Nuclear Physicist Explains - The Release of Fukushima Treated Radioactive Wastewater
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If this contaminated water is safe, why not discharged it into the lakes and rivers within Japan itself?
Then you do the same for the tritiated water your country releases.
@@man_hua_xi_you So you drink sea water?
@@man_hua_xi_you Must don't speak English? LOL, you just showed it is you that does not know English.
@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk i don't think he's asking you to drink the lake water. He's asking you why isn't it discharge to the local lakes in Japan instead if it's safe.
How confident are you with this ALP system? Is it going to be consistent for the next 30 years? What checks are going to be in place to make sure no short cuts are taken when treating the water? Any trusted and qualified 3rd party validations?
@@sunronboh1121 The testing clearly shows the safety of the water and all nuclear power plants in the world have always released the same tritiated water with nothing in history never harmed by such.
Tritium is not the concern here. The issue is that we have no reason to trust Tepco. The have been lying so many times. Who knows how clean of other radioactive elements the water really is. And that is the core problem of the nuclear industries. Trust is gone. Profit always beats safety and public health concerns.
Show where they are lying. The report clearly shows the analysis of the water. Four countries have tested the water.
@@manwan9370 And you deliberately did not mention the levels of other radioactive elements in the water. Tritium is the only one anywhere near of any action level.
@@manwan9370 Of course the water sample is from TEPCO, I would be intersted to hear where else you think you could get samples from.
I'm sure it's not just a case of "trust me bro it's safe" there is bound to be many levels of safety checks and tests routinely.
I'm a US Navy veteran and a nuclear qualified Electronics Technician (a nuke ET) and this was video is very fact accurate. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
What a fascinating MOS you had!
@@KidarWolf I'll say! I'm one of the few people who can say that they've been at the North Pole
I too served on submarines, I was STS3(SS), served 1999 to 2003. People have an irrational fear of nuclear power. 🙂
@@neutrino78xthank you for your service! I was on ssn-22
@@neutrino78x Interestingly, when I did take a US Navy ASVAB, that was the MOS the ASVAB pointed me toward, nuclear sub technician. I ended up not signing up with any of the US forces in the end, but the recommendation of nuclear sub tech for an MOS definitely did a lot to boost my self confidence.
Elina, I wish the media would get with people like you who have major in the subject matter, before they start spout out bad information.
One of the first 2 guests one media out had on was that nuclear bomb expert and the actor, gone green, Ed Begley Jr, who apparently has a PhD in nuclear physical.
They also posted the health effect of radiation exposure, use the effects of 1 Rad or more, nausea, vomiting, skin burns and of course death.
And we all know the exposure in the US was in milli rem.
The media are only interested in cash sales, advertising revenue and political gain. Though I agree with your comment wholeheartedly , I think we have little chance of educating the average person, they are too wrapped up in their own problems to question the bigger picture.
😂 They know they are spouting bs. Big money stoking fear of nuclear energy.
I think the media much prefers to scare people, not inform them. (sad)
I wish that they would as well, but they know that fearmongering gets more views than telling the truth.
Elina, just go and drink the water from the discharge station and you'll convince the rest of the people. I don't understand why such a simple move is not being used to convince others
did you eat trash to prove they are environment friendly?
No one drinks sea water, in terms of radioactive we have to trust experts as long as the measurements are correct.
Exactly, the moment she mentioned China, I knew she was bribed by the western world. I bet she won't even eat the seafood from Fukushima sea.🎉
Elina is just another armchair expert hiding far away in Sweden. Imagine if her home country is adjacent to Fukushima, then we will see her singing different tunes.
@noobasaurus11 Should stay away from banana and not fly to places anymore. You are definitely will absorb more radiation that way.
Hi Elina, could you explain more on how the ALPS work and how effectively it removes all radioactive element except for trillium. How this was monitored and by who? Thanks.
That will defeat the purpose of this video. 😉 You have to believe this ALPS system, which should be a prize winning system, can remove everything except trillium. Every other countries can use the same ALPS to cool nuclear reactors.
Excellent question. I too am curious and have had the same question. There were some extremely toxic and dangerous contaminates in that water. I, who have worked with nuclear material, have heard of no system capable of filtering all the contaminates the way Japan claims to have done. I continue to remain skeptical on that topic.
Tritium, not trillium
The corrective skeptic trainers are on the way. You will not ask. You may never ask. Your task is not to ask.
Monitored by people who are professionally trained to bow at perfect 90 degrees when they get caught!
The only people who genuinely need to be worried about this are homeopathists.
If the treated water were so safe, Japan could either discharge it into their municipal water system for consumption or use it for agricultural irrigation. This recycle would do the environment much good and win a Nobel Prize for such an innovation.
Then your country should also do as you suggested for the tritiated water your country releases.
You probably don't even understand the difference between " contaminated water" and " Waste water" . Nor does this self proclaimed nuclear physicist.@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
I think the issue here isn't so much as the tritium, but if the data supplied by Japan is true. The IAEA only receive these data from Japan, and even though the data states it is save, the IAEA still has a disclaimer that does not say if the treated waste is completely safe. There is still a difference between treated nuclear waste from an operational nuclear power plant and one that blew up.
Four countries were given samples and labs in two others were employed as well. The full report shows the sampling methodology, who observed it and where the samples were distributed.
@@ForbiddTV As China, Russia, other surrounding countries and green peace are against the releases of radioactive treated water, why not let them to go on spot to take samples? This will clarify a lot of myths.
How come you only bully Japan by assuming IAEA only received these data from Japan? What about other countries?
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
@@zzzz6511 Because the full report clearly shows ALPS is effective for all but the tritium.
Been trying to explain this to alarmists for months, they just refuse to listen because "you're a physicist, THEREFORE you're wrong".
The insanity is real.
Alarmist is a good word to describe these people. People who think they know the dangers of releasing “nuclear” water without reading up facts. People who love to come up with unsubstantiated claims and cause panic, and then blame the panic on the event. People who make TikTok because they think they are smarter than scientists and physicists.
@@bernardsoh3559 I studied mathematics and chemistry you trit twit and know kaka science when it's squeezed out. "We took out all the nasties" begs the question, where did you put that? Spread it on the road as asphalt? This woman should have to drink, bathe and bubble this every so slightly irradiated almost regular water if you dilute it in an planet's worth of water. "We can have a dozen more such accidents before you'd ever see a vestigial shark growing out a whales forehead."
There are a devil of a lot of my fellow-Democrats who are ignorant and arrogant enough to think that we can replace with recent or current solar-made resources, the very fossil solar stored energy that we desperately need to stop using. Note that the oxygen we breathe, which fossil fuel burning consumes, is equally a fossil resource.
Thorium and Uranium aren't fossil fuels. We could call them hyper-fossil, their origin is older than our Sun. They are also superstellar fuel, being the galactically scattered remains of events like supernovae.
