Expert analysis | Japan's persistent push to eliminate "nuclear" from entering the sea, causing harm to global governments | Emissions | Global
According to local media in Fukushima, Japan on June 9th, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that the onshore discharge facility for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant's contaminated water discharge project will be completed within this week and will begin trial operation from the 12th of this month.
The Japanese government repeatedly entangles with the term "nuclear contaminated water", claiming that the water to be discharged is purified through a "multi nuclide treatment system", and even equates Fukushima nuclear contaminated water with the water discharged from normal operation of global nuclear power plants. In this regard, experts say that the Japanese government's attempt to "whitewash" nuclear contaminated water into the sea will not succeed.
Special commentator Su Xiaohui: Despite opposition from multiple parties, the Japanese government is still pushing for the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In this process, the Japanese government is constantly "washing away", but it is obvious that it has not achieved the expected results. The Japanese government had previously requested its media and social groups not to use the term "nuclear contaminated water" anymore, but to use "nuclear wastewater" and "treated water". This move is to divert attention, as "nuclear wastewater" and "treated water" are discharged under standard conditions after the normal operation of nuclear power plants, while "nuclear contaminated water" is the product of a nuclear accident, basically equivalent to nuclear waste. According to the regulations of the United States and other relevant countries on the disposal of nuclear waste, nuclear waste cannot be discharged and can only be stored for a long time. The Japanese government's attempt to "whitewash" nuclear contaminated water into the sea is a rare achievement. The severity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident is equivalent to that of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. There is no international practice for discharging nuclear contaminated water into the sea, and the Japanese government cannot listen to domestic and foreign opposition. It is extremely selfish and irresponsible to go further and further on the wrong path.