disaster, where Bldg. No. 3 was pulverised by a nuclear detonation, Bldg. No. 4 by a H2 explosion, and nobody knows how deep in the ground are the cores, whether 5m, 50m or 500m and whether they are still sinking or not.
The only thing we know for sure is that we will have to cool the cores with freshwater for centuries and suffer the deadly consequences.
It would have been interesting for you to have included the results from the fish the fisherman sent in for testing.
It wouldn't be useful for the media unless they could fear monger it.
The water samples are taken and given/tested by the Japanese. There is some trust issue here. The refusal of sampling & testing by external parties like those from Korean and Chinese speak the volume of objectivity of the whole process. IAEA only tested sample provided by the Japanese, and they haven't issued any statement about the safety of sea water after the release of the contaminated water. CNA, why did you avoid looking into what Korean and Chinese concerns.
You could have read the full report before spreading false information. Seven countries have tested the water. South Korea is one of them. China refused to participate since they need the propaganda potential.
The stupidity of the comments is more toxic than the water
This means you!
Five Questions Raised by Chinese Representatives at the World Health Assembly:
If the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water is safe, why doesn't Japan keep it for its own use?
Why doesn't Japan use the "safe" nuclear-contaminated water for domestic agriculture and manufacturing?
If the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water is safe, why doesn't Japan discharge it into its domestic lakes?
Is discharging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea the only viable option?
What will be the long-term global impact of discharging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea?
Impressive & Balanced documentary. More people should watch CNA Insider.
The Qinshan nuclear plant in the eastern Zhejiang Province discharged around 218 trillion becquerels of tritium in 2021, roughly 10 times the maximum annual release set for the Fukushima water at 22 trillion becquerels, according to the data from a yearbook on the Chinese nuclear power industry.8 Aug 2023
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has reported the presence of radioactive substances such as Cesium (Cs)-137, Strontium (Sr)-90, Cobalt (Co)-60, etc., at levels ranging from 0.1 to 1 becquerels per liter (Bq/L). It's important to note that there is no mention of radioactive materials contained in nuclear fuels, such as Uranium and Plutonium.
Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope that chemically resembles calcium. Consequently, during the intake of calcium by living organisms, Strontium-90 may be inadvertently absorbed. Strontium-90, in particular, has a tendency to accumulate in the bones of living organisms. Furthermore, there is a possibility of Strontium-90 being biomagnified through the food chain. Specifically, when plankton absorbs water containing Strontium-90, there is a potential for the accumulation of Strontium-90 in fish and other organisms that consume the plankton. Strontium-90 absorbed into the body emits radiation, posing a potential risk of exposure to tissues sensitive to radiation, such as bone marrow, which may have implications for health.
LOL your concept is already wrong .... functional plants cooling water is isolated from core , no contamination
fukushima is rated level 7 hazard by IAEA , the damaged core is expose to environment, contamination is in air water soil
This is what japan has been feeding this kind of news to global, pure misinformation
Exactly
after filtration is safe but yet release into ocean??
It's triated like all nuclear power plant discharges are. They are discharged to ocean to be fall on the side of safety, ocean working as final dilution.
You cannot "filter" tritiated water.
Recently I saw a video on media platform… fish is dying, bird is dying in Japan and also I saw a video saying that Japan government is admit the radiation is dangerous to human… May I know any organizations help us to clarify this…. We are so worri…
Which video did you watch?
Show any fish or bird that has died from Fukushima radiation.
The man with the cows is the only one with integrity
People seem to really be over reacting to the absolute drops of water that get very quickly diluted and distributed throughout the ocean, it'd be one thing if it was a settling pond where there's no water turn over but the ocean is a vast amount of water that is constantly moving about. It's this level of hysteria which is why we don't have more nuclear power, humanity as a whole would would rather to continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere at larger and larger rates to satisfy our growing need to use electricity than have any potential risk involved with rare nuclear occurrences.
You seemed to forget TEPCO would be dumping "treated water from melted nuclear core liquid waste" for 30 years. Also, 2 staffs had been sent to hospital for high radiation readings, due to direct exposure to the "treated water" despite wearing full protective clothing.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf Multiple countries, including China, dump way more contaminated water daily during standard operating procedures.
@@spaceageGecko As I said 2 hours before, Only Japan dump "treated water from melted nuclear core liquid waste" into the ocean. I wondered how's the 2 unfortunate staffs with high radiation readings in hospital doing.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf do you think water that's cooling a melted nuclear core is somehow different from water that cools a perfectly intact nuclear core? Hint: it's not.