The total drastic gravitational collapse of a star that can outshine its galaxy (for maybe a year) is enough to pack atomic nuclei together endothermically, which means that two nuclei make one that is more massive than the sum of the component two, the difference being stored energy.
One kg of plutonium in a suitable reactor, supplies about 8 million kWh (kilowatt.hours) of electrical energy, and produces one kg of fission products. At $0.10 per kWh, that's worth a lot more than one kg of gold.
本当にその通りだ
She didn't mention it, but tritium has a half life of about 12 and a half years. In nuclear medicine, we hold that a radionuclide is essentially gone in 5 half lives. So right now, there is still more than half of the original amount. After 50 years, it will be nearly unmeasurable. At the end of the 30 years, roughly 12% will be remaining.
What about other radioactive elements such as caesium etc, some of the elements have half life of 1000+ years. Can ALP remove them all? If so where does Japan get rid of the radioactive elements removed from the water? Dump them in the mountain or throw them to the ocean?
The radiation level inside the plant was very high as one of the CZcamsr visited it recently and detected it.
As reported by British media, a black rockfish, caught on 18 May, was found to have 18,000 becquerels per kilogram of caesium-137, surpassing the legal maximum level of 100 becquerels per kg.
The rockfish was caught in an area where rainwater from the regions around reactors one, two, and three, which experienced meltdowns during the March 2011 disaster, flows into the inner breakwater. The sediment in the inner breakwater's seabed has a caesium concentration of over 100,000 becquerels per kg.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
czcams.com/video/mWFLpSkOotk/video.htmlsi=1FzmLdo0ftK4-K7B
So what?
The amount of Tritium is absolutely miniscule, and it will be diluted even further.
I disagree that tritium is weak. Since it's hydrogen and small, it can easily travel everywhere in the body. Yes, it will be weak in 30 years and won't last a thousand years, like many other radioactive materials; but a lot of damage can be done in a generation or 2.
@@turkovich530
Well you can disagree all you like, but this is physics. In physics you deal with fact, not opinion.
Japan can choose to release the radioactive waste into their reservoirs and swimming pools instead of into the ocean. Whichever countries support the idea can also import these waters into their countries for consumption.
Then you should do the same for the tritiated water your country releases.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk u know which country I from?
@@chenkhoon Sure looks like India to me. India releases the same tritiated water, all nuclear power plants on the planet do.
@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk sorry I am not from India 😅
@@chenkhoon You still don't escape from the fact that your country pollutes more than Japan does.
I think one key point mentioned is that China’s radioactive wastewater is much more than Japan but is still much lower than the amount considered harmful.
In my view, there are fundamentally different water. The water that cycled to cool the power plan. And the water actually physically contact the nuclear rods to prevent from exploring.
so as u!
On the other hand, what is the benefit of releasing nuclear waste water to our ocean? Non. Just many risk that polluted water and food that will consume by your children.
She is a nuclear physicist. Yep. I’m completely sold. She has very nice dark color nails. Very expensive looking, too. I’m really impressed.
If the Fukushima waste water is safe because its radioactivity is very very low, why didn’t the Japanese utility company dump it into Japan’s river, lake, and under ground water supply?
All nuclear power plants do. Daiichi happens to be on the ocean.
The melt down nuclear plant's water has been contaminated with a lot of toxic radioactive substances not easily to be purified. Dumping the water to the ocean is the cheapest way to do and is the most dangerous. There are other alternative ways but expensive to do it, but the Japanese company and government chose to dump into the ocean.
@@ccmc919 ::: yep. If the Fukushima nuke waste water was safe, then the Japan government would have dumped it into the stream, rivers, ponds, groundwater, or Mt Fuji, instead of the Pacific ocean. With USA blessings the Japanese government elected to poison the Pacific Ocean, the fish, sea food supply, and the human race to save a few bucks.
Thank you for covering this subject!
One thing I understand about Fukushima is what I have seen with my own two eyes. Life on the west coast just isn't the same and in some places it's like someone took a steam cleaner to removed the muscles from the rocks. In 2017 I took my family to Monterey and my daughters came to me complaining that there was nothing to play with. So, I set out to find some wildlife with them and too my surprise there was practically nothing alive. No more hermit or rock crabs, and only green sea anemones. Then to top it off there was a blanket of seaweed covering practically the entire beach and no there was no storm that took place. Not even those things that eat the seaweed were in high numbers.
So, once I got home I did a little digging to figure out just what was going on. It was then I discovered that Japan was leaking about an Olympic size swimming pools amount of radioactive water into the ocean through the water table each and every day. Needless to say that was the last time I took my family to the ocean. To this day no one can actually enter into those planets as the radiation levels are just too high.
In some of my studies I learned from some of the ships that regularly travel through those waters that the ocean seemed lifeless and that the ocean was leaving some sort of yellow stain on their hulls.
Sadly the mainstream media has been covering these things up and even outright lying to the public as to avoid a panic. Now if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes then perhaps I'd believe the lies they tell but that's just not the case. The damage has really messed up things along the entire west side of America and Canada, plus some parts of Mexico.
The one thing that totally shocked me in all of this was to seen the scientist change the safety standards to much higher levels than ever seen before in an effort to again prevent a panic.
No one is going to read your book when you start out with such blatant rubbish. Show anything on the planet that has died or been injured by Fukushima radiation.
@h2opower Thank you for sharing your first-hand observation of the dearth of mussels on Monterey shore & sailors' observations. Can you share your sources of the sailor observation about "lifeless sea" and "yellow stain on the hull"?
I was hoping to hear your take on this, thank you.
Regarding ALPS, excessive amount of Cs-137 has been identified in a black rockfish caught near drainage outlet in May 2023. Cs-137 has a half-life of 30 yrs and biological half-life of ~2months (how long it remains in a organism), which means the fish is likely to had consumed sth. with high concentration of Cs-137, and it happened recently (to May 2023), before the 'official' release of wastewater. It is a real-world example showing biomagnification of radioactive isotopes. I hope more can be elaborated on how ALPS works and how reliable it is.
Your meme falls flat on its face when you look at the dates of your supposed report and when the water was actually started to be released. Oops...
This happened BEFORE the wastewater was released, and the release of wastewater, if not made it worse, at least didn't make it better. Hard to understand?
@@idlerfang Exactly, so how do you attribute your supposed evidence to the Fukushima water release? Fail.
@@idlerfang You also haven't read the reality of what your "report" actually says.
Thank you for the facts, the excellent explanation, and the perspective.
Hi Elina and fellow viewers. Hope you all have a great weekend. ✌👍❤
We should linger more on "most contaminants have been removed." We are trusting the IAEA to faithfully measure samples provided by the Japanese government, which was, in turn, given to them by a corporation fighting for survival. There is also immense pressure by industry on the IAEA and the Japanese government to say only tritium is left. Is there a third-party way to make sure only Tritium is left? Before the release
You could have read the report on the methodology of sampling before making such an incorrect statement.
