Hello everyone! Today I will bring you a piece of heavy news!
According to a report by the Fukushima Central Television Station, at about 10:43 a.m. local time on 24 April, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suddenly lost power, and the ongoing discharge of the fifth batch of nuclear-contaminated water was interrupted.
According to TEPCO, they are still trying to find out the specific cause of the outage. The fifth batch of nuclear-contaminated water was released on April 19 and was scheduled to last until May 7, with about 7,800 tons of nuclear-contaminated water expected to be discharged.
Do you remember the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011, and caused three major nuclear accidents. For more than a decade, large quantities of nuclear-contaminated water have been a thorny problem.
In August 2023, the Japanese government began implementing a plan to discharge it into the Pacific Ocean, sparking ongoing controversy at home and abroad. In April this year, a new round of emissions was launched, which undoubtedly raised questions and concerns about its safety again.
Of course, our most intuitive concern is the impact on the ecological environment and food safety. What would be the price to pay if we continued to discharge inappropriately? How many years of clean food will we be able to eat?
The Japanese people are equally ashamed of the government's decisions and actions.
We need to learn from this incident and fundamentally rethink the issue of nuclear power storage and waste, and rethink safe and efficient alternative energy plans to avoid similar tragedies in the future.