2023-07-07 17:35:29
Slightly radioactive waters will gradually be released, much to the chagrin of local fishermen.
« Japan’s plans to discharge treated water stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea comply with IAEA safety standards. » In an ordinary context, the 140-page report delivered in Tokyo on Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after two years of analyzes by the best nuclear experts from eleven different countries should have reassured all the parties concerned. . Despite the presence of the agency’s managing director, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the educational work was not the easiest…
Since the triple disaster of Tohoku on March 11, 2011 (an earthquake followed by a tsunami that caused a nuclear accident), the operators of the gutted site of the Fukushima power plant have been working to make it harmless. In the middle of this pharaonic site, they installed nearly a thousand tanks which fill with runoff water which, once treated, retains tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
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