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[000:00:00;00] the i b to expand it to you? welcome to the the news aisha. i'm glad you can join us. south korea say is a japanese plan to release treated radioactive water from the full pushing my nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean is safe. it's a significant endorsement coming just days off of the international atomic energy agency or the i e, a green light of the same plans saying it would have negligible impact on the bottom. and that assessment followed a 2 year review by the year off the water release plan. the plan, as he to has been proposed and device is in conformity with the

agreed international standards. and its application can be that goldman decides to proceed with it would have negligible impact on the environment, meaning the water, fish and settlement. the government decides to proceed with the, the, i, you will be permanent, the kia, reviewing, monitoring, assessing these activities for tickets to come and visit that activities expected to take around another $3.00 to $4.00 decades. we're talking of more than 1300000 tons of radioactive. what are they going to be treated? died new type and then released into the ocean. it's very directive in the 1st place because it's being used to go down a nuclear plant. that's so meant stones after the deadly. so now i'm a struck in 2011. he has more of the damage control,

cut it out off of the accident at football she my diet, your nuclear power plant. once again, it's a race against time to prevent disaster in super shima radioactive waste water from the cripple nuclear plant is now stored on site in tanks. about 1000 of them, they're expected to reach capacity in 2024. japans government says the tainted water must be removed to prevent accidental leaks and to eventually de commission the power station. the plant operator tapco plants to dilute and then release the water through an undersea tunnel into the pacific ocean. about one kilometer offshore. its the solution to a disaster that struck 12 years ago, a massive earthquake and su nami destroyed the plants, nuclear cooling systems, causing re reactors to melts. to cool them. the plant now produces around

a $100000.00 leaders of waste water every day. once released into the ocean, the water will still be slightly radioactive, but plant officials say it will be deluded to levels safer than international standards. some scientists say the impact of low dose exposure remains unknown. others say the plan is safe, but call for outside monitoring. public concern over the release across the region remains high. japanese fishermen worry people will stop buying fish from the area under confronted government officials, a lot of stories 0 and i also need results for the release of the treated water is still a matter of life and death. if it does get released, we would like you to take full responsibility for the future. seems like, well, should i go to fix that and what the, what the south koreans have turned

out in protest and some have even started panic, buying sea salt and other sea food ahead of the release. china to has criticized depends plan to bump into china. japan to face up to the concerns of the international community and the people that home people dispose of a nuclear contaminated water in the science based safe and transparent matters and accept strict international supervision in japan says it has provided detailed and science backed explanations to its neighbors, if all final inspections go well, the water release is expected sometime this summer. but from the very start the plan has faced opposition and skepticism. here's an example of these are comments by to cube based green piece campaign not got to waste suzuki as reported in the south china morning post in march. this yeah, she said, and i quote,

the government has discounted the video and risk center and it's back on the clear evidence that sufficient storage capacity is available on the nuclear side as well as in. so don't think districts rather than using the best available technology to minimize reviews and hazards by starting and processing the water over the long time, they have opted for the cheapest option dumping the water into the pacific ocean. and gentlemen, off a more context is jim smith, environmental science professor at the university of portsmouth in the u. k. professor smith, is it safe to release radioactive water into the ocean? yes, it may sound strange to say that, but yes, in this case it is um, so this was so has been treated. so this is wastewater. that's come from the super machine sites and it's been circulating around the react is cooling them. it's also contaminated groundwater and in that there's that, well,

lots of radioactive elements, but most of those have been stripped out, so they have a treatment of system which takes out things like, sees human, strontium, which we might remember from the time of the genova also cuz she matched, and so it takes out those radionuclides, but what it comp separate from the way slow water is a thing called tricky and tricky. i took water so to teams, a form of hydrogen. and what happens is that the, that hodge and the normal hydrogen h 20, in water one gets replaced by a radioactive hydrogen. tricky and mother to because it's chemically identical to normal. ordinary walter, it's almost impossible and certainly this schedule impossible to separate from waste water. so that is what's going into the platinum to go into the pacific ocean where it comes to curriculum. it is not clear, is it around the impact that it has?

