Japan to start Fukushima water release from around late August

It's all about permission from other countries leader, not ordinary people. Enjoy your last summer and last marine products before it being contaminated with those tainted water.

About time too... So much fuss about nothing.

Enjoy your last summer and last marine products before it being contaminated with those tainted water.

Please spend some of this summer learning about what is being released, its "danger" and how it compares with other pollutants released into the sea by Japan and other countries every day of the year.

how it compares with other pollutants released into the sea by Japan and other countries every day of the year.

Does it means if considered as less pollutants than it is fine just to release to water?

Thank you Japan,I remember about 30 years ago when the world was your oyster.What happened?

how many "about to release", "will release", "to release"s do I hear before they actually do it? Next "news", come on.

It would be a political suicide: international discomfort, bans, demonstrations, hateful speech.

All economies need to demonize an outer enemy to look good.

Japan will be the perfect target for their hate.

international discomfort, bans, demonstrations, hateful speech.

In other words: Monday.

Well, let's get it over with. The faster that water is released, the faster the less rational part of the world can start getting over it.

Well, let's get it over with. The faster that water is released, the faster the less rational part of the world can start getting over it.

Certainly, it doesn't mean that the whole world will line up to buy Japanese food or Japanese marine product.

Japan can show some countries which already lift the ban however those country aren't significant Japan food importer.

Finally we get a date. Hallelujah.

Imagine being so scientifically illiterate that you actually think this water being released is dangerous. Says a lot about the education system these days.

Thank you to the government for finally setting a date.

The lunatics and Japan-haters in HK, China and Korea will moan for political theatre. Ignore them all.

It would be a political suicide

It would be political and economic suicide not to follow through on the plans now. It would signal to China (and it's really just China and their satellite Hong Kong now -- that they can dictate Japanese policy on matters they themselves don't care about when they happen on their own soil, that they can bully Japan to "do as China says, not as China does".

If Japan pulls out now, what's stopping China from making their next demands, for example that Japan shut down its Sendai power plant because it puts out even more tritium waste water? What's stopping China from demanding Japan shut down all its nuclear power plants? And where does it stop after that? I'm generally not fond of the slippery slope argument, but this actually is a slippery slope.

The cost of the nuclear disaster is a bottomless pit. About ¥30 trillion to date which will increase above and beyond ¥100 trillion before it's over.

Excellent, and safe according to all the scientific papers I read. I am sort of a geek on science stuff. Sorry

Don't tell anyone the date, just open the taps and get on with it. I will still happily eat fish from the area. Again I will say..I have been watching the negative comments for months about this but as yet have not seen one of the haters give an alternate idea! You must understand they can not keep on storing water forever. The whole country would end up being covered in tanks! And I can imagine what you haters would start bleating at if there was another major earthquake and a couple of hundred tanks split and let the water cover the land instead. So either give an alternative idea or shut up!

I don't really see a problem with this. Although I believe many environmentalists have good intentions, their solutions to problems are usually not pragmatic, and they also frequently resort to NIMBY-tier behavior when it comes to issues such as this very one.

That being said, Japan has engaged in some of the most egregiously hypocritical virtue signaling on environmental issues in recent decades. Japan is still: butchering tons of whales; polluting the environment by consuming beyond unnecessary levels of plastic; not allowing for more green spaces in the capital thanks to horrendous zoning regulations; to name a few issues. Meanwhile they have the audacity to push the Kyoto Protocol and brainwash salarymen into all wearing those silly SDGs pins.

"NOOOOO OUR PRECIOUS OKINAWA CORAL REEFS!" they scream at their only reliable partner that can help them in the event a nearby neighboring country gets feisty.

Reap what you sow Nippon.

Japan's arrogant decision.

They deceive as if Fukushima radioactivity contaminated water contain no radioactivity except tritium despite containing Strontium or Cesium or Iodine or Plutonium, ignore bioconcentration risk, lying as if no option except dumping to ocean.

Kishida and his friends should plan a beach party for the end of August. Catch some fish, bang 'em on the grill maybe go for a bit of a paddle. Y'know just to help reassure the public.

NEVER TRUST TEPCO and it's allies in the government.

how many "about to release", "will release", "to release"s do I hear before they actually do it? Next "news", come on.

@tell_me_bout_it

Tell me about it.

Not a sea food fan, but every once in a while I grill a cut of Salmon in coconut oil and garlic. I just don't know how regular sea food eaters feel about this water and it's effect.

I'm glad that this is now (almost) happening, as Japan needs to move the decommissioning process along, and this forms an important part of that. There isn't unlimited storage space for the water, and it has lower Tritium levels than water released from other nuclear power plants, so the plan makes sense. Plus, the whole process is being monitored by the IAEA for those who don't trust TEPCO (which is a great many people).

China is complaining, but China complains about everything that's not written in Xi Jinping Thought. If they ban Japan's seafood for purely political reasons, so be it: there are plenty of other markets.

NEVER TRUST TEPCO and it's allies in the government.

Chisso also thought it was safe to release into Minamata Bay.

Treated radioactive water?

How is radioactive water treated so that it becomes non radioactive?

To be released in to the Pacific Ocean?

And not radioactivate all fish in the Pacific Ocean with radioactivity to radioactivate all people eating the radioactive fish?

And Mr Fumio Kishida, do you on behalf of all people in Japan, have utter confidence in the honeyed words of the International Atomic Commision ?

How is radioactive water treated so that it becomes non radioactive?

To be released in to the Pacific Ocean?

And not radioactivate all fish in the Pacific Ocean with radioactivity to radioactivate all people eating the radioactive fish?

Since you could have looked all of that up on one of the hundreds of websites explaining the subject matter, one must assume you are not actually interested in an answer.