Japan calls on China to approach Fukushima water release in 'scientific manner'

If that power plant being done in "scientific manner" there shouldn't be an accident in the first place, even placement of that location with that particular land height facing directly to pacific that has tsunami risk , anyone with non-scientific manner can tell there's something wrong with that plant design.

"Japan has identified China as the biggest strategic challenge and rendered China as a threat, which is seriously inconsistent with the reality of China-Japan relations," he said, adding that Beijing was open to maintaining contacts with Japan at all levels."

China is a threat to Japan by constantly intruding into Japan's territorial waters. It's not exactly the contact that Japan wants to have at any level!!

Looks like the United Nation watchdog got some treats.

So there are "international standards" on polluting the ocean. That's ridiculous.

What are safe levels of radiation?

Ingesting Tritium is NOT safe-period!

1 million tons of water year after year and they won't stop until all the Pacific Ocean is radioactive.

The core needs cooling like the one in Chernobyl so are they planning to cool it down and dump the water in to the ocean all that time?

A waste of time. China does not care about Science. It cares about politics.

Larr Flint

The core needs cooling like the one in Chernobyl so are they planning to cool it down and dump the water in to the ocean all that time?

There is no cooling of the corium in Chernobyl. It's just there, called the elephant's foot. No underground water and no runoff into the river.

kurisupisu

What are safe levels of radiation?

> Ingesting Tritium is NOT safe-period!

What about the 8,000 grams of Tritium already in the Pacific?

Scientists estimated the Pacific contains 8,000 grams of Tritium.

https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/10/5481/2013/bg-10-5481-2013.pdf

The largest deposit of Tritium is in the upper atmosphere.

China will stop buy your products too and this may be blow easy to feel.

so "TEPCO science" will come at very high costs.

question-what do you think will happen to food production not possible to export?

reply-soon to be found in japanese supermarkets.as people are beware of this situation many will stop buy these products in Japan as well incl us.

People will avoid seafood from Japan because of this. They'll see Japan and choose something else. You can't expect everyone in Asia let alone the world to be able to distinguish Miyagi from Miyazaki prefectures.

Should Miyazaki seafood in supermarkets have stickers that say, Not Miyagi. No Contamination?

Ok, allow Chinese scientists to test it.

What about the 8,000 grams of Tritium already in the Pacific?

your from England, did you eat fish from Normandy or Brittany? Hope not.

Not going to happen when the children can approach it in a political manner.

How much tritium will accumulate within the pipeline ?

Tritium is part of the water molecule, not a sediment.

Is the pipeline sunami resistant ?

Yes, the pipeline is surimi resistant.

The emergency shut off for the pipeline is because they know it within accumulate there ?

No. The emergency shutoff is in case the radioactivity concentration in the outgoing stream gets to high, mainly because the seawater inlet for the dilution could fail.

Rodney

   What about the 8,000 grams of Tritium already in the Pacific?

> your from England, did you eat fish from Normandy or Brittany? Hope not.

British people eat fish from the Irish Sea (Sellafield) and the English Channel (La Hague).

False

Tritium is a hydrogen isotope and replaces one or two hydrogen atoms in the water molecule. If you think that's false, prove the opposite.

Japan has been unable to even convince South Korea, a supposedly ally, to do it. There is no real chance it will convince China to stop making declarations that benefit them politically and economically just because they make no scientific sense.

Japan has been unable to even convince South Korea, a supposedly ally, to do it.

The South Koream government has officially endorsed the plans and even goes so far as to vouch for its safety. Which is of course a real windfall for its opposition parties, milking it for all its political worth. It's an honest mistake, though, they are posturing so dramatically and screaming so loud that you can be forgiven to think it's the government's standpoint.

So there are "international standards" on polluting the ocean. That's ridiculous.

Yes there are. Unless we are to ban any output of nuclear reactor remnants into the sea, which has not been the standard even under normal operation, there will be an "acceptable level" on polluting the ocean, especially when that level is less than the normal background variation between localities.

Nuclear radioactive wastes cannot be described as safe in any scientific manner.

If it's truly scientifically safe then Japan should use it for drinking and irrigation themselves.

If it's truly scientifically safe then Japan should use it for drinking and irrigation themselves.

Japan is not using drinking water to dilute the waste in the first place, the whole point is to reduce the costs, nobody drinks or irrigate crops with salt water.

Japan is not using drinking water to dilute the waste in the first place, the whole point is to reduce the costs, nobody drinks or irrigate crops with salt water.

I believe Japan is capable of utilizing the process of desalination and drink the scientifically safe water themselves.

The point is scientifically proven safe water is scarce nowadays and should not be wasted.

Cheers!