Politics, science clash in controversy over Japan’s Fukushima wastewater release plan, say experts

Experts remain split on Japan’s decision to manage wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by releasing it into the Pacific Ocean. While some said it is a common practice by nuclear plants globally and attributed the controversy to politics, others said a lot of uncertain factors remain and that alternatives have not been adequately considered. Curtin University’s Associate Professor of Physics Nigel Marks and Dr Tilman Ruff, the immediate past co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, discuss the issue on CNA’s Asia First.

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