This is the moment when Japan started releasing treated nuclear water from its Fukushima plant into the Pacific Ocean today: pic.twitter.com/h4NMt1uaDi
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New plans to dump waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean could create mutant animals, an expert has hinted.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) are set to start launching treated and diluted wastewater from the 2011 disaster into the Pacific today (Thursday, August 24) after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave them the all-clear earlier this week.
The decision has been a controversial one, with many concerned about the untold effects the wastewater could have on marine life – and on those of us who are partial to seafood.
Professor Timothy Mousseau has been researching the effects of the nuclear disaster for 12 years and said scientists couldn’t rule out worrying mutations in animals if the plans go ahead thanks to an under-researched radioactive chemical called tritium.
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/fukushima-radioactive-waste-dumped-ocean-30775683
China suspends all Japanese seafood imports amid Fukushima-1 discharge of treated radioactive water. [Tuna Fish]
BREAKING – China suspends all Japanese seafood imports amid Fukushima-1 discharge of treated radioactive water. [Tuna Fish] t.co/IK2P5OYJcd
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