Deleting your own comment, probably a wise decision based on what that second comment said.
@@ForbiddTV lol no just didn't wanted to go on comment war with random person :) Otherwise when I don't trust IAEA to measure and analyze faithfully or Japanese government/companies to release the contaminated water and samples when IAEA is sampling, there is nothing you say about their methodology that would change my mind. Since it can be corrupted. Long story short, I need third party sampling, and testing preferably from other countries who live next to them 👋 you didnt even understood my first comment
@@danielm3711 More nonsense from you. Four countries had the water tested in labs in six countries, so no one knows W T F you are talking about with "third party testing". The results of the tests would have been no different if Alex Jones turned the valve for you.
This CZcamsr is the kind of those so called "scientists" that has been telling the world for the deep state that there's no global warming or the Monsanto GMO stuff were "safe." The fact she kept single out about China with this or that already showed you who she got paid for US 5 eyes led disinformation. China ain't the only country that has taken action & ban Japanese seafood products but also Russia & most countries within ASEAN & Asia. Even US has been limiting Japanese seafood products. She also failed to tell you Japan hasn't done much in cleaning those contaminated areas and has already calling Japanese to move back to those dead zones & some already did. There are a few journalists has already done investigative journalism & documentary covering the Fukushima areas showing high radioactive still present on most parts and some even went 20-30 times above the international health warning standard. Take for example they build a kindergarten in one of the effected areas, while the whole kindergarten & right outside the gate, the radiation level was safe, but if one just go 10-20 metres away from the premises. High radiation level again has risen to very unsafe level & it's worse when measuring the soil that Japan has never cleaned up. There has been a local Japanese group with members of 20-30 for the last 10 years measuring all the highly radioactive zones that the Japan government said was safe when their foundings showed the opposite.
They really missed a great marketing opportunity by not bottling the water and selling it in stores worldwide.. They could've sold it under the name "Fuku" inspired by Fiji water! 😂
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If Japan's release of treated water into the environment is considered a problem, it's worth noting that other countries have engaged in more significant environmentally damaging practices. The situation often revolves around political motivations, as someone typically seeks to gain an advantage. 5:29 says it all.
There will be billions and billions of cubic metres of radioactive water when that tritiated water gets mixed into the oceans. Any given gallon of it will hardly be detectable. It is rubbish to write of the number of gallons of diluted radioactive water. By far the biggest threat to the Pacific ocean from the loss of three reactors, isn't radiation at all. It comes from the replacement fossil fuel power's chemistry of carbonic acid gas, the older name for carbon dioxide. Seashells, chalk, limestone, and marble are calcium carbonate. Twice as much CO₂ turns it into bicarbonate, and it dissolves. Oceanic life, including corals, cannot survive if the alkalinity drops to pH=8.0, which is merely slightly alkaline. It used to be 8.2, and has dropped to pH=8.1 on the average.
Thanks for the very informative video! Greatly appreciate the perspective which does put our minds at ease! Cheers!
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
@@zzzz6511 The full report clearly shows ALPS is effective against strontium 90 and iodine-129.
Thanks for providing a well-grounded perspective. It was a hoot to me when China, of all countries, announced it was boycotting Japanese fish due to concerns over radiation; notwithstanding China's much higher discharge into the ocean of the same nuclear waste.
Yep, in China, the tritium content of Qinshan No. 3 nuclear power plant has about 143 trillion becquerels, 6.5 times the amount Fukushima plans to emit, the Yangjiang nuclear power plant has five times the amount, and the Red River nuclear power plant has four times the amount.
There is a video on the CZcams channel named China observer about 11 days ago titled "China's Chernobyl incident"
@@madmax2069 IIRC, that wasn't over water discharge but irradiated coal. Allegedly (Note, this one is going to be really hard to prove) the open-pit mining in Coal inside Inner Mongolia had dug too fast, so they breached veins of uranium and mixed trace portions through the coal. Since the coal is burnt as power plant fuel, the shipped coal ended up in an ash cloud that spread across parts of China.
Only stupid and fools go to watch"Chinese Observal". That is an Anti Chinese channel. Why no go to independent media?
@@AlphaAurora Oh my, that is a pretty awful series of events, if true.
If the water is harmless, why don't Japan turn the water into drinking water or use it to water their plants?
Then your country should also turn your tritiated water into drinking water. Yours will be easier since it doesn't have sea water in it.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
My country has no nuke waste or radioactive water. You should keep them for your own consumption instead of dumping to destroy the Pacific Ocean.
@@TheKkpop1 Then you are burning coal and other fossil fuels which kill multitudes more than nuclear does. And by the way, your coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste. Please keep it in your own country from now on instead of distributing it on land and oceans around the planet.
Again... Becuz its salted water ? U can't use it to water plants ? And desalination costs alot of money ?
Japanese said the water they are releasing is drinkable. There is no any other country say that stupid words.@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk
Very good presentation that covers all important aspects of the issue. Thanks.
1 How can the power plant make sure that tritium is the only radioactive element in the water?
2 Why don't they reuse the water as the purpose is only for cooling?
I would be interested in a dissertation of neuclidtides released into the atmosphere / tailings dumps from the burning of coal. Coal is not inherently carrying radio active traces but has it impinged on it from the surrounding sediments. Any way I have no expertise and would apreciate an opinion.
The radioactivity from both thorium and uranium that came from the original coal, in a one gigawatt(GW) output coal burner, far exceeds what is permitted from a one GW nuclear plant. It is also the least damaging of the coal burner's emissions.
Hi Elina. Can you make a video that explain how "dangerous" a SMR are compare to a big powerplant? Thank for some really great content.
In a simple words *_any of us "can dump our nuke waste to the ocean" under the supervision of technician that "we hired for"..._*
LoL.
0:44 Correct me if i am wrong. The reactor vessels themselves did not explode but the reactor building exploded due to the hydrogen gas buildup. This is an important distinction.
Correct, secondary containment exploded, not primary containment.
Having gone to Japan for a year right after the Fukushima incident, I've always kept an eye on the news about it and when the news hit about them releasing the wastewater I already knew that media outlets were going to sensationalize it. I'm glad that someone like you sheds a light on the facts of the matter so I can share your video to people who might otherwise panic and spread more misinformation. Thank you for all your great work!
Media is controlling by political activists who really don’t want clean energy. They need the bogeyman of dirty fossil energy. Nuclear power has the potential to solve our energies problems. Therefore it has to be stopped. What’s better than hyper-regulation and fake safety panics.
What fact of the matter ? The fact is we have no idea if we can trust everything that they are saying in terms of concentrate of radio active materials. Second of all, it is absolutely possible higher concentration of radio active materials can be consumed by near sea creatures. Let' say it is safe as that they say it is. Safe enough to drink it. Why don't they use it as drinking water or agricultural water instead of dumping it in the ocean?
