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How is tritiated water a threat to fisheries?  Thanks.

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Christina MacPherson posted: " Radioactive water threatens Fukushima
fishery's fragile gains, Plant operator plans to dump contaminated
water into the ocean, Nikkei Asian Review, TAKUMI SASAKI, Nikkei staff
writer  November 04, 2018, TOKYO -- Since a catastrophic nuclear
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Fukushima’s fishing industry threatened by plans to dump radioactive water

by Christina MacPherson
Radioactive water threatens Fukushima fishery's fragile gains, Plant
operator plans to dump contaminated water into the ocean, Nikkei Asian
Review, TAKUMI SASAKI, Nikkei staff writer  November 04, 2018, TOKYO
-- Since a catastrophic nuclear accident seven years ago, Fukushima
fishermen have made painstaking efforts to rebuild their livelihood,
assiduously testing the radioactivity levels of their catches to
ensure safety. Now, rapidly accumulating wastewater from the crippled
power plant is again threatening this hard-won business recovery.

Faced with the prospect that there will be no more space to store
tanks containing radioactive water leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings and
the Japanese government are considering diluting the water and dumping
it into the ocean.

Even though Fukushima's fishery has been recovering, the haul
throughout the entire prefecture amounted to about 3,300 tons last
year, just 10% of the average prior to the 2011 disaster. And even
reaching there has not been easy.

Fish markets in the prefecture now house testing rooms filled with
equipment. Staff members mince seafood caught every morning to screen
for radioactivity. Such painstaking efforts gradually enabled
fishermen to return to the sea, with all fishing and farming
operations resuming in February this year.

But the trend could reverse if the government goes through with plans
to release nuclear wastewater into the sea.

Tepco has been cooling down the molten fuel cores by pumping water
into the ruined reactors. The tainted water is later taken out and
treated, but the system in place does not filter out tritium, a
radioactive hydrogen isotope.

The tritium-laced water is currently stored in tanks within the
premises of Fukushima Daiichi, but space is due to run out within five
years……..https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Radioactive-water-threatens-Fukushima-fishery-s-fragile-gains



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Christina MacPherson | November 5, 2018 at 6:05 am | Categories: Japan
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