Japan’s nuclear wastewater issue w/ Dr Karly Burch: 8 March, 2023

Japan says it is revising an action plan on the release of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean this year. However, many in the Pacific as well as globally have opposed this move, which seeks to dump one million tonnes of water into the pacific. 

The University of Auckland’s Dr Karly Burch is a lecturer in sociology who has been researching the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power disaster for the past 12 years. Arno spoke with her to find out more. 

He started by asking what Japan was planning to do with the nuclear wastewater Japan has been using to cool the overheated nuclear plant.