@@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi They are not DUMPING IT. They will be gradually releasing it over 30 YEARS! Come on.... even if they were dumping high level nuclear waste, if they dilute it to that degree, it would probably be about the same as the rest of the ocean. The whole point is FIRST they filtered and treated the water. SECOND, they are releasing it very SLOOOOOOWWWWLLLYYY. When it is diluted to that degree, it is mixed with so much plain seawater that you would not even be able to detect the difference with a mass spectrometer, which is one of the ways you CAN detect Tritium.
So if you don't trust people that know their subject, what are you going to do? Leave the water in the tank for your grandchildren to deal with? Since you are obviously not an expert on the subject, and you don't seem to trust anyone's statement about it, what exactly do you suggest?
@@user-fx5sw4jy7hYz9Hzi It must be a sad existence to be so uber-paranoid and devoid of any scientific knowledge...not all radiation is the same, ask the Radium Girls. She explained away every "concern" you had. And, if I understand your word salad, no one said anything about drinking it.🙄
@@edmer68 Then use it as domestic consumption water. Period. Do it with your action and not at the expense of other countries.
Since ALPS is so effective, the treated water is well positioned to irrigation, onsen, daily drinking water needs in Japan and as well in the US military bases across Japan, and for sure, ALPS is ready for a Nobel prize nomination in Physics. Storage of these treated water is never a problem as there are enough reservoirs in Japan. Japan has decades of time ahead to prove to the world they are right.
Then you do the same for the tritiated water your country releases.
Thank you, Elina, you made that Very clear.
The irony is that the general public think that radiative stuff glows green or yellow. We need to release tritium, but the media is very quick to tell people we use Tritium to light up signs. They don't even explain it's not the tritium glowing but phosphor.
Dear Elina, just recently the Singapore government tested and found unsafe level of radiation in four types of fish imported from Japan and had since then banned all seafood from Japan. Can you explain how and why this happened?
Where’s the news? Can you paste a link and source? I’m interested in the topic however I couldn’t find the news you mention. The latest article on stance of Singapore government is they found no contamination and will not ban. Pls provide link
@@herbertng522 It was reported in the MediaCorp/CNA news on television last month or so. Go check it out yourself.
@@user-qo9wb2ph9u No verification for your meme is available? How convenient for fear mongering.
As a physicist, I am very glad to see people as you explaining for people in general this subject! Thanks a lot!
As a physicist, do you not believed in the science? Explain the technology behind ALPS and how it works to remove it. As a Physicist do you not have a responsibility to make sure that your explanation is truly backed by science and not just believed this ALPS is a wonder invention told to you by the PR of Japan? Have any science community been given a chance to verify the claim by the PR of Japan?? Have any IP been registered on this wonderful ALPS invention? As a physicist, you should know any wild claim need a really good explanation to back up the claim. This ALPS could easy get his inventor a noble prize. That how good this invention really is, if it real. The only problem no one in the science community know exactly how it works. As a physicist, would you called that verified and approve it to be used as a golden benchmark for release nuclear waste water into the ocean?
I rather not be so trusting of youtubers claiming to be a nuclear physicist.
@@madsam0320 Just block this channel, it's one of the "Sponsored" for brainwashing peeps minds.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated (can't be treated)and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium. Disgusting .
@@madsam0320why? trust me bro?
Interesting topic, I can remember being raised in the UK media around twenty years ago I think,
We were certainly aware of what was perceived as normal background radiation, but the comparative wasn’t really explained, more so the emphasis was labelled on what the impact was on the surrounding area, with no anecdotal explanation.
On a slightly different approach, I’d still be interested in a breakdown on recycling nuclear waste and whether that process can be achieved with similar results with an accelerated disposition on decay.
Excellent video. Thank you very much!
I'm also a physicist and I'm so happy to see one of us publicly bringing some rationality to this issue/world. We need more of you. I'm working on my contribution as well. You're great.Peace! :-)
Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme ~ Rabelais
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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hello thank you again for the amazing video content keep it coming🙏🙏,and thats a cool shirts haha id buy one
i love how at 8:06 the article talks about china banning seafood from japan but then shows korean protestors
Both those countries are guilty of starting this propaganda madness.
Good point about the elements and types of radiation. This is something that the public really doesn't understand. Maybe do something about getting to know radiation in general and the different isotopes and reactions that create it.
Can you explan more about the ALPS process of cleaning the water? How reliable is it that it leaves only tririum and all the other radiation are removed.
It's a chemical process that captures the other elements through sediment settling or reacting with various chemicals. The material is then disposed of as other Nuclear waste is. The ALPS process is explained in detail by the companies that are doing it.
@@GeoffreyFeldmanMA "trust company"!
When I first learned Japan would do this I figured that done over 30 years it really wouldn't have any noticeable or measurable impact. That was my intuitive feeling; now you have confirmed it, thank you.
One person peeing into the public swimming pool doesn't actually have that much effect. There is a lot of water in that pool. The average human pees out only a very small amount. Your bladder is only so big. I'm reasonably sure that if the water was clean to start with, and you added that amount of pee, it would STILL be reasonably safe to drink the water.
Now imagine that the manager appointed by the town council to run the swimming pool consulted a doctor at a local university who gave him that report. The next day, our manager puts up a sign at the pool. with a photocopy of the scientific report pasted next to it. FROM TODAY, EVERYBODY CAN PEE INTO THE POOL.
Really? Some people jump in and pee, and hope nobody sees them. Others just stand beside the pool and pee into it.
One already decommissioned plant from Japan is going to dump less radioactive waste water into the ocean than 55 active operating plants in China? Yeah. I'm not surprised. Instead of comparing with China, why not compare with Japan's other nuclear power plants? Yes, the discharge from Fukushima would be below the level of that from other nuclear power plants in Japan that are still operating.
So, we needn't worry? NO !!!! Everybody must stop dumping s***** into the ocean. Or it's going to end up like that swimming pool full of pee.
@@danielch6662 I understand your comparison but I do not think it is applicable. The ocean is vastly larger and is far more complex as compared to a swimming pool. From my own personal measuring (a little ridiculous, I know), I pee at an approximate average of 500ml per time I pee, in an Olympic sized swimming pool this is 0.00002%. There are 7.02 * 10^20 L of water in the Pacific Ocean, the rate of release is 500,000L per day which represents 0.00000000000007123%. If you add all 10,000,000L that Japan is putting in over 30 years, that still represents only 0.0000000000014245% of the Ocean.
