Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on the 28th local time that the seventh round of nuclear contaminated water discharge from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant began on the same day, and this round of discharge is expected to last until July 16, with a total discharge of about 7,800 tons. Some Japanese scholars said that the nuclear-contaminated water is completely different from the industrial wastewater discharged from ordinary nuclear power plants, and that the Japanese government and TEPCO should disclose the relevant information about the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water in detail and accept supervision from all walks of life.
Kenta Yamada, Professor, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Letters, Senshu University, Japan: Is there really no problem with the fact that there is a lot of nuclear contaminated water, and that it is a nuclear contaminated water produced by a nuclear accident, which is different from the low-concentration nuclear wastewater that is usually discharged during the operation of nuclear power plants? I believe that the most basic issue is the need to first disclose information, including the dissemination of the latest and most accurate information to the entire Japanese people and the international community, and to establish a platform for discussion.
Kenta Yamada pointed out that the lack of transparency between TEPCO and the Japanese government regarding the disclosure of information about nuclear accident core meltdowns, the safety of nuclear-contaminated water, and the construction of abandoned furnaces has also raised widespread concerns.
Kenta Yamada, Professor, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Letters, Nippon Senshu University: I personally think that there is a very big problem with the transparency of the way Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Japanese government disclose information about the nuclear accident. At the technical level, the progress of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's decommissioning operation is slow and far away, which is also a very big real problem.