Radioactive Waste

Radioactive Waste

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

How Pandemics End, Earth’s Pulse, Black Smoke

Episode: How Pandemics End, Earth’s Pulse, Black Smoke

  • Jul 20, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 16:49 mins

Japanese officials recently announced they will release 1 million tons of nuclear contaminated water into the ocean. The water was used to clean up the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, and there’s no more room to store it on land. So, is it safe to release it into the ocean? We get answers from Curtin University nuclear materials expert Nigel Mark. (Segment produced by Lynsey Call) (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)