If nuclear waste water is treated in Japan this time, the harmful substance is tritium, which will emit two kinds of harmful rays. The first one is called external irradiation, which means it hurts where it shines. The other is called internal irradiation, which can be understood as an electron rushing directly into the human body and destroying cells. After the cells are destroyed, they will be abnormal and cause diseases, or even more serious.
Matters needing attention in Fukushima nuclear wastewater treatment
The treatment and disposal of Fukushima nuclear accident wastewater is not only a form of discharging into the sea. Japan has put forward five wastewater treatment schemes, including hydrogen release, stratum injection, underground burial, steam release and ocean discharge. However, it is extremely irresponsible for Japan to choose the ocean discharge scheme with the lowest economic cost, unilaterally make the decision to discharge the ocean, and shift the responsibility that should have been borne by itself to all mankind.
According to international conventions, such as the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, the responsibility should be the polluter. In addition, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea clearly requires that all activities and hazards caused by any country concerned should be ensured to be out of control.
The above content refers to People's Daily Online-Fukushima nuclear sewage discharged into the sea is to pass on the responsibility to all mankind.