A hundred residents seek to stop the Fukushima spill in court

Around 150 residents of the prefectures of Fukushima, miyagi and surrounding areas of northeastern Japan filed a lawsuit this Friday asking for the interruption of the discharge of treated water from the damaged nuclear power plant into the sea. Fukushima.

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The lawsuit, the first of its kind since the spill began in late August, was filed in the Fukushima District Court against the company that owns the plant, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), and the Japanese central government, responsible for the plan, according to the local news agency Kyodo.

The complaint asks to stop the spillclaiming that it threatens the right of citizens to live safely and that hinders the businesses of local fishermen, who have been openly critical of the plan’s proceeding.

The plaintiffs also seek the annulment of the nuclear regulator’s approval of the facilities built for the spill release and the prohibition of dumping itself.

The discharge to Pacific Ocean of contaminated water treated from the power plant Fukushima began on August 24, after more than a year of preparation and after obtaining the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The Japanese government alleges that the spill is a necessary part of the work to dismantle the damaged plant, the scene of the second worst nuclear accident in history in 2011.

Millions tons of contaminated water has been generated in the facilitieseither due to the cooling work of the damaged reactors and melted fuel or rainwater seepage into them over the years.

This water is treated through a complex filter system which removes most of the harmful radioactive elements, except tritium, before being stored in tanks for disposal.

The plant is running out of tanks no physical space to install them, so it has been decided to pour the purified water into the sea, a process that will last at least 30 years.

The Executive defends the safety of the discharge, given that the treated water is diluted to reduce the levels of tritium present to less than a quarter of the concentration allowed according to national safety standards and within the international standards that he shuffles IAEA.

The organization has recalled on several occasions that the nuclear power plants around the world routinely discharge treated water containing tritium and other radionuclides as part of their normal operations.

Source: Elcomercio

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