power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday , 12 years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station was knocked out by a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed around 18,000 people in March 2011, sending three of its reactors into meltdown. It has failed to reassure China, which said it would take"necessary measures to safeguard the marine environment, food safety and public health".
"Tritium has been released for decades with no evidential detrimental environmental or health effects," Dr Tony Hooker, a nuclear expert from the University of Adelaide, told AFP.This water will be released, if weather conditions allow, into the ocean off Japan's northeast coast at a maximum rate of 500,000 litres per day.
Japan's fisheries agency will take samples of bottom-dwelling flatfish at two designated sampling spots near the outlet of the water pipe.Japan"has opted for a false solution — decades of deliberate radioactive pollution of the marine environment — during a time when the world's oceans are already facing immense stress and pressures", Greenpeace said on Tuesday.
Mr James Brady from the Teneo risk consultancy said that, while China's safety concerns may be sincere, there was a distinct whiff of geopolitics and economic rivalry in its harsh reaction.
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