Beyond Nuclear speaks out against Fukushima Daiichi radioactive wastewater dumping in the Pacific Ocean

At the invitation of Beyond Nuclear board of directors member Kurumi Sugita, Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has recorded a video message opposing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's planned radioactive wastewater dumping scheme into the Pacific Ocean.

The Yosomono net Youtube channel recording is in English, but with Japanese subtitles, as well as English subtitled for the hearing impaired.

Here are the links:

With Japanese subtitles --

https://youtu.be/OX1gVUK8Xuw

With English subtitles for the hearing impaired --

https://youtu.be/mcq32rKlA6Y

French subtitles will also be added in the near future.

Please contact the Japanese Embassy in your country, and/or the Japanese consulate near you, and urge that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company's current plan, to begin dumping radioactive wastewater from Fukushima Daiichi into the Pacific Ocean less than two years from now, be reversed.

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Update on September 6, 2021 by admin

Kevin's statement, with Japanese subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnF4J83VhmWu6LyXGvJST5Q

Coalition letter to Japanese government agencies, opposing planned radioactive wastewater dumping into Pacific Ocean

Beyond Nuclear joined with 70 other organizations in writing to Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. The coalition is urging the Japanese national government to reverse its unwise and dangerous decision, announced two months ago, to begin -- a couple years from now -- dumping 330+ million gallons (1.25+ million metric tonnes, or 1.25 billion+ liters) of highly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The Case Against Fukushima Releasing Over One Million Metric Tons of Radioactive Wastewater

Beyond Nuclear press release, done in collaboration with the Institute for Public Accuracy.

Update on April 15, 2021 by admin

Thom Hartmann national radio show interview with Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps, "Fukushima Nuclear Fish Coming to Your Plate, Happy?"

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Paul DeRienzo on WBAI News Pacifica Radio interview with Kevin

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Jacqueline Luqman and Sean Blackmon "By Any Means Necessary" Sputnik Radio interview with Kevin, "Japan horrifies neighbors with a plan to dump nuclear wastewater in Pacific" (begins at 45 minute 55 second mark of the program, ends at 59 minute 00 second mark)

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Dennis J. Bernstein "Flashpoints" KPFA Pacifica Radio interview with Kevin, "Japan plans to dump massive amounts of highly toxic radioactive water and waste from the Fukushima meltdown into the Pacific Ocean–California Beach-goers beware" (begins at 32 minute 35 second mark, ends at 51 minute 20 second mark)

Fukushima Wastewater Will Be Released Into the Ocean, Japan Says

The government says the plan is the best way to dispose of water used to prevent the ruined nuclear plant’s damaged reactor cores from melting.

As reported by the New York Times.

The New York Times also ran a companion piece, focused on the official international protest of the ocean dumping, as by the neighboring governments of South Korea, China, and Taiwan.

The Washington Post has also reported on this story.

Thom Hartmann interviewed Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps on his national radio show ("Fukushima Nuclear Fish Coming to Your Plate, Happy?"). Here is the write up:

More nuclear waste is about to be released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima. Where it will be absorbed by plants, eaten by small fish, who are eaten by bigger fish, and concentrated through a process called "bioaccumulation." Pretty soon those fish end up on your plate... Looking forward to a swim off the west coast? Enjoying your fish?

Here is the link to the recording of the interview.

[Corrections: The actual volume of radioactive wastewater to be dumped in the ocean is currently enough to fill around 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools; the dumping is not set to begin until a couple years from now, not before the Tokyo Olympics.]

PSR WI petitions to intervene and requests hearing in opposition to NextEra Energy Point Beach's 80-year operating license application

Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant, NRC file photo.Petition for Leave to Intervene and Request for an Adjudicatory Hearing, filed by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin (PSR WI).

The NextEra Energy Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant Atomic Reactor Units 1 and 2 are located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on the Lake Michigan shoreline (see photo, left). PSR WI, backed by experts, contends that Point Beach's negative impacts on Lake Michigan -- such as drawing in hundreds of millions of gallons daily for cooling, then discharging the wastewater super-heated back into the Lake -- has already resulted in significant ecosystem damage for 50 years; 30 more years of operations without cooling towers will only worsen the harm.

Accompanying the petition and request were expert witness declarations:

Declaration of Arnold Gundersen, M.E., Nuclear Engineering, Chief Engineer, Fairewinds Associates, Inc.;

Declaration of Alvin Compaan, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Physics at University of Toledo, and President of Lucintech, Inc.;

Declaration of Mark Cooper, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Economic Analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, and Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America.

See PSR WI's press release, here.