Japan has been given the okay by UN to dump radioactive waste water into the ocean, but nearby countries are protesting that its unsafe. Is it unsafe? Is it safe?
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The plan is for TEPCO to treat, filter, and dilute the wastewater from the Fukushima reactor in small amounts over the next 30 years, so that the actual amount of radiation released at a time is minimal and well below accepted safety standards. The *plan* is safe.
The problem is that TEPCO doesn’t have the best record of transparency, and some people are concerned that the water that actually gets released may not meet the standards set in the plan. There’s also China and NK being alarmist just for the sake of being provocative/difficult/causing trouble with a western-aligned nation.
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