Japan affirms that there is no damage to marine ecosystems from the waters of...

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The Government of Japan assured that the Fukushima spill is not altering the surrounding ecosystems with radioactivity. After a series of tests carried out on fish and seawater within the near perimeter of the nuclear power plant, authorities concluded that there are no detectable amounts of tritium in the bordering area, so the process is safe.

The Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) detailed that the fish sam Phone Number List ples were captured five kilometers from the spillway of the Fukushima plant . The organization promised to capture marine species in the area daily to analyze them and rule out the possible existence of radioactive material. The tests will be carried out until the end of the following month and the results will be public .

For its part, the Japanese Ministry of Environment collected seawater samples from 11 points located within a 50-kilometer radius around the Fukushima plant. The organism found between 7 and 8 becquerels (bq), a unit that measures the radioactive decay per second of tritium per liter. The discovery implies non-significant levels of radioactivity. The ministry committed to carrying out analyzes and publishing the results weekly for the next three months.

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The company in charge of the operations of the Fukushima plant, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) carried out its own investigation in this regard. After analyzing the seawater collected at nine points near the plant, the company determined that the liquid contained less than ten becquerels of tritium per liter, a figure below the 700 becquerels that are the organization's limit.



As a safety measure when dumping nearly one million metric tons of treated water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima plant, Japan set a maximum of 1,500 bq per liter. The amount is almost seven times less than the 10,000 becquerels required by the World Health Organization (WHO) for drinking water.

Tarik Jasarevic, spokesperson for the WHO, stressed that the provisions applied by the country for the spill respect international standards on safety for protection against radiation. He explained that the standards used in the release of treated water from Fukushima are endorsed by the highest health authority in the world and six other international organizations. The standards "constitute the world reference to protect the population from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation," he said.