#Fukushima nuclear plant will start to ditch 1 million tons of tritium-polluted water out into the sea.
> The decision comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved the discharge, saying that the radiological impact on people and the environment would be “negligible”.
Yea, right #IAEA. This is just as trustworthy as #Shell concluding that the burning of #FossilFuels has negligible effects on the earth's atmosphere.
Japans Premier wirbt um Verständnis für Kühlwasser-Entsorgung von Fukushima
Wegen Platzmangels will Japan das Kühlwasser der Atomanlage Fukushima stark verdünnt im Meer entsorgen. Premier Kishida besichtigte nun die Ruine. Morgen will er die Fischerverbände treffen, die gegen das Vorhaben protestieren.
China has banned seafood imports from Japan after the tsunami-wrecked #Fukushima nuclear plant began releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Japanese fisher groups had opposed the plan fearing damage to their livelihoods
Fukushima: IAEA hält Kühlwasser-Entsorgung für unbedenklich
Mehr als zwölf Jahre nach dem Atomunfall in Fukushima soll verstrahltes Kühlwasser nach einer Filterung im Meer entsorgt werden. Anders als Japans Nachbarstaaten bewertete die Internationale Atomenergieagentur dies nun als unproblematisch.
To put #Fukushima into context, the concentration of tritium in your drinking water is way more than in the water they're discharging into the ocean. The issue has been so politicised it's ridiculous.
Conversely, the Japanese government has not really done any meaningful consultations with its citizens hence the angst. See more context in this thread🧵: https://fedibird.com/
Japan-Skepsis in China: Die diffuse Angst vor dem Fukushima-Kühlwasser
Als unkalkulierbares Gesundheitsrisiko stuft China das Einleiten des Kühlwassers aus der Atomruine im japanischen Fukushima ein. Internationale Experten widersprechen. Doch in China dominiert das antijapanische Narrativ. Von Ruth Kirchner.
Japan beginnt Ableitung von Fukushima-Kühlwasser in Meer
Japan macht ernst und beginnt mit der Ableitung aufbereiteten Kühlwassers aus der Atomruine in Fukushima ins Meer. Bis zuletzt gab es internationale Kritik an dem Vorhaben. Doch die Regierung versichert, es gebe keinen Grund zur Besorgnis.
☢️ Zwölf Jahre nach dem Super-GAU in #Fukushima hat Japans Regierung ihre Ankündigung wahrgemacht: Seit Donnerstag wird aufbereitetes Kühlwasser aus der Atomruine im Meer entsorgt.
1,3 Mio. Tonnen Wasser müssen weg: Es wurde genutzt, um die Reaktoren zu kühlen. Das Kühlwasser ins Meer zu leiten, sei die beste Option, so Japans Regierung. Doch die Sorgen sind groß. China hat für japanische Fische ein Einfuhrverbot verhängt.
AKW Fukushima: Verklappung des Kühlwassers mit Tritium ab Donnerstag
Mehr als 12 Jahre ist es her, dass es im AKW Fukushima Daiichi zum Super-GAU kam. Nun sind die Kühlwasser-Tanks voll. Jetzt soll es ins Meer geleitet werden.
Tritium-Wasser aus Fukushima: IAEA hat keine Einwände gegen Einleitung ins Meer
Nach fast 2 Jahren Prüfung vor Ort hat eine spezielle Arbeitsgruppe ihren Abschlussbericht vorgelegt. Ergebnis: Tritium-Wasser darf ins Meer geleitet werden.
Tens of Thousands in Seoul: 'Stop the Dumping of Radioactive Wastewater'
'It is time for the international community to step in and call out this clear breach of the international law'
South Koreans have continued a weekend rally against Japan's dumping of #Fukushima nuclear plant's contaminated radioactive wastewater.
The protesters, including fishermen, activists and politicians, shouted slogans such as "Immediately stop the marine dumping of radioactive wastewater"
Entsorgung von Fukushima-Kühlwasser wohl ab August
Erst gestern hatte die IAEA die Entsorgung von Fukushima-Kühlwasser ins Meer für unbedenklich befunden. Nun will die japanische Regierung laut einem Bericht bereits im August Ernst machen. Fischer wollen das mit einer Petition verhindern.
Atomruine in Japan: Tepco lässt Fukushima-Kühlwasser ins Meer ab
Japan hat damit begonnen, das aufbereitete radioaktive Wasser aus dem zerstörten AKW Fukushima ins Meer zu leiten. Laut Betreiberkonzern Tepco wird die Verklappung wohl mehrere Jahrzehnte dauern - der Ärger bei Anrainerstaaten ist groß.
As the scale of the environmental and economic damage from #Dnipro dam destruction is not yet fully comprehended, I just wanted to make one note on social perception of risk.
For the last year everyone has been concerned about about the hypothetical threat of #nuclear power plant attacks in Zaporizhzhia NPP. It never happened thanks to mobilization of international community to execute pressure on Russian occupational forces that included numerous visits of IAEA, diplomats from the West and China etc and even installing a permanent IAEA monitoring mission in ZNPP.
At the same time, over one night #Russia has materialized actual threat of scale that may go well beyond any worst case scenario in ZNPP after it was shut down. Warnings about impact of a hydro dam failure were already voiced in 2022 after Russia has planted explosives on the dam in Novaya Khakovka and hinted it will be used as a weapon if necessary. But there were no Chinese diplomats coming to Moscow, no IEA monitoring mission on the dam and media forgot about it the next day.
Why? Because water seems to be a “natural” threat that everyone is familiar with. In case of #Fukushima it was the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that killed over 20’000 people but world’s attention is still focused on the nuclear plant disaster today where zero people were killed. Some environmental organisations intentionally distorted the tragedy by attributing all these deaths to the plant failure!
Is water any safer? Well, it’s not - if you’re killed by water, you’re dead in the same way as if you were hypothetically killed by gamma radiation. 1975 Banqiao dam disaster[^1] in #China killed 26,000 to 240,000 people, and rendered 12’000 km2 unusable for decades due to sediments and pollution. Since then, there’s a few dam failures[^2] globally almost each year - e.g. 2021 Rishiganga dam killed over 60 people. Last dam failures in USA were in 2020. Fujinuma dam failure in Japan in 2011 as result of the same Tōhoku earthquake killed 8 people, which is 8 more than Fukushima NPP disaster!
Yet hydro power is widely considered “clean and safe”, which is pretty much the same cognitive bias as legal qualification of gloves or boots used at a nuclear power plant as “nuclear waste”, while coal ash or natural gas mining tailings are not, even though they have much higher actual content of radioactive elements 🤷♂️ In terms of human deaths per amount of electricity, hydro power is 43x more deadly than nuclear,[^3] which is why it’s important to look at the actual data and science rather than yield to the socially accepted biases, where coal is “dirty but safe” and hydro power is “clean and safe”. You can’t talk over physics, which is why in countries that do this[^4] you can actually see more people being harmed,^5 and the fact they’re harmed by “natural” coal or water doesn’t make a slightest difference to them.
At Fukushima Daiichi, decommissioning the nuclear plant is far more challenging than water release
"But it’s just the beginning of the challenges ahead, such as the removal of the fatally radioactive melted fuel debris that remains in the three damaged reactors, a daunting task if ever accomplished.
Anyone #travel tips for what to visit in the prefectures north of #Tokyo? Looking at #Niigata and #Fukushima. Looking for some less obviously touristic sites, sights or activities. #Japan#VisitJapan
U.S. envoy to eat Fukushima fish in show of solidarity and safety (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Rahm Emanuel said he will meet with local residents to 'physically show support and then to express confidence in the process.'