And yes two staff got sent to the hospital while wearing protective equipment, because the water got inside the protective equipment making it useless.
@@DreamyCheshire-up9rf The water has been tested, you are spreading Chinese propaganda. China dumps more contaminated water by a huge amount.
so safe they should have just pipe the water into their drinking reservoir instead of discharging into the sea.
Then you should use the tritiated water your country releases for drinking as well.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk lol wut? "your country releases"? so which country is that? you don't know and somehow you know we are releasing radiation water? hahahahahaha guess you don't need radioactive substance to be brain dead with that nonsense logic with no facts. what a dumbass.
A release of a questionable substance into the environment that will go on regularly for the next three decades...I Wonder why this story is getting so very little coverage world-wide ? Because the whole world needs to know about it.
Maybe because the substance is common all over the world and has been in every waterway since the beginning of time.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk and what substance might that be ??
@@urankjj The "questionable substance" isn't any mystery at all, it's called tritium and it is produced in nature via cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere. It's an isotope of hydrogen, that's why it can't be removed. Tritium is literally everywhere on the planet.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk So then why have they been storing the water up for the last 12 yrs until they ran out of room to store it ?
@@urankjj They didn't have to after treatment, they should have been releasing it this whole time just like all nuclear power plants do. A TEPCO PR blunder to try to placate to people like you who think the water is somehow dangerous.
Not just there but also the whole Pacific and the South China Sea is already highly radioactive. I think all our oceans and seas are already radioactive! And all of them are highly polluted!
All oceans that ever existed in Earth's history have been radioactive for millions of years before anyone knew what a Fukushima was.
It's really all Chinese propaganda to me. The Chinese regularly release water measuring nearly 10x the amount as Japan, and we never hear about it.
nuclear polluted water vs nuclear waste water, if you think it is fine, you are welcome to eat seafood from Fukushima!
@@baohuawu805 Millions of people in Japan do eat their seafood and they have the longest life expectancy on the planet.
If they hated Japanese why bother being the biggest importer of Japanese seafood for years until now? Failed logic of brain washed idiots.
Sounds like you're the Propaganda. Most Americans are even aware of this, i wonder why... You can't even differentiate the difference between nuclear wastewater that's regularly released by all nuclear power plant and wastewater that comes in direct contact with a core. It's absolutely possible that the release is safe based on science, and it's just Chinese playing politics. However, the idea that this is the same as wasteful released by any nuclear plants released shows how how much you know.
We never hear about it because Only Japan dump "treated cooling water from melted nuclear core liquid waste" into the ocean.
This is insane. The long term damage is irreversible. If the water is safe,why not store it in Tokyo city?
Because its not that harmful (chinas own nuclear reactor actually are dirtier and makes nearby water so too) and also transporting the water or using it to drink is a pointless exercise cause the moving of said water and the filtering plus desalination (if for drinking) would ultimately cause more pollution and cost tons of money just to prove a bunch of crazies wrong. If you still think theres long term damage, then you may as well be anti nuclear which is a whole other debate.
@@Tcmter23 Ah, the good ol' "look over there" argument
because it is save and it is saltwater. Where do you want to store so much salt water forever. There is no issue here other than "I don't understand so its bad"
@@Tcmter23 anti china bot
@@TomNook. ah, and the neither scientific nor logical counter argument coming from you. Please educate yourself by reading the IAEA reports
If it's so safe, why don't they pump into their lake or recycling it for industrial use?
The same reason your country doesn't do that with the tritiated water you country releases.
When you take away a man's faith in the reliance of a means of living, you also take away his motivation to endure in that means because it feels futile. The insidiousness of this type of depressive erosion is unfathomable.
If only the radiated water had real effect. I’d love to see Godzilla for real.
China🇨🇳 accusing Japan's negligence in Fukushima wastewater release is like a robber calling police to report a robbery.
Not funny.
@@janetmalcolm3403very funny. I see many of you in this video
Yes, because no-one can do anything wrong if the accuser has also done something wrong.
This argument is the reason why no-one is ever wrong.
Don’t be a dumbass.
The nuke water in Fukushima is dangerous.
You should eat more Japanese seafood as a show of support.
Tell me in a decade whether you have cancer.
Keep in touch.
