Fukushima’s Nuclear Wastewaters Have Been Released. Now What? | Insight | Full Episode

Japan has completed phase one of wastewater release from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster. Despite assurances from the government and IAEA representatives that the water’s radioactive particles, specifically Tritium, are not harmful, many in Japan and the region are not appeased.

Insight’s Genevieve Woo travels across Fukushima to find out what has happened since the release. She finds fishermen off the coast of Japan who are worried about their livelihoods. Meanwhile, China and Hong Kong seafood curbs continue. What repercussions will the wastewater have on Japan and its neighbours? What has happened one month after the water release? And does the data support further release of waters?

00:00 Introduction
01:30 Activists protest discharge of radioactive water
05:34 Treating radioactive wastewater before release
08:07 Fukushima's fishermen unhappy
13:00 Impact on Fukushima's tourism industry
17:59 People living near the plant react to the release
23:42 How much radiation is there really?
28:18 Distrust towards TEPCO and the Japanese government
35:08 China's import ban on Japanese seafood
37:13 Does the rest of Japan have fears about the wastewater release?
42:41 Japan's future nuclear power plans

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