Please do educate yourself and not believed everything that is on the internet. This video is misleading and only explain the science on one type of nuclear material but fail big time explaining the technology that is used to cleaned the wasted water. The facts is no body know how the ALPS works, only the basic explanation from the PR of japan. There are 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. only tritium is looked at and recorded. Even then, Japan won't let third party to verify the record. Tritium have a half life of 12 years and also occur naturally, that why other nation also able to release it in the ocean. However in Japan case the waste water is mix with the fuel due to the reactor had cracked from the partial melt down. The other material have a half life of thousand of years and some are in the million of years, they are very dangerous radioactive material that is normally stored deep under ground in very strong container. Nuclear waste water management have always been a problem for the science community and no technology can 100% removing all the dangerous material from the waste water. Japan is telling the world their technology can, but won't let independent third party to go in to take sample to verify their claim.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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Great video, I wish it was mainstream on the TV news channels for people to have some sort of understanding I would love you to do a video on Sellafield’s open air spent fuel pools
Great video, thanks :)
Facts are powerful things. Keep them coming!
Well done! We need more of your take on this. Please keep it up!
Thanks for the information, Elina.
Thank you, I am very grateful for your report.
Thank you Elina, very well done. We're all in far greater danger from our diets and our driving habits.
Ironically, the country that's bitching about the safety of Japanese treated nuke plant waters being released into the ocean are in dire danger of dying from food poisoning/cancer (recycled motor oil into cooking oil) and car accidents (have you seen the way they drive over there?) than any other country in the world 🌎 😂
Thank you. I am a retired chemist. Most news neither clarifies nor quantifies. You have concisely explained the situation. Thanks again.
We should measure exposure levels in "bananas". Maybe that would give people a better idea of radiation effects.
Great awareness video, thanks for sharing information on ALPS.
I learned two things 'Tritium and Sievert'.
I have couple of things in mind
1. Whether radioactive material will possible to exposed during the condensation process through the cooling tower.
2. Whether you seen uranium residue after it's use and if so, how they appear and accumulate.
Both of these questions where awnsered in the video.
@@mr-x7689 since the water released in the cooling towers is on a second loop and never come close to the fuel, I'm a bit puzzled by what is said in that video, more explanations on that would have been welcomed.
Or maybe she was talking about the water in the primary loop, which is most likely replaced periodically ?
I know contaminated water is stored on some production sites (there was a breach in France some years ago, when some tanks were leaking and the retention area supposed to catch it was ... also leaking, into the river😐).
But I don't know what they're usually supposed to do with it, maybe it's treated and eventually diluted into the ocean as well.
@@pbe6965 Some of this is water that was used during cleanup of the accident and stuff, they collected and processed everything they could to not allow contaminated water to end up soaking into the ground soil, remember they took off the top soil and decontaminated that and then mixed it with fresh soil to dilute the radioactivity there and remove the really harmful isotopes.
@@EwanMarshall I was talking about the affirmation in the video that other reactors (not Fukushima's), which didn't blow up, still release tritium in their cooling water during normal operation, which ends up diluted in the river or the see near the power plant where the excess water from the cooling tower is dumped back.
Implying that dumping Fukushima's processed water is not worse than what every reactor in the world is already doing on a daily basis.
She probably knows her stuff way better than me and right where I'm wrong.
But I'm still short of an explanation as to how this water is contaminated when it doesn't get in contact with the fuel 🙂 as opposed to Fukushima's which was dumped directly into the open reactor with exposed fuel.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
Fantastic video. It really helped explain the reality of the release, putting it in context to wider / normal exposures. I haven't seen anything online or on TV that hadn't been negative and suggesting the seas of Japan will soon turn into Springfield Lake. Thank you for you work.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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Absolutely untrue nonsense.
Both Strontium-90 and Iodine-129 is removed from that water. Carbon-14 levels are far below what is allowed for general discharge, and the same goes for the levels of Tritium. That water is probably some of the cleanest waste water you will ever see.
Can you compare the amount of tritium in the water to that in a glow in the dark pendant? When you mentioned it my first thought was that the same substance is used to make compasses used by US Army glow.
How many micro grams in the pendant? How many gigatons in the ocean. There will be ZERO glow in the water. What you are seeing is Tritium gas, not tritiated water which does not glow. There is your answer. It is used in watches and compasses even sold in the civilian market, There is no detectable ionizing radiation from this. The only radiation is light. The reason is that the neutrons escaping from the tiny capsule of tritium does not even pass through the glass its in.
@@GeoffreyFeldmanMA tritium decay by beta decay, which is an electron, not a neutron, and the light comes from phosphor getting excited by the tritium giving off electrons. aside of that everything else you said was correct.
Thank you for the clear eplanations :)
Thank you for this video. You are right about the danger of this water release. But i am curious about the biological concentretion in the food chain. That surely play a role, even if it is very small.
Because of the role of hydrogen in metabolism and its ubiquitousness in the environment, organisms have not evolved mechanisms to accumulate or concentrate hydrogen or its isotopes in food chains. Therefore, biomagnification of tritium is not a factor in food chain transfer.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
@@zzzz6511 Thanks about this precision. I suspected that this big omission on the nature of this water release was a little “fishy”...Thanks again.
@@zzzz6511 Tritium is the only radionuclide that is anywhere near any kind of action level.
@@ForbiddTV The ALPS has been a spectacular failure, with major doubts about its effectiveness. In addition to tritium, all the radioactive carbon (C-14) in the wastewater will be released into the ocean along with many other radionuclides (plutonium isotopes, iodine-129, strontium-90).
As usual, it was very informative 👏thanks for the video. Your effort to educate and spread awareness is commendable and has helped me understand certain aspects of nuclear energy even better. Please Keep this up and great work! 💯👏
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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Thanks for putting this topic in a meningfull perspective 🙂
Thank you for clearing that issue up for us. You said what they should’ve said about this water and its effects on the enviroment.
I think that compared with the dissolved uranium that flows to the sea in any river with tributaries and headwaters near granite mountains, the radioactivity of tritium is trifling. But uranium in a fast-neutron breeder reactor is such a concentrated source of energy that chemistry that can extract "useful" quantities of uranium from river mouths, could quite safely replace ALL fossil fuels, AND make rubbish of the entire solar "renewable energy" religion.
The owners of fossil fuels know this so they've "outsourced" their fear of nuclear to nostalgic lefty romantics.
Strictly regarding redioactivity, the total volume of stored water in Fukushima could probably be dischared into the sea overnigh without any issues. Maybe the salinity of the sea water and other environmental stuff could suffer if such an approach was followed though. Like turbidity and such
Generally, it seems that you release it all overnight during a storm, that provides a good mixing, nothing will happen. Otherwise, as it was mentioned, heavy water is chemically equivalent to normal water, but not physically, so it could form a separate stream, I guess, in laminar conditions. Maybe you could see it with some bioluminescence, but it is just my wild guess.
Bulls shhheeetttsss !
