Japan set to release Fukushima plant water into sea,
Mainichi, TOKYO (Kyodo) 9 Apr 21, The Japanese government is poised to release treated radioactive water accumulated at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea despite opposition from fishermen, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
It will hold a meeting of related ministers as early as Tuesday to formally decide on the plan, a major development following over seven years of discussions on how to discharge the water used to cool down melted fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant………..
concerns remain among Japan’s fisheries industry and consumers as well as neighboring countries such as South Korea and China.
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Like the other nuclear powers, China wants to put a dirty great radioactive waste dump on indigenous land.
China’s $422m underground lab will probe massive national nuclear waste dump in remote Gansu, Global Construction Review,
9 April 2021 | By GCR Staff
China will spend $422m building an underground laboratory to find a way of storing high-level radioactive waste from the country’s growing fleet of nuclear power plants deep underground.
If successful, a repository that could store a hundred years worth of strontium-90, cesium-137 and plutonium-239 istopes will be built.
Building just the lab itself will be a feat. Wang Ju, vice-president of the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, told the
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