How Japan is dumping 1m tonnes of radioactive water in the ocean | It's Complicated 

The ocean is not Japan's backyard It's the home we share

If the water is so clean and even drinkable as Japan has claimed, then how about pouring this "clean" water to your water utility system and let your citizens drink it? BTW: Looks like most western countries are basically silent about this. If the same thing happens on China, how would Japan (and those western countries) react? Western countries accuse China of their "uncontroilled" rocket debris threating lives and damaging environment, but allow Japan to dump radioactive water to the ocean. Double standard!

if the water is safe, why they don't use it for concrete mixing and building homes and road in the country.

If it is safe as Japan insist, why you want to discharge the contaminated water to ocean. Japan must keep that contaminated water in your land and use it for agricultural/industrial use. Japan must not dump the contaminated water to the ocean.

Why Japanese isnt using that water to agricultural, industry and drinking. If they claim it is safe, then they should drink it and utilize in agricultural purpose for 10 years then let other countries know.

If other countries like China dumps the water, would Japan agree the water is safe?

An intriguing piece of data: The Japanese government allocated a PR budget of 70 billion yen for the discharge of radioactive water. The cost of releasing radioactive water into the ocean was 3.4 billion yen, while the cost of releasing steam amounted to 34.9 billion yen.🙃

Imagine China is doing what Japan gonna do, what will The US say.

The Japanese really know how to utilize their animation talent --even in the midst of a nuclear disaster.

Thank you Japan. Looking forward to the cancer cases growing all over the world. Radioactive fishes on the shelf for everyone to taste.

That's insane. Don't dump this terrible contaminated water into our ocean. The ocean is for the next generation!!!!

I guess the real, true test is, like what one commenter in a similar video recently, is for Japan to dump it in their own back yard, a lake, and see what it does to fresh water fish and the risks of consuming those fish.

Japan focuses more on saving cost instead of safeguarding marine environment and protecting people’s life and health. On the disposal of nuclear-contaminated water, there are options including long-term storage, hydrogen release, geosphere injection, underground burial, and vapor release. Japan has chosen the discharge plan with minimum cost among all options, shifting the risks of nuclear contamination to the rest of the world. The act of putting money ahead of people’s life and health is doomed to be opposed by the international community.

This is not an excuse .Radiation is deadly it is not a game to play with .They should find another way for fuel

Many people say that ordinary people pay attention to the nuclear sewage discharge into the sea is useless, but I want to say that if you do not pay attention to this matter, there is no way to solve it, even if our power is small, we should pay attention to it, this is a major event concerning the fate and security of all mankind, even if it is to understand its harm, even if it is to silently resist it, can not ignore this matter [angry]. (Forward it, as soon as possible, as much as possible!) ​

The water leaking from the reactor should only be recycled back thru the reactor's core, treated and re-treated , not released ! There is no purpose in using fresh water for cooling the reactor when there is an adequate supply of water already contaminated that can simply be re-cycled back thru the reactor. You DON'T DUMP the radioactive water from the PRIMARY COOLING LOOP of a reactor after it has been irradiated, so why dump this water when it can be cycled time and again thru the reactor !

If the treated water really is as clean as they claim even drinkable so to say, then what is the point of releasing into the ocean？ Just release it within the islands of Japan: wells, sewers, mountains, even give away to the citizens of Japan as free drinks！

This is definitely painful to see . The ocean is not yours, we share it. The ocean is the origin of lives 💔

It may seem a small amout but what about the cumulative effect of other plants releasing just a little bit. Plus all the other toxins dumped. How can an ocean cope with.

Some people are trying to mislead others by claiming that nuclear power plants around the world also discharge nuclear wastewater like Fukushima into the ocean. The fact is Fukushima nuclear wastewater is fundamentally different from normal plants. Normal nuclear power plants have three separate cooling systems that do not contact each other. The third cooling system cooled by seawater does not contact reactor materials at all! In contrast, the nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant was used to cool the melted reactor core, directly contacting the highly radioactive reactor materials. Such nuclear wastewater contains many other radioactive substances in addition to tritium.

dump their own land or lake

If it's so safe, people who supports this idea should use it as their drinking water.

If one big fish eat 10 small fish, the big fish would have 11 fish worth of radiation.

Why don't they keep reusing the same, contaminated water (after filtering it), instead of creating more and more?

Japan : lets share the love and spread it world wide!!

Let the PM of Japan drink first

I work with some of the highest activity tritium in the world. It's about 20-30 curies per kg. I'd love to know the activity of the water in those tanks???

