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is it really safe to release free to read director of water into the pacific ocean? [000:00:00;00] the embarrassment of you're 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 focus you, my nuclear power plant into the pacific ocean is safe. it's a significant endorsement coming just days off 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 it has been proposed and device is in conformity with the

agreed international standards and it's application can be the goal ment, decides to proceed with it would have negligible impact on the environment, meaning the water, fish and settlement state government decides to proceed with the, the i e, a will be permanent, the tia reviewing, monitoring, assessing these activities for tickets to come and visit data activities expected to take around another 3 to 4 decades. we're talking of more than 1300000 tons of radioactive water that could 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 cool down a nuclear plant. that's so meant stones after the deadly,

so now me struck in 2011. she has more of the damage control, cut it out off of the accident at focal she, my diet, your nuclear power plant. a once again, it's a race against time to prevent disaster and super fema radioactive waste water from the cripple nuclear plant is now stored on site in tanks. about $1000.00 of them. they're expected to reach capacity in 2024. depends government says the tainted water must be removed to prevent accidental leaks. and to eventually decommission 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. it's the solution to a disaster that struck 12 years ago, a massive earthquake and su nami destroyed the plants and nuclear cooling systems, causing re reactors to melts. to cool them,

the plant now produces around a 100000 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. other 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 on upstairs, the on house on it. don't worry about 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 the take them right. the

south koreans have turned out in protest and some have even started panic, buying sea, salt and other seafood 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 at 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. i took your best green piece campaign. not got to where 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 stream site and it's been circulating around the reactors,

cooling them. it's also contaminated groundwater. and in that as 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 to know, but also because she matched them. so it takes out those radionuclides. but what it comp separate from the way slow water is a thing called tritium trip to united water. so teams at form of hydrogen. and what happens is that the, the hodge and the normal hydrogen h 20, in water one gets replaced by a radioactive hydrogen, trixie and mother to. and because it's chemically identical to normal, ordinary water. it's almost impossible and certainly the schedule impossible to separate from waste water. so that is what's going into the platinum to go into the pacific ocean. when it comes to criteria,

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 candid yes they are. yes, um, i mean green piece has a have to do this and overlaps and for 30 years and green piece has got 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 sites 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. tritium, 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, or radioactive cesium. you'll get about 100 tons of membrane system about 100 times more radioactivity in the fish than you within the water. but tricky, and 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 tru team is that it's very weakly radioactive. so, um, the, the, the, i'm, the damage to radiation can do today. and am tricky and kind of 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. and for example, the so that the world helps organize that ation drinking lots of limits. a tritium is 10000 barrels alita and this radioactive released super shame 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, um yeah, of course there are other things in the, in the release and know everything. and for example, a great piece of talk about common 14. so the,

what the japanese have done is that they've worked out that, that was treated to such an extent that the um, the other radio nuclides apart from the tricky am i right, 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 their own site gets to shame and say they going to stay for the to yes. and they'll 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, on every plan or comment from a cause the where it says location as a campaign or with greenpeace, and we've discuss a lot about green bass, which is 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 cima. over the long time, the cheaper option of raising it into the ocean has been a chosen, i mean, issued right. other 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 in the tanks including 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 environmental risk. 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.

the 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 discharges it's a distraction really we should be focusing on the main environmental problems. but we're leaving it there for the time being. the thanks so much for all the complex, prefer the transcripts that's does it for today. there's most of the region on our website for back again at the same time on monday. so you then combine the always in very interested in the concept of recycling, su, am come, is a to listen, gonna to creep done in pieces inspired by the past, and is

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