Unbeknownst to most people, Japan has just released their 12th batch of radioactive nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.

This latest discharge weighed approximately 7,800 tons, which is equal to 15.6 million pounds.

And again, this was the 12th round of nuclear wastewater that they dumped.

In total, thus far, the nation of Japan has dumped

approximately 86,000 tons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, which sounds like a lot,

but it's actually just the beginning. Their plan is to continue doing this for the next 30 years,

and in that process, dump approximately 1.3 million tons of this nuclear wastewater into the Pacific

ocean. And if this is the first time you're hearing about this, you might be shocked. But there

is a good reason for why the Japanese are doing this. And the reason stems for what happened

14 years ago during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. If you remember, that was when an earthquake,

as well as a subsequent tsunami, caused a near meltdown of a nuclear power plant over in Japan.

The situation was a complete mess. The reactors got shut down, the backup generators which fueled the cooling systems.

They lost power, which then led to three nuclear meltdowns and the contamination of a million

tons of water. Now, for approximately 12 years, the Japanese government kept this water

inside of the plant where they've been slowly treating it. But they eventually ran out of space,

and so the Japanese government, they announced in 2023 a plan to begin slowly releasing this treated

radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Now the big question here very obviously is whether this is safe or not, both for the surrounding

nations as well as for the United States.

And so in order to answer those questions, let's unpack the entire situation step by step,

starting at the very beginning.

Fourteen years ago, on March 11, 2021, there was a massive earthquake, which was a 9.0 on the Richter

...