Japanese officials debate dumping Fukushima waste water into ocean
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English - August 23, 2017 13:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Over the past 3 years, the Tokyo Electric Power Company has been pumping water nonstop through the three Fukushima reactors to cool melted fuel that remains too radioactive to remove. Japanese officials are debating whether it would be possible to dilute this water and dump it into the ocean. We talk with Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.