She is paid off and reads her script
Paid off by whom?@@rykson161
Elina, thank you so much for your useful information. As we know, there are two main camps in this world pointing fingers at each other about the effect of releasing Fukushima water. Both sides seem to have valid points, and it becomes even more confusing when politics are involved. Nothing is better than discussing this with facts and data, and I really appreciate your explanation of the situation. Now, the final question: could someone be hiding the truth about the amount of radiation in the treated water? What is the worst-case scenario, the maximum amount that could be released? Are there any radioactive elements that are not being filtered out? What if the filtration process is not functioning well, and the full amount of tritium is being dumped into the ocean? Who will be accountable for monitoring the proper functioning of the process? Thank you very much again.
Only fools believe what the Japanese gov say. If TEPCO was honest at the first place, this accident would be avoided.
@@LeanBackNplay The full report shows the safety of the water and wasn't done by Japan or TEPCO. Only fools refuse to read the report and spread nonsense instead.
Do you know why I oppose Japan? because if they can spend a bit more money, maybe 2 billion dollar, they will deal with the radioactive water perfectly. but they choose not to spend that money.
is 2 billion a big number for a country like japan? they just believe that 2 billion is much important than the health of the people of neighbour countries.
@@user-pe5ow5ox9v The whole world is waiting for you to present your amazing science of a better way of dealing with tritiated water for any billions you want. All nuclear power plants release this water in the same way. I would think TEPCO is getting very annoyed with people like you who want to pretend the water is unsafe. They have already spent billions they didn't have to spend by building all those tanks and storing it for 12 years. Nothing, absolutely nothing would satisfy you.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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Great information, thank you so much.
Thank you for this video. I saw some people protesting this release and I was disappointed in the general media coverage around this.
Why should there be media coverage? All nuclear power plants routinely release this water. It's not news other than some people are ignorant.
Thank you, Elina. This really clears concerns over the issue for me at least. I look forward to more content like this and once again thank you very much
Thank you for explaining this clearly and simply, in a way that anyone can understand (and not blow out of proportion). I will definitely be saving this video link to send to friends who have been up in arms about this topic. ❤️
Please don't send this to your friends. This video is misleading and only explain the science on one type of nuclear material but fail big time explaining the technology that is used to cleaned the wasted water. The facts is no body know how the ALPS works, only the basic explanation from the PR of japan. There is 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. only tritium is looked at and recorded. Even then, Japan won't let third party to verify the record. Tritium have a half life of 12 years, while the other material have a half life of thousand of years and some are in the million of years. Nuclear waste water management have always been a problem for the science community and no technology can 100% removing all the dangerous material from the waste water. Japan is telling the world their technology can, but won't let independent third party to go in to take sample to verify their claim.
While your at it send them this as well, just to keep your share unbiased "I feel you are missing the point. The assault on nature by humans is escalating continuously. Just because others are releasing nuclear waste into the oceans that does not justify the release by others. You are clearly an expert in all things nuclear. But you simply cannot discount the concerns of other equally expert professionals. The marine ecosystem is under incredibly extreme pressure due to human caused pollution. This waste water release is yet another massive pollutant being dumped into the oceans. You are well aware of the cumulative effects of nuclear radiation as well as the halflife conundrum. Partner with concerned professionals in the biologies who can scientifically 'prove' your claims with peer reviewed studies that there is nothing to be worried about and only then should these claims you make be trusted."
Thanks for clearing up the facts as they clear up this power plant. 👍👍
Dilute, bury, forget, that's how disposal works.
Thank you for clearing the air on this topic. In comparison, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a high concentration of plastic waste, chemical sludge and other dumped debris between Hawaii and California, and yet everyone is chirping about a 5 KeV nuisance.
the french did nuclear testing in french Polynesia for 30 years.
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium.
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I have explained this to many & will share your brilliant explanation with them .
People tend to not believe those who are close, even though I have spent a lifetime working
& knowing the numbers & relative risk "backwards".
Well done.
ty, that was great info
I haven't heard stories but if I do, I'll understand more. Thanks for explaining
I always enjoy your content! As a lifelong science learner I’ve noticed there is a lot of gatekeeping when it comes to information given to the general public and what’s kept within the community. I feel there’s no reason we can’t find a way to give all the information from studies/findings to everyone in layman’s terms. It’s not the only reason, but a major reason studies get blowout of proportion or completely misinterpreted, and causes often negative affects on the general public
The reason is that sometimes the interpretation of those facts is disputed or hotly debated and can't be easily simplified into layman's terms. With this issue and many others relating to the environment, though, it's often political interests that get in the way. Powerful people have learned that they can get and keep power by creating and exploiting crises and manufactured fear. Here, we see the Chinese using fear of irradiated fish to take a cheap shot at Japan when the actual numbers show the risk for that is practically non-existent.
@@kma3647 Both are issues among many with this problem. We can also add funding problems so studies can be redone for conclusivity, science education for the general public has been trash for a long time, and elitism in higher education to name a few.
@@kma3647 Stop your idiocy now. The Chinese is protecting their people and the world should thanks them. They have nothing to do with scaring people. If you believed everything the internet is telling you. Even if you are a cat with 9 live, it still won't be enough for you. while the video did explain how the science works. but video have get a big fail for misleading people like you to believed everything is okay when it is not. The whole problem of the issues fall on the technology used to clean the waste water "ALPS". If you are smart. You will realize the video didn't explain anything on ALPS but just skip though telling you it is an invention that work wonder. How ever this so call ALPS have not been explain to the science community and have not been verify by third party. No IP have been registered on the ALPS, no explanation from Japan. Only PR of Japan tell you ALPS clean the waste water but how it done, they didn't scientifically explain it. They fail to let third party to go in to take sample and test it. Why?? why ain't people waking up and ask question. You do know the waste water have 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. why only tritium is been look at, what about the other 60+ radioactive material? Tritium only have a half life of 12 years, but some of the 60+ radioactive material have a half life of thousand of year and some are in the million of years. When there a problem, it is too late for the whole world,. This is not some kind of a joke or excuse to used to demonize the Chinese. This is something that will affect generation to generation to come.
@@shaelynnsettanni4986 interests tend to twist the narrative, we see it with cults or anti-vaxxers
@@kma3647 well, if the Japanese government and its people really believe it is safe to release into the ocean, why not release some into its waterways first to show the world how confident they are?
Hi Elina, thank you for the excellent video. It sounds like the water should not be much concern, but I am still a bit concerned about the effectiveness of the alps treatment.
Should I have any reason to be concerned? Are the methods known to be highly effective? Do you know if japan releases comprehensive test results of radioactive material levels in the water?
I appreciate your education on this topic.
I looked into it a bit and it turns out the iaea is doing safety checks, including measuring levels of radiation. They seemed to say levels of radionuclides are under Japan regulatory limits
Let's hope so because tritium doesn't seem to get concentrated by food chains whereas most of the other radionuclides do...
this is by far the best explanation for the regular people, i worked for 25 yrs in a nuclear power plant and performed process of cleaning up liquid waste and tested gets permit before releasing to the ocean.great job to educate people.
