What he says is about the radioactive water and treatment of Fukushima that Japan will have in the sea

The Japanese governor formalized this March in his decision to move to the Pacific Ocean more than a million tons of water treated with radioactive alloy of the devastated central nuclear power of Fukushima Daiichi. It is hoped that the operation, which will take decades, will begin in 2023.

Authorities and scientific experts ensure that this action is not risky for the health of the people or the medium, but different NGOs and local fishermen are strongly opposed to the project. China and Korea of ​​the South also manifested their descent.

What water is being treated?

A total of 1.25 million tons of contaminated water were dumped in more than 1,000 tanks near Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear power plant, in the north of Japan, devastated by a March 11 tsunami and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

The water comes from the lluvia, the subterraneans capable of being used to free the nuclei of the nuclear reactors that enter into fusion during the tsunami.

Before being disbursed, the water is treated with an Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS, by its English seal), for eliminate the majority of radioactive substances (radionuclides), but in the trio, which can not be quit with the currently available techniques.

The only trio is beautiful for the health in high doses, according to the experts. Disintegrates at 50% within 12 years (from one to two weeks in the human body) emitting beta radiation of low energy.

What does this election have to do with it?

Como the capacity to open in the lodge will be saturated in the second semester of 2022 hope to urgently take a decision on the “tritiada” water.

In the year 2020, a group of experts commissioned by the governing body to progressively develop in the ocean, descending here the alternative solution, which consists of an evaporation in the air.

The value of the new water treatment “is practiced in Japan and abroad” by operating centers and, for that matter, is “most factual”, we estimate these experts.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA) also considers that this “concord” solution with “assent” practices everywhere in the world.

The spokesman for the Japanese governing body, Katsunobu Kato, assured March that the dilution in the sea, which the OIEA would oversee, would reduce the level of thirty by debating the national standards and standards of the World Health Organization (OMS) for the water drinkable.

What is the point of the controversy?

Ecological organizations like Greenpeace afirman that the water of Fukushima contains other radioactive elements such as carbon 14, with the risk, according to them, to enter the food chain and give the DNA if the doses accumulate in a large space.

These companies are defining a viable alternative to increasing water filtration technology.

Japanese fishermen temen that perjury their image. “The governing body’s message that the water does not go down well with the public, this is the big problem”, according to a directive of the Fukushima Fishermen’s Union AFP hace one months. ‘Our commercial companies tell us that we will sell our products“If the product is produced and some consumers are born, it has been added. “Our efforts to restore the fishing industry during the last decade will be frustrating,” he said.

Since the 2011 catastrophe, all of Japan’s agricultural and aquaculture products, including fish, have been subject to very demanding sanitary inspections.

It is also applicable to radioactivity levels for the more severe than national levels of the Fukushima Department of Food, in order to supply consumers.

What do the scientists say?

For Michiaki Kai, expert on the risks of radiations at the University of Health of Oita (Suroeste of Japan), the key is to control the dilution and the volume of water tritada vertida al mar.

“There is a consensus among scientists on the issue that the impact on health (from a trio of sea water) is minuscule”, but “we can say that there is a serious concern, because it is controversial”, verklaar la AFP.

Geraldine Thomas, an expert on radio at the Imperial College de London, cries that the trio “does not present any danger to the health, especially because it has to be seen as it is diluted in the Pacific Ocean”.

The carbon 14 in the water of Fukushima tampoco is dañino, dice. The chemical contaminants in the oceans, like the mercury, must prey on consumers much more than “everything that comes from the central Fukushima”, he says.

(With information from AFP / by Kyoko Hasegawa)

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