The world can live without Japan, but it cannot live without oceans!

ここにいる奴ら分かったフリして何も分かってないの草

1. 为什么没地方存储了才排放？ 2. 如果无害，为什么不直接通过城市下水道过滤后给自己国民使用？

If it is so safe, Japanese people should use it as drinking water.

If Japan's think the nuclear contaminated water so safe for dumped into the sea, why not dumping into their own landscape instead.😢

Every American should remember of the 1100+ US nuclear tests ( many undertaken in the Pacific), were the equivalent to detonating the Horoshima bomb twice a day for months. The US reactors sold to Japan were also not fit for purpose, only having limited in vessel containment & basically surrounded by a warehouse with extra concrete under the reactor.

JAPAN has been great at telling all sorts of lies.

It’s known that the uranium rods are out of control and the melting core of the reactor gets down digging to the ground. The wastewater comes from the action of cooling the rods with massive radioactive things. The core of the reactor even emits radiation up to the point that a digital camera is broken down and uncontrollable. It is truly doubtful how can they filter a lot of radioactive elements from the seriously contaminated wastewater. If there is a person who knows the mechanism of action of ALPS, let me know. Every source says it is safe, but nobody knows how it is working exactly. Aside from the scientific background, if it is genuinely edible, why do they waste the water? They can drink, use for the factory, and it can be useable for rice farming which demands colossal amounts of water. Isn't water essential for the rice which is the staple of Japanese? Money for logistics of the water? Aren't they the 3rd richest country on earth? We know 迷惑 is the virtue of the modern Japanese. 迷惑 is only for the Japanese? Does it exclude the neighbouring countries? And what about the marine environment? Do you think it is okay for the creatures of the Pacific? Show trust! If it is drinkable, you drink it all!

War crimes and crimes against humanity, that is Japan’s legacy

Not even a peep or protest from Japan's allies USA Britain Australia etc etc, this must be what they call being like minded and so-called shared values at its finest. Hypocrisy..

The world can live without Japan, but the world cannot live without the sea

Keep it to yourself if it safe..use it for bath or cooking

How we can resolve the problem of the radioactive water? Japan: *_yes._*

Please save our sea...

Next thing you know Godzilla will appear

Do you still think Japan is an ally, democratic, polite, clean and friendly country

Since the nuclear sewage is so clean, the Japanese natives drank it, so why discharge it?

but why are they accumulating all that water in the first place? can'T they just continue to use it?

Im not saying it happens but i imagine everywhere with nuclear stuff discretely dumps nuclear waste all the time doubt it just disapears or is stored safely

If everyone agrees that 'diluted and drained the sea' is the solution to pollution/garbage, then Pandora's box has been opened! What else can't be discharged into the sea?

Everybody gangsta with radiation until Godzilla rises from Ocean.

La Hage and Sellafield had a pipe into the ocean and both emit more tritium as the water from fukushima.

You know, considering that people are also afraid of medical scans; perhaps it would have been better to say that one micro Sievert is equivalent to the radiation dose from eating 10 bananas.

Heard that Tokyo is lack of water, why don’t Japanese just transfer those so called purified water to Tokyo and drink it?

Oppose Japan's release of nuclear wastewater！

If the water is fine, why don't Japanese government reuse those water to the city water system why have to dump it in to the ocean? Japanese has less water. What a waste yea?

If the water isn't bad, just use water from Japan itself. Use it for drinking water, industrial water, and agricultural water.

The scientist in the video didn't explain the differences between radioactive exposure from a short-lived form like an X-ray and from consuming contaminated water or food. That latter is having a longer-lasting impact.

No more sushi

The birth of Kaiju(s) and Godzilla will start from here.

If its really that safe they should drink by themselves

It’s probably a issue with concentration. This radiation is fine spread out in the ocean as the volume of water makes it irrelevant once it’s out. Overhyped issue.

Love it how they don't talk about the millions of gallons of untreated water that has been continuously seeping into the ocean from under the damaged and flooded reactor cores. This is just a red herring.

Stop buying anything from Japan

I really like this video and the interviews. It is a issue of balancing dangers, and I think that starting release now and doing it super slowly to allow dilution to be effective is very important. Remember that if a disaster happens and all the water is released at once that would be SIGNIFICANTLY worse than a slow release over years

Japan say Ocean is belong to me . i dump it so what? After few year to flow to other side, it is none of my business.

