2023-10-06 19:41:24
A second release of reprocessed water containing tritium began on October 5 and is expected to last just over two weeks.
It is « safe »indicates to Figaro, Professor Jim Smith, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Portsmouth (Great Britain). He is one of three authors of an analysis published October 5 in the journal Science on the discharge of contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This process is expected to last around thirty years, and the first operations are closely monitored. The safety of the operations has been verified: thousands of cubic meters of radioactive water, containing large quantities of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, have already been dumped into the Pacific Ocean since the end of August. To reduce radioactivity well below the threshold limits authorized by regulations in Japan, each liter of water resulting from reprocessing is diluted approximately 740 times in “clean” seawater. Japan wants to reduce radioactivity below 1500 Bq/liter (or 1 becquerel is radioactive disintegration…
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