Pending safety approval from Japanese regulators, the controversial plan to send treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean could be enacted next month.
, some scientists have expressed fears and uncertainty about the potential for long-termannounced its oppositionYet TEPCO maintains that releasing the wastewater is a necessity. The company has said it’s set to run out of storage space for the radioactive water early next year. Critics have suggested the plant operator could simply acquire more space and build more storage capacity.
the more water is held in storage and the longer it is kept, the higher the risk of large-scale leaks or spills—another earthquake or tsunami is a perennial concern. The International Atomic Energy Agency hasIn March 2011, a 9.0 earthquake—Japan’s strongest in recorded history—triggered a massive tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and decimated the cooling system at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on the country’s eastern coast.
To cool the ruined reactors and prevent an even more calamitous outcome, plant operators immediately began pumping seawater over the overheated fuel cores. That process continues, to this day. Ongoing cooling efforts produce an additional of contaminated wastewater every 24 hours. More than 1.25 million tons of radioactive water have already piled up. International consensus or not, all of that water has to go somewhere.
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