Can the sea take Fukushima waste?

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2932, 2013, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Japan's beleaguered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility made headlines again last week, when it was reported that some 305 tons of radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank. This prompted Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority to upgrade the situation from 1 to 3--a "serious incident" on the 8-paint International Nuclear Event Scale. The crisis reopened questions about how to deal with the flood of radioactive water accumulating at Fukushima. There is a radical option: to filter out as much radioactive material as possible, dilute what is left, and dump it in the Pacific. This idea was put forward in April by a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after a visit to the site. But the Japanese government and local fishermen are opposed, fearing the waste would destroy their fisheries.