Japan fighting disinformation, psychological fears ahead of Fukushima water release on Aug 24

Radioactive water is a by-product that continues to accumulate at Fukushima Daiichi, which in 2011 witnessed one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.now 97 per cent full and containing over 1.34 million tonnes of waterTepco expects to release 31,200 tonnes of water by March 2024. Through an Advanced Liquid Processing System , the water will first be purified to remove all radioactive nuclides except tritium, which is radioactive but harmless in small doses.

This also makes Fukushima tritium levels far lower than the discharge from nuclear plants worldwide, including China’s, with the IAEA vouching “negligible radiological impact to people and the environment”. “Compared to technical experts, they tend to outweigh the risks of unfamiliar, involuntary and infrequent events.”Prof Heng, who studies existential risk, said that in Fukushima’s case, there was both a “dread risk” over fears of catastrophic impact and a visceral “yuck factor” that was seen in the negative associations for Singapore’s own NEWater - recycled from sewage wastewater - when it was first rolled out.

Japan’s solution is transparency. The Tepco website is chock-full of data, while the IAEA in July set up an office in Fukushima.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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