the long term impact in the ocean when it comes to marine and fish life. and after that, green b as in 2020, was talking about carbon 14 as well that has the cold potential to damage human d n a. i mean, obvious concerns on youngblood. yes. they are, yes um, i mean green piece has a have to do this and overlaps and for 30 years and green pieces got a history of misleading people about i believe about the risks of radiation in, in the environment. and so the big ticket to go to is this is important to say 2 things. one is that this happens all over the world at nuclear side, so all over the world. so for example, the hong site in friends, the minutes about $450.00 times more tricky. and h yeah, into the english channel. and then this focus, shoot him a release will admit into the pacific ocean at china and south korea. nuclear power

stations in about $33.00 times more than this release will be. so there's something that's been going on for decades and we haven't found any significant environmental problems. i've tried to you. if you have to release the radio new client into the ocean, then tricky them is probably the one that you would choose to release. because in this, paul tricky actually bought a dozen by accumulate. so some right, you're not new clients. for example, radioactive cesium. you'll get about 100 tons and membrane system about a 100 times more radioactivity in the fish than you within the water. but tricky him in the former, tricky i did was it doesn't by accumulate. so the, the fish activities will be very low. now the other thing about t t m, is that it's very weakly radioactive. so, um the, the, the, i'm, i'm the damage the radiation can do today. i am, truth team can damage dna, but it depends not only on how much is absorbed in the organism,

but by how energetic that rate directive emission is and team is really very weak. so you need a lot of it to to do damage to significant damage to dna. so for example, the so that the world helps organize that ation drinking lots of limits. a tryst team is 10000 barrels alita. and this radioactive release fukushima will be about 7 times lower to 1500 by 12 police or so in theory, you could take the war to that spinning, invented hudson, or convince people of that fish from the pacific ocean where some 1300000 tons. if i'm not wrong with radioactive water containing 50 m is going to be really used that fish is safe for consumption. well, yeah, of course there are other things in the, in the release and know everything. and for example, a great piece of talk about carbon 14. so the, what the japanese have done is that they've worked out that it was treated to such

an extent that the um, the other radionuclides apart from the tritium at 40 percent of the japanese limit for emission. and then after that it's diluted a 100 times. so that the waste water will be less than one percent of the emission limits. and it's really, really very low levels. and this will be check this of the international atomic energy agency at that are on the side that suit shame and say they going to stay for the to, you know, be checking the fish in the water and what's being released and so on as well. i'm guessing, independent organizations, anyone can go in and check the fish. but you know, under replant or comment from uh, cause the where it says location is a campaign or with greenpeace, and we've discuss a lot about green bass g as a campaign that was green piece in japan who is said that there is sufficient storage available for the radioactive water and instead of storing and processing

it and focus female over the long time, the cheaper option of reusing it into the ocean has been a chosen, i mean issued right of. busy better safer options of dealing with radioactive water or i don't think so and that's for um, for a number of, of reasons. so the, the, the, the storage and the time to include in theory go on that leads to other risk. so for example, if there's another quite cost anomaly, you could get a leak of attempts and that would be an uncontrolled at discharge into the, into the pacific, which would the concentration is a $100.00 times higher than what's going to be really based in a controlled mentor over the to yes, the other thing is that we have to be kind of tied might take about how we address in farming to rich. so i'm an environmental this and i really want clean piece of other organizations to be focusing on the more important issues of climate change.

and plastic pollution is the pacific sewage going into the pacific over fishing. these are the real impacts on the pacific ocean. and i think this concentration on the, on the 50 shipment wants to discharge is it's a distraction really we should be focusing on the main environmental problems. but we're leaving the timing. the thanks so much for all the complex prefer the transcript that does it for today. there's most of the region on our website for back again at the same time. on monday, we'll see you then to by the stopping climate change. that's what they're ringing for. several zones of the earth will become literally uninhabitable. today we're talking about

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