JAPAN TO DUMP RADIOACTIVE FUKUSHIMA WATER INTO THE PACIFIC
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 2011 Japan was hit by a 9.1 earthquake. That was the biggest, biggest earthquake ever in Japan. |
| 0:07.5 | It resulted in a tsunami, 30-foot waves washed over parts of the country, including Fukushima, |
| 0:14.4 | where there was a power plant in the prefecture there. That power plant suffered three reactor meltdowns, explosions. |
| 0:22.6 | There's an incredible video of this. And that's been an ongoing environmental disaster since 2011. |
| 0:28.8 | It was incredible. It was Chernobyl. |
| 0:30.5 | It's probably back in 2011. I mean, it's a major time. |
| 0:33.4 | Time goes by so quick. |
| 0:34.6 | It does. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, so it's coming back around in the news again as it always has over the last years. |
| 0:41.5 | And what that looks like is Japan is planning, announced a plan to dump the wastewater |
| 0:47.8 | from the Rect Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. |
| 0:51.2 | So the plants operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, |
| 0:54.9 | they said by next summer they're going to run out of room for the tanks they're building |
| 0:59.7 | to store what they consider about 1.2 million tons of this wastewater. |
| 1:05.2 | And this is contaminated wastewater. |
| 1:07.2 | So obviously this isn't going to go over big for a lot of people around the globe. |
| 1:12.5 | So it's estimated a German marine research institute estimated that it's going to take about 57 days |
| 1:19.6 | for this stuff to get throughout the Pacific Ocean. So it's going to move pretty quick. |
| 1:23.6 | Japan's got another problem on its hands though. The Olympics is starting in July, |
| 1:28.4 | end of July. And this topic is clouding the Olympic games and the start of the Olympic Games. |
| 1:35.8 | So it's a cascade of calamities. That's what the headlines are saying. |
| 1:38.5 | Plagues, Tokyo Olympic ambitions. Now, there's a lot of pushback within Japan. |
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