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By Zhang Yangfei | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-20 07:45 Share CLOSE An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Feb 13, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. [Photo/Agencies]
China will need to strengthen monitoring of the ocean if Japan continues with its plan to dump wastewater with nuclear contamination into the Pacific Ocean despite widespread concerns and opposition at home and abroad, experts said.
Zhao Chengkun, executive deputy director of the expert committee of the China Nuclear Energy Association, said that at the moment, it is difficult to predict exactly how much impact Japan s plan to release contaminated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will bring to fisheries or the entire marine ecology, given the lack of full access to wastewater-related data.
By LI YANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-19 07:51 Share CLOSE An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Feb 13, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. [Photo/Agencies]
The volume of radioactive water that has been accumulated at the Fukushima nuclear power station since a meltdown after an earthquake-caused tsunami hit the nuclear power station in 2011 will be massive.
Japan can build more tanks to hold the water for a long time, or evaporate it into the air to minimize the environmental impacts, as the United States did with the nuclear-contaminated water produced at its Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a meltdown accident in 1979.
An aerial view shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Feb 13, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. [Photo/Agencies]
The decision by Japan to release into the sea over 1 million metric tons of contaminated water from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power station has come as a surprise to many people inside and outside the country.
Environmentalists have voiced concern that discharging the nuclear wastewater back into the sea poses serious danger to marine life. The water would be released over about 30 years, beginning in two years.
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