@ArabiaReja973
You should feed on those fishes caught off from Japan sea.
the water is diluted to the point it is safe but not in the immediate area as it spreads out it is at safe level.
Or you could have read the full analysis report and found it is safe.
They will continue to dump it for at least the next 30 years. Go figure out what Japan's Evon water will do to this region.
eee nothing ??
Did you understand why it is released over thirty years instead of dumping it all at once?
China 🇨🇳 is alone in this Fukushima protest.
- This is not about safety or science, but about hate.
Who are you? Forrest Gump? Gordon Chang? ONLY crazy followers of the US agree to whatever the white supremacists say.
Not true. Other countries are also in this Fukushima protest including Japanese people like me.
Clearly they're not, S Korea and Japanese residents are also concerned.
@@Kat-qi5tp lastChang is a troll account specifically set up to be anti Chinese. He roams around youtube videos just posting such content.
I saw south korean protest about it..are they friend of China? LOL
The Japanese should use the water for drinking/domestic uses or for agriculture since the G said they are safe!
they are so afraid of dumping into their own land despite worldwide protest, wonder how bad is the contamination...
Desalination would require more energy which would ultimately pollute and cost more money just to prove crazies wrong. Desalination also has its own problems as well. Plus lots of other nuclear plants in certain other countries are dirtier (of which the water around em too are )but those arent mentioned funny enough.
@@Tcmter23
Japan is afraid to use the "safe" water to wash the streets in Japan.
They gain nothing from poisoning there own home. 1 of Japans biggest industries is seafood. And products. Why would they threaten that.
I'm guessing the powers that be are still thinking the solution to pollution is dilution.
What do you think is being done? D U H
There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact, yet they are diluting it even further by adding water upon release and doing it over decades.
After 50 years of rule - uninterrupted - the PAP has failed to develop sustainable (population growth, education and economic development) policies that will enable locals to drive our economy, that is, creating jobs and attracting investments, with foreigners playing a complementary role. Instead, the situation has been turned on it head. Foreigners are now the main force behind our economy and Singaporeans are playing the supporting role. Lees’ words, not mine. Dr Chee Soon Juan
so what when dr chee could be usa puppet
I truly feel sorry for the people because seafood is practically all the Japanese eat. It is/was a fairly economical source of protein. If I visit Japan again I will be eating plants and tofu exclusively.
Your loss. The Japanese live longer than anyone on the planet eating that seafood.
Canadas drinking water limits for tritium was 7 becquerals per liter in 2010 now it,s 10,000 bequerals per liter 😮
Wow that 'expert' sounds very positive about there being minimal effects from Fukushima water release. Maybe Insight should have had a second 'expert' opinion to balance his views.
There are no experts who would claim the water is not safe for release.
Please use it for domestic farming and cooking, don’t waste water and dump it to the oceans.
All nuclear power plants do the same. Fukushima is no exception here.
The Japanese are stupid but not so as to use salt water for farming
Please use the tritiated water your country releases for farming and cooking. At least yours doesn't have sea water in it.
I was reading “The Future is Now”, which mentioned nuclear waste water continue to gradually release heat for hundreds of years. Nuclear waste water in the ocean can be devastating to the environment as the ocean will heat up even faster.
And whats the scientific basis for that? Anyone can write a book after all. Including certain governments too. Now dont think im attacking you, im genuinely curious.
@@Tcmter23💀 you can’t be serious
And how much water is that compared to all the water in the planet?
@@Tcmter23 science books have reference sections in the back citing all researches and scientific publications, authors can’t just make up stories. If you’re interested in the topic you can read the book too, or do your own researches, an easy start would be this thing called “Google”. Everyone can write books, not everyone gets published.
It's the nuclear waste that does that, but the point is that they filter it out.
I stand few hundred meter away, from nuclear power station(decomission already)20 years+++ ago picture by friends in united state of America.
but till now no side effects of radioactive.still stay strong and gain weight.
Just the testimony of approve by WHO is ok.im sure there people monitor the surrounding area of not passing certain level.tq.
Nothing compared to the Radio Active seas around Bikini Island Atoll in the South Pacific due to Nato nuclear testing
I do not understand why Japan is doing this when an alternative is already available
why not ask china why their pollution levels are much higher than japan and why no one is talking about them?
because this is save and the best way. N
@@mastermindtan1871 that is lie
@@baohuawu805 China releases more tritiated water than Japan does.
