Human errors and subterfuge risk amplifying disaster
Nuclear-contaminated wastewater is released from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean on Aug 24. Japan commenced its fourth release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, local media reported. Domestic opposition and distrust were rekindled after TEPCO admitted that on Feb 7 about 5.5 tons of water containing radioactive materials had leaked from the outlet of a device used to purify nuclear-contaminated water at the Fukushima plant, and the water may contain 22 billion becquerels of radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium. Such "human errors" have been reported at least twice since the discharge of the nuclear-contaminated water started in August last year and the discharge process will take at least 30 years. If the processed water TEPCO discharges into the ocean is so clean to be even "drinkable" and its environmental impacts can be ignored, as some Japanese politicians have claimed, why is the wastewater being discharged into the sea, where the ocean currents will disperse it far from the Japanese coast, rather than being used for agriculture or other purposes.
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