To educate you
Carbon 14, strontium 90 and iodine 129 and others which are more harmful than tritium are not treated and released into the ocean. But She only said about tritium. Disgusting .
@@zzzz6511 The full report clearly shows ALPS is effective against strontium 90 and iodine-129. The only radionuclide that was anywhere near an action level was tritium.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk that is not true btw i have been blocked to comment and my comments are not showing.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk some of my replies got deleted by this channel. Lol they are now actively trying to cover the truth.
The ALPS has been a spectacular failure, with major doubts about its effectiveness. In addition to tritium, all the radioactive carbon (C-14) in the wastewater will be released into the ocean along with many other radionuclides (plutonium isotopes, iodine-129, strontium-90).
@@zzzz6511 Your comment most certainly shows. Now show where the report is incorrect.
your comparison with the dosage vs other sources of radiation really puts in perspective how little they are releasing. Thanks!
Then they can drink it without to release it. Simply argument show the fact. Sometimes, people should not waste time to read those so called proof. Just use it for its own people and own river.
@@man_hua_xi_you Then you should drink the tritiated water that your country releases as well.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk my country? Even in the State, we drink filter water.
@@man_hua_xi_you The Japanese ALPS water is also filtered.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk then they should drink it.
Brilliant. So wonderful to hear the facts, and explained so well. Thank you.
Didn’t know this issue existed at Fukushima. Though glad to know that water won’t be radioactive enough to make a impact. Great video! 👏
It's night time. The public swimming pool is about to close. The lifeguard blows his whistle and tells everybody to get out of the pool. He cleans up some of the rubbish the visitors left behind, and was packing up his own stuff to go home when he turns around and sees a little boy about 12, standing beside the pool peeing INTO the pool.
_Hey there! What do you think you're doing?_
The boy looks up at him from across the pool, doesn't say anything, looks back down, and kept going.
Our lifeguard runs over and grabs the boy, and scolds him. After a while, he calms down and explains that because of what the boy did, they will have to drain the pool tonight and replace all the water. _So much water is expensive. But nobody wants to swim in a pool full of pee. More importantly, I'm going to miss my date. Why didn't you ust used the toilet?_
_Oh, no, Mr Lifeguard. Don't worry about that. The water isn't clean. We always pee inside the pool. Me and my 3 friends. They're waiting for me outside. They already peed before they got out of the pool just now. I kinda forgot today and had to hurry back to do it. Joe's days, he's supposed to take us home. But he's frequently late. I don't think I can wait that long. And the toilet's locked already._
Please do educate yourself and not believed everything that is on the internet. This video is misleading and only explain the science on one type of nuclear material but fail big time explaining the technology that is used to cleaned the wasted water. The facts is no body know how the ALPS works, only the basic explanation from the PR of japan. There are 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. only tritium is looked at and recorded. Even then, Japan won't let third party to verify the record. Tritium have a half life of 12 years and also occur naturally, that why other nation also able to release it in the ocean. However in Japan case the waste water is mix with the fuel due to the reactor had cracked from the partial melt down. The other material have a half life of thousand of years and some are in the million of years, they are very dangerous radioactive material that is normally stored deep under ground in very strong container. Nuclear waste water management have always been a problem for the science community and no technology can 100% removing all the dangerous material from the waste water. Japan is telling the world their technology can, but won't let independent third party to go in to take sample to verify their claim.
Fukushima disaster = Bigmotor
How much the japanese government pay you
I was hoping you would make this video, thank you for explaining. Could you elaborate in further how potassium is radioactive and naturally occurring.
Potassium, including the radioactive isotope K-40, is part of the original "star stuff" of which the Solar System is made. K-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion years, so not much is left. The rest has decayed into argon-40, which makes up about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium-40
Well done ! People like you bring a unprecedented level of wisdom on the Internet.
Just as a remainder : submarine strombolian volcanoes in Mediterranean release yearly one billion time what *could* have been released in Chernobyl. And much more than that was released in Fukushima.
UNSCEAR are UN employed experts on radiation damages, and they estimate that no detectable damage can be expected from the Fukushima meltdowns. Absolutely nothing compared with the earthquake and tsunami itself.
By a simple examination of statistics per quantity of fossil fuel burned, the worst environmental damage from the loss of three reactors is the emissions from the replacement gas turbines. In particular, the oceans are losing their slight alkalinity at a rate that can quite soon lethally make impossible the making of insoluble calcium carbonate corals and molluscs.
Thanks for the great detailed explanation about the Fukushima tritiated water release and its tiny risk compared to so many other radiation sources.
Don't be sheep. They are pulling wool over your eyes. You're missing something important. A lot of that "other radiation sources" is the nuclear power industry themselves. I don't care if it is China or India or Japan or America or whoever. They've all been dumping contaminated radioactive waste into the oceans for many decades. That is a large part of the background radiation. Another part comes from those countries that were conducting atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. You know who they are.
Yes, there are some unavoidable "natural" sources. But we don't need to add to them. That's just asking for trouble.
Please don't don't be fool by this video. This video is misleading and only explain the science on one type of nuclear material but fail big time explaining the technology that is used to cleaned the wasted water. The facts is no body know how the ALPS works, only the basic explanation from the PR of japan. There is 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. only tritium is looked at and recorded. Even then, Japan won't let third party to verify the record. Tritium have a half life of 12 years, while the other material have a half life of thousand of years and some are in the million of years. Nuclear waste water management have always been a problem for the science community and no technology can 100% removing all the dangerous martial from the waste water. Japan is telling the world their technology can, but won't let independent third party to go in to take sample to verify their claim.
I've seen a couple videos about this from "general science" type channels, but it's a lot more reassuring to hear it from a nuclear physicist. I appreciate that according to current scientific knowledge this isn't the catastrophe it's made up to be, I just hope it's not one of those cases where we find out in 2-3 decades we made a mistake.
Since tritium has a half life of 12.3 years and all nuclear power plants have always released this tritiated water for more than six decades, we know there are no long-term negative repercussions.
If it is a mistake we would have long felt it by now cause for decades every nuclear plant releases cooling water straight to the sea which contains more tritium
Most of Canada released would be into a Lake (Ontario) not an ocean. I windsurf in the immediate area of one. No concerns at all.
I live between two of the largest nuclear plants on earth. Next to one is a garbage incinerator "energy from waste". I trust the nuclear plants 1000 times more than the "energy from waste" facility.
Thank you for the facts.
This radioactive water is going to be released for 30 years. This is what concerns me.
Concerns me too, they should release it all at once to end all the unfounded fear mongering.
Would you ever think about doing a video about the Hanford plant in the US? I was part of a citizen watch group when they started a vitrification plan for dealing with their waste that was starting to leak. I am mostly curious about what was "accidently" pumped backwards into the columbia river.
Thanks for providing these great educational videos!
There is an assumption here that ALPS removed every harmful thing besides Tritium. The accusations we hear today are that there are plenty of other radioactive substances, besides Tritium, that have not been removed. Maybe it's important to explain the effectiveness of ALPS also. It will be more persuasive.