@@baohuawu805it's true, in China, they literally release nuclear wastes on the beach through hidden pipes going to the ocean straight. Two of the hidden pipes broke, and stinky black waste water started to come out literally where people were swimming and they started wondering what the water was and the pipe was for. And some were taking videos in the process.
I saw a video where people in China were checking radiation on Japanese products and it turned out they had less radiation levels than their very own homes in China lol
propaganda , stop shilling like a mouth piece. anime pfp , get your pedo ass out of here
show the video link😮
Radioactivity tests done in Japan soils by environmentalists from USA in the past decade have always shown higher radioactivity than normal. The entire Japan has high radioactivity!
Soil radioactivity tests done in Japan by environmentalists from USA in the past decade have always shown higher radioactivity than normal. The entire Japan has high radioactivity!
I saw those too they're hilarious 🤣
The thing is, this is total hypocrisy. It is almost impossible to differentiate the various cesium-137, strontium-90, "insert fission byproduct here", etc. contamination from sea water. Also the tritium contamination itself is negligible since it's not easily absorbed by humans and is already present in greater quantities in various parts of the world without any affect on human lives. The amount of contaminated water released by France each year equals to 500x times the amount released by Tepco during the process.
The contamination from nuclear tests in the ocean contaminated the oceans for years to come, and has already affected billions of humans lives. Trace amount of plutonium-239 can be found is humans who never got near the ocean.
That’s why millions of fishes keeps washing up on beaches and ocean shores. Thanks a lot Japan
Use your common sense, now Japan nuclear contaminated water are allow to be discharged into the sea, tomorrow same kind of polluted nuclear contaminated water from say Taiwan or Australia or Russia will do the same. Everyone from now on are allow to dump such pollutants into the sea because of this Japanese precedence. What happen to our sea then?
use your common sense, china has been releasing nuclear contaminated water for some years already go google search it
All nuclear power plants discharge similar triated water, it is done by Taiwan, PRC, Russia, US, France etc. and have been doing for last 60 years.
Please go educate yourself. Many other countries with nuclear reactors, such as China and France, have been releasing tritiated water into the ocean for decades. I don’t see anyone complaining then.
@@darthvader4209 nuclear polluted water vs nuclear waste water
@@baohuawu805 , treated nuclear polluted water ... go read the IAEA report. Don't be a smart alec
now ban japan sea product, best fish market in the world now worst
I hope you get to experience freedom of thought one day. Do you not understand what happened 10 years ago?
Guess we gotta ban chinese and ones plus a whole bunch of other ones too cause they have nuclear reactors putting out unideal water too. If so though, please do, ill grab seafood for cheap.
Then you need to ban seafood from 32 countries.
Suddenly everyone is an expert on contaminated waste water from nuclear plant.
You could too if you just read the full report.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk No thank you. I don't comment on any subject matter that is outside of my area of expertise.
@@cheekong08 You just did. Twice.
😂😂@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
On an earthquake- and volcano-territory like Japan, nuclear power plants 'might' not be the wisest source of energy to use...
Japan pls drink your own water if it’s so safe instead of trying to flood it elsewhere 😂
Every country with nuclear power plants discharges triated water and have been doing so as long as nuclear power plants have existed. And the amount discharged annually in Fukushima is actually less than normal nuclear power plant discharges annually.
Your own piss is safe. Try drinking that instead of flushing it down
Why don't you drink the tritiated water your country releases? At least yours doesn't have sea water in it.
Let us all boycott all japanese products such as cars, machinery, food, electronics, cosmetics to let Japan knows how international pacific nations felt when Japan poison the pacific ocean with radioactive waste.
Since Japanese government claimed the radioactive waste water is safe, then why not they used these radioactive water to water their food crop?
Then you should be banning products from 32 countries, INCLUDING YOUR OWN. All countries with nuclear power plants have always released this same tritiated water.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk lol so dumb , their nuclear plant are not damaged , cooling isolated from core... discharge waters are safe. fukushima is a different story, level 7 crisis rated by IAEA
... so what was the result of the farmer fish test? it is the only independent testing result. why not show the result as well? everyone wanted to compare tepco result of 10 Bq/L with the farmer fish.
You could read the report that shows the testing results by six countries. There is no mystery here.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Let me guess the six countries you talking about are the one that is in bed with Japan?
@@Shion0Hibiki The report is not from the Japanese Government, nor is it from TEPCO. One of the countries 'protesting' the release was South Korea which backfired on them since they had to admit the water was safe to release after they tested their samples.
