Japan decided to discharge wastewater from the Fukushima plant to the ocean with many opposes, but the scientific gender said it was not dangerous.

After a 9th strong earthquake on March 11, 2011, three of the 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, in Fukushima, Japan, trouble with the cooling system, causing a part

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Because the reactor has been damaged, this water-cooled water source is contaminated and forced to be stored at the factory for many years.

Although most radioactive elements can be filtered with an advanced liquid processing system (ALPS), a hydrogen radioactive isotope named Tritium cannot be removed from waste water.

However, Luk Bing-Lam, Chairman of Hong Kong Nuclear Association, warning many other radioactive substances may still exist in wastewater at Fukushima factory, such as Caesium-137 and Strontium-90.

The protester holding the slogan "protects the ocean" outside the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on April 13, to oppose the decision to discharge the Fukushima factory to the sea.

Even so, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the ocean wastewater discharge is the most realistic option to restore Fukushima factory, a decade after a large earthquake and tsunami causing the kernel disaster in March

About 1.25 million tons of water stored at Fukushima factory since 2011, including water of factory cooling systems, rainwater and groundwater.

TEPCO wants to stop working from the Fukushima factory over the period from 2041 to 2051, but cannot pursue this plan if it is necessary to build waste water tanks.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan said another simple option is to wait for this number of wastewater evaporation.

As planned by the Japanese cabinet on April 13, TEPCO will start discharging waste water to the sea in the next two years.

Japan's decision immediately faced an intense opposition from neighboring countries.

"A Japanese official says that drinking this water is okay. Then you drink it. The ocean is not Japanese trash", the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman summoned Kien in the press conference in Beijing

In the internal meeting on the same day, South Korean President Moon Jae-In even called for government officials to find ways to sue Japan to the International Court on the Law of the Sea, to ask for the court to ban this move.

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"I was forced to say that Korea, as the nearest geological nation and had the same waters with Japan, very concerned about that decision," said Kang Min-seok spokesman for his words

Local politicians, local officials, fishermen and Korean environmentalists also protested in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, Japanese Consulate in Busan and on Jeju Island.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and treasure tanks have been processed from above on February 14.

Meanwhile, many fishermen in Japan are also unspoiled, because they have spent many years to restore customers' confidence in the safety of local seafood.

Japan Green Peace Organization accused the government of the country to submerge the Human Rights and Benefits of Fukushima, as well as the Asia-Pacific region.

However, the Japanese government argues the plan to discharge into the ocean safely, because the water has been treated to remove radioactive elements and will be diluted.

Most scientists agree that Tritium's presence in the country is not a big concern.

"Tritium can cause cancer, like other radioactive substances. However, Tritium concentrations in this source of wastewater are too low, so it is not possible to cause cancer in the long term. Biological semi-tritium cycle of Tritium

However, Luk said that other radioactive elements needed in Fukushima factory wastewater, because if domestic containing Caesium-137 and Strontium-90, influenced the human health would be greater.

Geraldine Thomas, Head of Molecular Pathology at the British Royal University and a radioactive expert, proved to agree with these ideas.

Thomas said the carbon-14 is not a danger, adding that people should worry about chemical pollutants in seawater such as mercury "more than anything from the Fukushima area".

"I will not hesitate to eat Fukushima seafood," she said.