In what could prove to be a bad decision for sea life, Japan might release treated radioactive water waste from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, into the sea.?
The debate on how to dispose off the liquid have been going on for years. This included the water used to cool the power station hit by a tsunami in 2011.
Environmental and fishing groups have opposed this idea, and according to a report, the government has said that no final decision has yet been made.?
If the release of more than a million tonnes of water treated to reduce radioactivity does take place, it would start in 2022 at the earliest, according to local media.?
According to a Japanese media outlet, the Yomiuri Shimbun, the water inside the place would be diluted before its release, so that its 40 times less concentrated.?
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An official decision could emerge by the end of this month, said Kyodo news agency.
The urgency to dispose the liquid has been growing in the recent years as storage space runs out.?
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Reportedly, most of the radioactive isotopes have been removed using a complex filtration process but not tritium, so the water is still stored in tanks that will fill up by 2022.
For those unaware, in March 2011, a high magnitude earthquake caused a massive tsunami in Japan. The Fukushima nuclear plant could not survive the damage inflicted by the tsunami and tonnes of radioactive material was released from the plant, as a result.??
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