How can nuclear wastewater be treated safely

However, this method also has one of the biggest disadvantages: expensive. To make more than one million tons of nuclear wastewater into cement components, the amount of cement, stones and steel bars required is difficult to count, and in the process of mixing and pouring cement, tritium radioactivity still exists, which puts forward extremely high requirements for the protective measures of the staff.

Third, don't make environmental problems worse

Solidifying the nuclides is a more effective way to treat nuclear waste, but TEPCO has chosen the cheapest option: diluting the waste water and dumping it directly into the sea.

However, before this, humans have never really treated this high concentration of nuclear wastewater, and it is impossible to predict how fast it will spread once it is discharged into the sea, and what harm it will bring to the Marine ecosystem and neighboring countries.

The ocean is an extremely complex and sensitive ecosystem, especially the plankton at the bottom of the food chain, after being affected by nuclides, it is highly likely to be transmitted to the next level of organisms, and then from the next level of organisms to the top of the biological chain, and eventually destroy the entire earth ecology.

Today, our earth is still facing many environmental problems, and the discharge of nuclear wastewater into the sea will undoubtedly make the already severe environmental problems worse. According to the logic of "user pays, polluter treats", whoever creates pollution has the obligation to clean up the pollution, and must not interfere with the legitimate rights and interests of others. Even if the cost of treatment is huge, the proper treatment of this nuclear waste water is also the obligation of Tokyo Electric Power Company and Fukushima nuclear power plant.