@@Shion0Hibiki Read, IAEA Review of Safety Related Aspects of Handling ALPS-Treated Water at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, First Interlaboratory Comparison on the Determination of Radionuclides in ALPS Treated Water, before making further uneducated comments.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Like I have said the six nation you talk about is in bed with Japan. South Korea Government is one of them. South Korean people are the one that fighting for stopping the release, not their government.
First of all the sea water used to cool the out of control nuclear chain reaction was never captured and put in tanks, only a small amount was. This is an on going disaster.
Thank you!
What disaster? Nothing has died from Fukushima radiation.
The world, and especially the US and California who receives the tides from Japan, should sue Japan in world court for their irresponsible conduct
The US and California also releases the same tritiated water, more than Japan does.
Besides, for a lawsuit to proceed, there needs to be an injured party.
Bias report. Singapore does not have ALPS technology and Japan did not release the detail. Singapore does not even have a national technology and testing authority. So on what basis does NUS speak like am expert? As far as i am concern, no merit
Since they claimed that it's safe, they should build swimming pools with these "treated" water.
Then you should be doing the same with the tritiated water your country releases.
It doesn’t matter whatever, whoever said and demonstrate, it is no use. As long as the u.s. said YES !
Can you not pull out the strontium 90 and sell it to a space program? Donate the ceasium 137 for cancer treatments? It must be very difficult to separate all that material, maybe too time consuming and resource intensive? Each country could help out so that we don’t do things like this to ourselves and our children, to our homes. Sorry no one tried to help you with all this Japan! 😔
There is a recent report of tens of thousands of dead fishes on the shores of Hokkaido.
You fell for Chinese social media propaganda. Different sea and long before the water release started.
So rather than store it where they used to store it especially since they just dumped it in the ocean and it should be empty. They dump it straight into the ocean instead.
Wow neat.
All other nuclear power plants just release it, they don't keep it in tanks for years.
fukushima water release was so shoking that south korean activists have criticised Japan's plan, saying it will contaminate the ocean.
South Korea releases more tritiated water than Japan does.
This is why nuclear power, certainly in its present form is just not viable, that is not to say nuclear energy research should stop, but reactors that melt down if cooling pumps fail are just crazy.
Not viable? Sixty years of operation prove nuclear to be the safest.
I always wonder just how all those protesters would handle the radioactive water??? It's great to protest but please, at least have a clue for an alternate solution.
In fact, the water released was so harmless one could use the water in the tanks for drinking water with ZERO risk of any harm from the trivial amounts of radiation in it. Note that there is no recorded case in history of anyone being harmed by the feeble radiation from tritium... and this despite tons of it being made for use in thermonuclear weapons. I'm a physician who has personally studied all of the major examinations of biological effects of radiation on humans conducted over the last 100 years, and much of the discussion of same. I'm also trained in the sciences... at Harvard. The tales told by hysterical liars such as Greenpeace of danger from that water are 100.00% entirely falsehood. It's hardly surprisoing that those here allgeing there was some threat from the water neglect to mention their medical and scientific qualifications... either in general or more importantly with respect to issues of biological effects of radiation on humans. Hysterical and entirely baseless fear of radiation is the norm, thanks to the hundreds of millions spent per year by the fossil fuel companies, in part, who know that only nuclear power poses a threat to the continued dependence on their products. And thanks to contemptibly fake and fraudulent "environmentalists" who, either paid off by the fossil fuel companies (as was the case with the Sierra Club and NRDC) or simply from massive dogma and faith-based ignorance oppose nuclear power and baselessly fear radiation.
Note I have all my life been a (far) leftist, a fighter for social justice, for free medical care for all, and for extensive and sound management of public health, and vocal when there are REAL public health threats (such as those from lead paint, and lead and other toxins in the water in Flint and elsewhere). Deadly to effective efforts to improve public health is the dissemination of hysterical lies, such the radio-phobic hysteria about the harmless water in those tanks at Fukushima, or the (entirely totally harmless) trivial amounts of radiation released by US above ground low yield nuclear bomb testing in Utah and Nevada, or insane hysterical claims of harm from the totally trivial and harmless amounts of radiation released after the Three Mile Island and Fukushima accidents.
