S Korean experts to continue analysis on Fukushima water discharge

I hope that South Koreans won't approve this water to be released, however they are probably tempt by a lot of CASH IN THE ENVELOPE THAT CAN BE THEIRS if they say that the water pose no danger to anything.

If it pose no danger then please all the journalist and politicians who say so drink it on national TV.

The more Korean leader lean towards Japanese, just matter of time they will lost support from Korean people.

Since the IAEA is inspecting, the release is decided regardless of what the Koreans say. A previous South Korean test showed no impact, but the previous administration fired the person in charge.

We don't have time to deal with the national character of prioritizing national sentiment over scientific grounds.

In the first place, the treated water before release is diluted with seawater, so it is not drinking water.

Would you rather drink the contaminated water from the nuclear power plant in South Korea?

There are many nuclear power plants that have repeatedly broken down, but South Korea will never accept IAEA inspections.

Such an anti-Japanese double standard is the reason why South Korea is criticized.

What will happen if the Korean experts find the water unsuitable to be released into the ocean? Their findings will not change the plan to release the water. This whole thing is nothing more than political rhetoric.

Would you believe anything from anyone connected to the S. Korean government? Just think back to 2014 and I bet you answer NO.

Sounds as if they didn't find anything wrong, but do not have any authority to say so. So they will go back for a month, read the IAEA comprehensive report, and try to work out what to say, in consultation with various pressure groups. Perhaps they will then draw up a list of extra questions which they should have asked the first time around.

There’s no doubt that the Tepco failures in the Fukushima installation (facility design, backup electrical control and design, failure to account for the once in a hundred year event - not once in a thousand year event, etc.) contributed to this extraordinary disaster.

We have to deal with the present and not the past. Politics solves nothing. Only engineering and rational, scientific actions are important.

There are far greater problems than the release of low-level concentrations of tritium. Safe handling and clean up/containment of the corium and containment vessels is a nightmare come true. It’s a staggering reality never faced before.

@Larr Flint

I hope that South Koreans won't approve this water to be released

According to latest polls, 85% of Korea public oppose Fukushima radioactive water release.

Yes, they do know it will be "processed", but Koreans don't trust Japanese technology and it would have been an easier sell if Japan adopted Korea's nuclear desalination based processing that guarantees complete removal of all heavy radioactive elements from water.

@Lindsay

What will happen if the Korean experts find the water unsuitable to be released into the ocean?

Nobody knows. At this point, Yoon's goal appears to be holding 33.4% of parliament next year, not win the election which is impossible. 66.6% is the impeachment threshold and if the opposition crosses that figure, then Yoon's impeached and gone. The opposition currently has 62% of parliament.

Korea's nuclear desalination based processing that guarantees complete removal of all heavy radioactive elements from water.

OK, let’s see that.

Being an electrical engineer and having experience in many dangerous heavy chemical plants built with safety in mind, I was shocked after the 2011 nuclear disaster that was not the case with NPPs.

So many simple procedures would have avoided it. Waterproof reactor building. No major electrical control panels on the ground/1st-floor levels. Back up generators on the hill instead of at sea level. Construction of a lake nearby to provide emergency cooling water. Surround the entire plant with a wall.

No staff training for safety and emergencies for 25 years. 2 A4 page safety "manual" for emergencies.

Korea's nuclear desalination based processing that guarantees complete removal of all heavy radioactive elements from water.

For duck's sake, please look up what "nuclear desalination" means.

Fukushima radioactive contaminated water that directly touched meltdown debris contain over 200 kinds of radioactive matters possibly, but Japanese official and Tepco research 30 kinds only, nobody knows about over 100kinds, and Japan's government and Tepco think nothing about risk of bioconcentration in the sea, deliberation at the Diet revealed .

SK is a whole nation with the “I’m a victim” mentality (according to the news)

Just look at this well funded and professional victims event. Seems like the whole nation now is still suffering the same injustices their great grandparents suffered under Japans colonization.

@samit

Korea's nuclear desalination based processing that guarantees complete removal of all heavy radioactive elements from water.

As usual, I highly doubt anything you write without proof or links.

Korea's nuclear desalination based processing that guarantees complete removal of all heavy radioactive elements from water.

If South Korea has such convenient technology, why not use it at its own nuclear power plants?

If such technology is used in 月城 and 新古里, why should Koreans not be proud of it?

It shouldn't be a problem to be inspected by the IAEA.

They requested additional materials, such as protocols for a power outage and a long-term management plan for an advanced liquid processing system capable of removing radionuclides other than tritium in water.

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One would imagine that the Japanese side would already have the above in place, no?