China and Russia Express "Deep Concern" Over Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant Contaminated Water Discharge

On the 4th, the opening day of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping (right), President of China, posed for a photo ahead of a summit meeting with Vladimir Putin (left), President of Russia, who visited his country at the State Guesthouse of Beijing Diaoyutai.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concerns over Japan's plan to release contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean.

According to Japan's public broadcaster NHK on the 5th, the two countries held a summit in Beijing on the 4th during the Beijing Olympics and issued a joint statement expressing "deep concern" over the Japanese government's plan to filter contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant using the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), dilute it with seawater, and release it into the ocean.

The Japanese government claims that water with a high concentration of radioactive materials from the Fukushima plant becomes very different from contaminated water after being filtered through ALPS, and asserts that if released as planned, the radiation impact would be only 0.0000018 to 0.0000207 mSv (millisieverts) per year.

This level is less than one hundred-thousandth of the natural radiation exposure of 2.1 mSv per year in Japan. According to Tokyo Electric Power Company, ALPS can remove 62 types of radioactive materials including cesium, but tritium (triple hydrogen) cannot be removed.

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