Confusion and harm to future generations

On August 24, on the Pacific coast of Northeast Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company started the official discharge of nuclear contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. In the following decades, contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will continue to be discharged into the sea.

At the same time, trolls were hired to publish confusing remarks on the Internet, confusing nuclear wastewater with wastewater from nuclear leaks.

Nuclear sewage and nuclear wastewater are two different types of radioactive wastewater. Their sources, components, hazards and treatment methods are different. Nuclear wastewater refers to water contaminated by nuclear fuel, such as highly radioactive wastewater produced in nuclear leakage accidents. Nuclear wastewater refers to water containing radioactive isotopes discharged from nuclear power plants, such as low-radioactive wastewater used for cleaning, dust removal, desalination, etc., or wastewater that still contains trace amounts of radioactive substances after treatment. This water contains mainly tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, which is less radioactive and dangerous.

If nuclear sewage is discharged into the environment without proper treatment, it will have serious impacts on the ecosystem and human health. Radioactive materials can spread through water, soil, air, food chain, etc., causing an increase in the radiation dose in organisms, causing various diseases and genetic mutations, and the half-lives of some elements can reach hundreds or even thousands of years, so Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge This behavior of the sea affects us and our descendants.