(CNN) – In two years, Japan will have to sell more than a million metric tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Gobierno said on March. This plan encounters opposition at the internal level and generates a “grave occupation” in ancient lands.
The decision to dump the residual water is more than a decade after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. It has been repeatedly used on security concerns and a strong opposition to local fishermen has been recruited .
Work to release water in the Pacific Ocean will begin shortly thereafter. It is hoped that the process will complete decades, according to the Japanese Governor.
Japan’s arguments for losing Fukushima’s water
Prime Minister Yoshihide also said that managing the water deal was “an inevitable theme” for the dismantling of the central nuclear power plant.
“We have decided to guarantee the security of most of the accepted state, and to ensure the best efforts of all the governor to prevent data and reputation, meaning that liberalization in the ocean is a realistic option,” he said.
In 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami affected the Fukushima plant’s energy ministry and energy systems. To avoid the fact that the three nuclear reactors are found to be grounded, they are burning water, which is contaminated with uranium combustion bars. When the water is filtered, the water is soaked and dunnaged and mixed with the subterranean water.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., built huge tanks at the site to reduce the accumulated water after its treatment. The tanks have a production capacity of 1.37 million metric tons and it is hoped that they will reach the finals next year, according to the company.
Water treated
In the midst of security concerns, the Japanese governor acknowledged that “the water supply in tanks is not worth talking about as it is.” The water will be treated in conjunction with a system that removes the mayor’s part of the radioactive material, except for the trio, an isotope of hydrogen which in some cases does not exist for humans.
“Before the time, the water in the tanks also dilutes the sufficient as for the concentration of thirty there is much less than (the admission in) the national regulatory standards of Japan, which are adjusted to the international standards”, said the official of the Prime Minister in a communiqué.
The trio only “emit débil radiation” and its impact on the salute is “very bad”, said the communicator. In addition, the official explained that nuclear reactor operators in all the world are freeing trit in the sea and the area of routine training.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan said in its website that the water contaminated only would be removed one day as chemical products were diluted to much lower levels than national and international standards.
‘No hay daño’ in descargar agua tratada, dice OIEA
In addition, the process will be monitored by third parties, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).
The OIEA’s director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, was a CNN que «no hay daño» en vertir agua tratada al mar.
“It is not as if it were the sea shining brightly with purple and green, and that all the species are dying, and that the Pacific Ocean is dying.” For supuesto que no », dijo Grossi.
“It is high (…) in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, in many parts of the world, and has no ambient adverse impact. I do not have any authorization or avalanche — if I can explain it in this way — from the OIEA to an operation that causes death or is not neutral from the point of view of ambience, ”he said.
The preoccupations of the ancient lands
Japan’s guarantees will not calm the deadlines of its neighbors, Korea of the South and China.
March, Korea of the South expressed its “grave concerns” ahead of Japan’s plan. It is said that this decision will “directly or indirectly affect the security of the Korean people and the ambient environment surrounding the future”.
“If the Japanese government decides to make water contaminated with the Fukushima nuclear energy plant without sufficient consultations, it will be difficult for us to accept it,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of External Relations of South Korea, Choi Young-sam, in a press window.
China has also expressed its “grave preoccupation”, and the plea to Japan that addresses the issue of residual water “in a responsible manner” in a statement from the Ministry of External Relations on March.
Japan decided to transfer the water “unilaterally”, denounced China. Dijo que is a decision “extremely irresponsible and will seriously aggravate public health and international security, and the vital interests of the people in the neighborhoods”.
While so, United States will show their support for the decision of its ally.
“In this unique and challenging situation, Japan has upheld its options and effects, has been transparent in its decision and has adopted an agreement in accordance with the standards of nuclear safety accepted at world level”, said the Department of State in a communicated.
Reporter for Selina Wang and Jake Kwon of CNN, Laicina of Beijing of CNN and Reuters.