Dumping nuke waste into the sea, This can be considered crime against the whole humanity and nature🤬

It is safe, but it is not used in Japan. It's safe, but I'll throw it straight into the sea

why no mention about the huge amount of caesium in the Japanese nuclear water that can not be removed by their water treatment methods

Japan: Hey it's not a big deal. Relax😂

It's like no one in the comment section actually listened to what the video explained

IAEA report: "Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of information contained in this report, neither the IAEA nor its Member States assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from its use." basically stating it's none of their biz if things go south

_"...Homeopaths from all over the world have raised concerns."_

if the nuclear waste water has no harm, why dont dump it to the Japan’s river or lake ?

Take the water and mix it with concrete a make more land for Japan just make sure to cover the concrete blocks with a layer of lead and ceramic.

If they say it’s so safe then why don’t they just keep it and not release it into the ocean and plus they never asked anyone for their opinion they just announced that they were doing it no matter what

So why isn't it in Japan's daily water supply？

The "expert" did not discuss the multiplication factor up the food chain which was not studied at all. Tritium get incorporated into the organic of algaes. These algaes get ineaten by small fish or crustaceans etc which are eaten by bigger fish etc. As it goes up the food chain the radioactivity multiplies. This effect, whether happened or not, can only be known in a few to ten years of study. cannonly be known

Please distribute the water to all major oceans like Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Antarctica, etc to ensure equitable distribution.

You can't make it safe

...so we're supposed to trust the same plant owners who literally said that radiation levels were low because they had used measuring devices that topped out at a far lower level than the actual radiation levels? The guys who were told early on of the risk of tsunami in causing this very problem, but went ahead anyway? The guys who supposedly can be bothered to filter out radioactive elements, but allowed radioactive water to seep into the ground water table for years? The guys who proposed freezing an underground water shield which i knew would never work and which never worked?? Now they're LITERALLY admitting they cant do anything else other than dump all the radioactive water into the ocean because they have no ideas left?

WHERE IS GRETA THUNBERG?

The Japanese official Weibo accounct posted a blog announcing that the treated nuclear waste water has minor effect to human body: 1/70K ~ 1/1M higher than a person annually have. So, if the treatment is truely this effective, then why not pouring it to the Japan water cycling system? And why the politicians refuse to drink it?

It’s official guys, Guardian is toeing the line?

If ur guys think 1’s radiation is not a great thing in water. But fish eating each other and radiation will accumulate in bio-chain

Why don't the Japanese drink nuclear wastewater？😅

If it's so safe, why don't they use it for their fields?

Okay, if it is safe to drink why the Japanese gov don’t let Japanese people drink it? Why release drinkable water to ocean?

You drink it . 🍺

Is not about magnitude or if other nuclear plant as well! It is about that why are we dumping trash into the ocean!

The United States-based National Association of Marine Laboratories-an organization with more than a hundred member labs in the U.S. or U.S. territories-released a statement opposing the wastewater release plan. It cited “a lack of adequate and accurate scientific data supporting Japan’s assertion of safety.” The discharges, the statement said, may threaten the “largest continuous body of water on the planet, containing the greatest biomass of organisms … including 70 percent of the world’s fisheries.”

Regarding Japanese seafood, Japanese cosmetics, and Japanese snacks and drinks will not be purchased again, it's not just the fear of radiation. It is also a silent rebellion. Japan should not be destroying nature and harming the health of people in other countries. 💔

Water is flowing, and in the end the whole world will be affected

Pretty soon, Godzilla will be born near Japan.

The ocean is not Japan's trash can!

If it’s safe why dump it in the ocean? Water the plants with it

I want every royal family of japen and japen politician to drink a cup of radioactive water before we dump it into the sea

US: we found cure for cancer! Japan: nice, we are safe to release nuclear water now.

I have to say, as a Chinese, I hope that United States could throw all the nuclear bomb to Japan in 1945.

Why don't they just evaporate the water?

I think Japanese officials take a sip of this water themselves and pour it into the ocean

"Biomagnification" refers to the process in which toxic or persistent chemicals gradually accumulate within the bodies of organisms in a food chain. These substances are often introduced into the environment from pollution sources, and as lower-level organisms are consumed by higher-level carnivores, the concentration of toxic substances increases. Despite tritium levels potentially meeting international standards in Japan's nuclear wastewater, there remains a potential risk of biomagnification, where toxic substances accumulate in higher-level organisms, potentially exceeding initial environmental concentrations and affecting humans, particularly at the top of the food chain.

Isn't the tritium needed in fusion research? They might want to sell it instead!