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Japan Launching Ecological War With U.S.
Japanese authorities have approved dumping nearly one million tons of treated radioactive waste water from its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean within the next few weeks. This action will endanger some of the world’s largest Pacific fisheries and the global ecology.
According to a report in British newspaper The Guardian, Fukushima wastewater is stored in over 1,000 tanks that officials say need to be removed Spring 2023 so the plant can be decommissioned, a process still expected to take 30 to 40 years.
The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011 was the world’s largest nuclear accident since the Soviet Union Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The Fukushima-Daiichi event released large quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The release of even treated radioactive waste water is controversial; even traces of tritium can lead to traces of cancer in human beings. According to scientists, the Pacific Ocean current will spread the flow of tritium from Japan’s own waters along the coasts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, and the western U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and California.
Tritium can wipe out coral beds, which will impact global fisheries and indigenous peoples throughout the Pacific. According to the Oxford Academic Journal of Radiation Research, in a study conducted by Japanese scientists…
