Japan plans to flush Fukushima water 'containing radioactive material above permitted levels' into the ocean

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: October 17, 2018 at 6:39:44 AM GMT+9
> To: the Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: Japan plans to flush Fukushima water 'containing radioactive material above permitted levels' into the 
> ocean
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/japan-plans-flush-fukushima-water-containing-radioactive-material/
> EXCERPT:
> Water that the Japanese government is planning to release into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi 
> nuclear plant contains radioactive material well above legally permitted levels, according to the plant’s operator 
> and documents seen by The Telegraph.
>
> The government is running out of space to store contaminated water that has come into contact with fuel that escaped 
> from three nuclear reactors after the plant was destroyed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck 
> north-east Japan.
>
> Its plan to release the approximately 1.09 million tons of water currently stored in 900 tanks into the Pacific has 
> triggered a fierce backlash from local residents and environmental organisations, as well as groups in South Korea 
> and Taiwan fearful that radioactivity from the second-worst nuclear disaster in history might wash up on their shores.
>
> Tokyo Electric Power Co., (Tepco) which runs the plant, has until recently claimed that the only significant 
> contaminant in the water is safe levels of tritium, which can be found in small amounts in drinking water, but is 
> dangerous in large amounts.
>
> The government has promised that all other radioactive material is being reduced to “non-detect” levels by the 
> sophisticated Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) operated by the nuclear arm of Hitachi Ltd.
>
> Documents provided to The Telegraph by a source in the Japanese government suggest, however, that the ALPS has 
> consistently failed to eliminate a cocktail of other radioactive elements, including iodine, ruthenium, rhodium, 
> antimony, tellurium, cobalt and strontium...
>
> [...]
>
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