Anyone can read the report to see exactly what is in the water.....
Thanks, that was useful and well presented.
As a nuclear physicist, can you confirm that there will ONLY be tritium in ALL the ALPS processed water?
If the processed water is so safe, what is the logical reason to build a 1 km tunnel to release the processed water into the bottom of the ocean instead of a shorter tunnel, or simply over the shore like a river?
The report confirms that tritium is NOT the only isotope in the water just like she said. Pretending otherwise is disinformation on your part.
@@ForbiddTV May be I have not made myself clear. My question is: can Elina being a nuclear physicist confirm that tritium is the only radionuclide remain in the processed water? Through out the coming 30 years, there is no chance that the ALPS would fail or efficiency drop and not 100% of other radionuclides are filtered out?
Can you answer why the 1km tunnel is needed?
@@davetsang88 There you go again claiming there is "only tritium" in the water, so you are playing a game of trying to put things in her mouth she already made clear about. There is the official report which clearly shows what is in the water and the effectiveness of APLS.
The tunnel wasn't even necessary, just like storing the water for 12 years wasn't necessary after treatment. No other nuclear power plants do this when they release their tritiated water. TEPCO has bent over backwards to try to satisfy your unfounded fears, yet the more they do the more you scream foul.
@@ForbiddTV I don't know what you are talking about. Are you saying that she has admitted there are other radionuclides in the processed water? If everyone can and must refer to and trust the "Official report", what is the point for Elina's video?
Who has requested a 1 km tunnel to release the water? If the water is safe, the 1km tunnel is not necessary. The easiest thing TEPCO can do to "satisfy unfounded fears", is to allow concerned countries to take samples independently after the ALPS process and before the 100 times dilution with sea water. Why don't TEPCO do that, but to build a 1km tunnel?
Seems that you just keep asking people to have blind trust on TEPCO like you.
If the water released is so safe, why don't Japan recycle the water back for consumption within the country over the next 30 to 100 years?
The same reason your country doesn't recycle your tritiated water back in for your consumption.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this issue. There are misconceptions out there demonizing the whole nuclear industry in general and that attitude needs to change to green our world. The universe runs on nuclear forces to not use it for energy is completely ludicrous, even with the risks, albeit minimal.
I remembered one song from famous band... "Hybrid children watch the sea.....face the thing that should not be "
I think it might be useful to note several things. Like the fact that tritium is created in the upper atmosphere every day and descends to earth as rain--along with the carbon14 that is also being constantly created in the upper atmosphere and is part of every living creature (viz. Carbon14 dating is not like Tinder;-). One source says the Fukushima Daiichi site is planning to release about 1 Petabecquerel (PBq - 1 with 15 zeros after it), with all of those zeros that sounds like a lot, but globally, about 148 PBq of tritium is produced naturally in our atmosphere by cosmic radiation. Given the specific activity of tritium at 9,650 curies per gram (357 TBq/g), one TBq is equivalent to roughly 2.8 milligrams (0.043 gr). I did some math some time ago, and based upon the number of becquerels of Tritium, I calculate that the actual MASS of Tritium is about 3 grams, which if we assume is in the form of HTO, then we are looking at about 20 grams of tritiated (heavy) water, or half a shot (in Americanese). Wikipedia says: "This identified that the March 2016 holding of tritium on-site was 760 TBq (equivalent to 2.1 g of tritium or 14 mL of pure tritiated water)". So we don't have MILLIONS OF GALLONS of tritiated water, we have half and oz of tritiated water dissolved in millions of gallons of stored water, that will be diluted further. We are talking a trivial amount here, (and it is not even clear that any amount of tritium is biologically hazardous because the radiation energy (kEvs) is so weak.)
Thank you for your enlightening explanation on the Fukushima water release situation. Your video was easy to follow and incredibly informative.
My main frustration lies with the IAEA's inadequate public communication efforts. I firmly believe that nuclear power could play a crucial role in sustainable energy production. However, misconceptions and poor communication hinder its progress, affecting everything from costs to construction timelines, and even the very feasibility of new projects.
We desperately need more experts like you to speak out. Your voice and those like it should be amplified for the greater good.
The IAEA has a website and constantly tries to educate. But the media doesn't want people educated about nuclear energy, hence, views like yours.
@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk and to actually find the data on this, I had to go read the actual survey paper, most people wouldn't understand it. And it included all the different isotopes that ALPS has removed.
@@EwanMarshall Yep, the full report shows complete transparency of the contents of the water that is being released, but since the report doesn't promote the gloom and doom the media wants, they never mention it.
@@EwanMarshall In other words, it's not the IAEA that's the problem, the media is the problem for the world wide ignorance.
@@EwanMarshall The problem is the media, not the IAEA. The information is widely and freely available, but the information runs counter to what the media wants you to know since they need to fear monger nuclear energy.
We need more educators like you, breaking down events like this.
To many people use the word "radiation or radioactive" with almost no context of actual value....
Please do educate yourself and not believed everything that is on the internet. This video is misleading and only explain the science on one type of nuclear material but fail big time explaining the technology that is used to cleaned the wasted water. The facts is no body know how the ALPS works, only the basic explanation from the PR of japan. There are 60+ radioactive material in the waste water. only tritium is looked at and recorded. Even then, Japan won't let third party to verify the record. Tritium have a half life of 12 years and also occur naturally, that why other nation also able to release it in the ocean. However in Japan case the waste water is mix with the fuel due to the reactor had cracked from the partial melt down. The other material have a half life of thousand of years and some are in the million of years, they are very dangerous radioactive material that is normally stored deep under ground in very strong container. Nuclear waste water management have always been a problem for the science community and no technology can 100% removing all the dangerous material from the waste water. Japan is telling the world their technology can, but won't let independent third party to go in to take sample to verify their claim.
CZcams is trying to kill good channels by leading with 20 minute unskippable ads.
Great video, Elina...👍
Communication of 'authorities' with the general public is majorly impaired by 'authorities' having a track record of being corrupt liars.
I always advocate the radical approach of cultivating spiritual wisdom, because then problems resolve from the root all the way to the leaves, with ideally zero effort needed anywhere else but at the root. Symptom management is a practiced admitting of defeat/incompetence. It may have merit as a first response in a mix of measures, but it all too easily tempts to glorify it and get distracted from the problem causes.
The problem at the very root is fear servitude.
I am simply stunned, with your training, that radiating our oceans, at any level is a good idea!
The oceans have been irradiated since the beginning of time. There is always around 3400 grams of naturally occurring tritium in the earth‘s atmosphere as it is constantly being produced by cosmic radiation interacting with the upper atmosphere. Most of those 3400 grams are in the earth‘s oceans. The water in Fukushima only contains 2-3 grams of tritium so releasing it all at once would have no measurable impact.