Radiation is basically harmless, for near all intents and purposes and real world situations, but FEAR of it is massively deadly:
2000 people died in Japan due to a totally needless rapid evacuation of the area around the Fukushima accident, despite the UN World Health Organization AND an independent research team that published in Nature (one of the most respected peer-reviewed journals of science and medicine) which found that so little radioactive Cesium 137 and Strontium 90 (the two main potentially problematic isotopes) was released in the Fukushima melt downs that there was ZERO chance of any increased risk of cancer or other disease to ANYONE... even one living a kilometer from the accident. But people in intensive care units were evacuated, stacked up in high school gyms, and DIED by the hundreds, in hysterical and deadly reaction to fear of NON EXISTENT danger from radiation.
In western Europe, 100,000 to 200,000 women elected to have abortions for otherwise wanted pregnancies when they heard criminally irresponsible news reports of a "plume of radiation" wafting over toward them from Chernobyl. There WAS a "plume" of radiation that DID waft over... but the levels of radiation in it were a fraction of normal background radiation. THAT the news did not mention. Pregnant survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings received 1000 to 10,000 and more times the dose of radiation of that people exposed to the Chernobyl "plume" got. Their new born babies were found to have NO higher level any issues that could even remotely be related to radiation exposure than a control group of similar folks who were not exposed to the bomb's radiation. These babies... and their mothers... were followed for FIFTY YEARS, medically, and compared to the control group, and over all that time there was NO greater prevalence or incidence of any medical issue that could remotely be related to radiation exposure.
Again: Radiation is for near all intents and purposes ENTIRELY harmless to humans (at worst). But hysterical and ignorant fear of it is HUGELY deadly.
How is it that radiation poisoning can cause death in humans if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans? How is it that there are multiple harmful effects from radiation in humans (including death) and something called acute radiation syndrome if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans? How is it that even too much UV radiation from the sun can damage the DNA in human skin cells which can lead to skin cancer and nearly 20 Americans die each day from Melanoma and 7,650 deaths were attributed to Melanoma in 2022 if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans?
Why is it that the people evacuated from Pripyat were told three days, but decades later still not allowed to return due to high levels of radiation? How is it that the Liquidators (clean up crew) could only remove radioactive materials from the roof of the reactor for 2-3 minutes because of such high radiation if radiation is "ENTIRE:Y harmless" to humans, yet with all of the protection they used, radiation sickness still occurred? How is it that cancer rates and birth defects rose drastically in the area after the meltdown if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans? How is it that the Russian soldiers that occupied the Chernobyl area during the first few month of invading Ukraine got radiation sickness from digging in radioactive soil if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans?
Why is it that the people of Bikini Atoll still can't return to their homes due to such high levels of radiation, and fishing not allowed in the area due to high levels of radiation in the waters and fish if radiation is "ENTIRELY harmless" to humans?
Are scientists & governments telling lies about how UNSAFE radiation is and/or can be? Is it the scientists and governments causing this "hysterical and ignorant fear" by telling people that is it harmful (especially in high doses) and can be deadly?
@@wildwolfwind6557 It only begins to be harmful past a certain level. There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact.
@@ForbiddTV Are you referring to tritium at certain levels or radiation overall? When a person says radiation is ENTIRELY harmless, it is incorrect. Radiation poisoning is a thing and radiation sickness is a thing because radiation exposure in high doses or with prolonged exposure can cause problems including death as has happened in the past. If it wasn't the case, why do they wear the special suits to work near the radioactive material? There are more types of radiation than just tritium. Tritium is much safer than other radiation, yes, but the other radiation (the 99% being removed) isn't as safe is it? Otherwise why would they need their special suits and why would they feel the need to remove the other 99% of the radioactive material? Where does the unsafe 99% go? Does it just magically vanish? And if radiation is so harmless, why do people fear nuclear weapons being used? and not the the explosiveness of the nuclear weapons, but fallout. Why is it people would fear something that is said to be ENTIRELY harmless, like nuclear fallout?
@@wildwolfwind6557 Everything on the planet is and always has been radioactive. Life on this planet would not exist without radiation. No one was injured by Fukushima radiation and the areas bombed in WWII are thriving communities today. An unfounded fear of radiation just because you are taught to fear it isn't logical.
@@wildwolfwind6557 Everything on the planet is and always has been radioactive. Life on this planet wouldn't even exist without radiation.
Yeah levels regulated by money not health risks.
All nuclear power plants release the same tritiated water. Japan has spent more money than any other nuclear power plant in this water release in the history of nuclear power.