Fukushima power operator announces plans to contaminate Pacific Ocean with hundreds of tons of radioactive water
Takashi Kawamura, the chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, recently announced that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant would be dumping “777,000 tons of waste containing tritum”1 into the Pacific Ocean. (As you will remember, Fukushima suffered a triple core meltdown in 2011 after a terrible tsunami.) RELATED ARTICLE: Fukushima- And Its Lingering Effects On Fish WHAT? Yes, apparently there is a false but prevailing opinion that the waste isn’t dangerous. Something that is patently false. Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, has said that the radioactivity in tritium is so weak that it “won’t penetrate plastic...
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