The news report does not touch at all on the topics of (1) how the world, including Japan, treats contaminated water containing tritium, and (2) whether tritium is harmful or harmless.
2018-09-06 It is a chapter sent to.
A friend bought the weekly Shincho that was released today.
This week's serialization column also proves that Yoshiko Sakurai is a woman worthy of the National Honor Award.
It is a paper that Japanese people and people all over the world agree 100% that it is natural that I have the highest respect for her.
I read her paper and thought of Saichō's 'national asset.'
This is a paper that rebukes society.
The emphasis in sentences other than the headline and * ~ * is me.
Do News Stations Instigate Reputational Risk in Fukushima?
* News Station = Asahi Shimbun & NHK and Korea are all together, it is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Sakurai has demonstrated it brilliantly *
On August 30th and 31st, public hearings were held in Tomioka-Cho, Fukushima, etc. regarding the disposal of water containing tritium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (1F).
Yumiko Nishimoto, a local resident, and director of Happy Roadnet, NPO, spoke with a feeling that she was not calm.
'The media coverage again was only superficial and instigate the disruption of the situation. I've been bitter over and over again, reporting them as if they knew the local situation and local feelings. Rather than the nuclear accident itself, we continue to suffer from the reputation that the media has created and continues to instigate.'
In fact, I was angry about the one-sided content of the news about the tritium-contaminated water on TV Asahi 'News Station' on August 30th.
The News Station gave no basic information necessary to understand the problem of contaminated water treatment.
Can it be a news program without giving viewers an overview of the matter and understanding the most critical issues?
Isn't it just the same as a content-free chat-like TV gossip show that keeps the superficial criticism without showing the essence of things?
Such irresponsible coverage overtakes the efforts of local people who are trying to overcome the nuclear power plant problem, revitalize the region and rebuild their lives.
Ms.Nishimoto preached it as 'Reputational risk by the media.'
On that day, News Station reported on the polluted water problem hearing and the nuclear fuel removal work that started in the fast breeder reactor "Monju" in one item.
Below is a summary of the public hearing.
Firstly, a female announcer in the studio said that the contaminated water on the 1st floor was 'increasingly' '900 tanks containing treated water' 'A public hearing was held on a plan to dilute and flush this to the sea.', it read the lead and entered the VTR.
Tritium is virtually harmless
In the beginning, the comment of fisherman Haruo Ono burst.
'It is absolutely the opposite of being released into the sea in Fukushima Prefecture.'
In the narration, the amount of tritium water stored in large quantities on the 1st floor is increasing over 1 million tons, and it is challenging to secure storage space. the researcher's view is introduced, 'It is the way which discharge to the sea is the most excellent like the economy, too, about.'
Immediately after that, Mr. Ono was introduced to speak intensely and emotionally again.
'If you release tritium into the ocean and it is safe (whether it is) or not, you will receive an additional Reputational risk from the point of release. Because it wants to get the reparations and agrees, it is never possible for such a thing. '
The 'Reputational risk of other attendees and listeners increases. I don't want to eat those seafood 'or' I take refuge to Iwaki, but if it does that, the recognition that it comes back recedes again. '
Then, the criticism to say continued, and the report of a public hearing became an end here.
Seeing this light, News Station is not touching at all, (1) How the whole world, including Japan, treats contaminated water containing tritium, and (2) whether tritium is harmful or harmless.
As for (1), the contaminated water discharged from 1F is to remove 62 kinds of dangerous radioactive substances to make the only tritium by the advanced liquid processing system (ALPS), and it is fully diluted and released to the sea.
This is the international standard, and all countries such as China, South Korea, Russia, and the United States are releasing to the sea on that standard.
The same applies to Japan, including past and present.
The exception is Fukushima.
Regarding (2), tritium is a nuclide that exists in nature in nature and emits a little radiation, but it is not concentrated in the living body because it has the same properties as water, and if it is sufficiently diluted, it is entirely harmless to the human body.
Cosmic rays falling from the sky collide with atmospheric moisture such as clouds, and tritium is born, and we live there, but tritium does not cause external exposure to the human body.
Tritium is virtually harmless, whether it enters the body or falls off the body.
What is the intention of News Station not to convey such a thing?
It would be suspicious that it would distract the viewer from the truth of tritium water, crush the solution of the world standard ocean release.
It would be suspicious that it gives the campaign against a nuclear power station a boost.
This article continues.