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Just as Japan has dumped more than 4,200 tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the Pacific as of Monday, an Australian public health and infectious diseases physician told the Global Times in an exclusive interview that Japan’s previous water testing was incomplete and unrepresentative. He called for an independent third party testing which covers the full array of isotopes present in Fukushimas nuclear-contaminated wastewater.

Tilman ruff is associate professor, at the melbourne school of global health. he says its hard to say how damaging the water will be for the environment. dont really have evidence for that. thats robust. the independent expert panel that was appointed by the pacific islands forum, which engaged very closely with the iaea, with the japanese government, and with tepco, the the operator of the plant, were really not convinced, reviewing all the evidence available, that we knew either what was in th...

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Https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_WcZZq9JTU ABCNewsAustralia 30 May 23 Operators of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was destroyed by a massive tsunami followed by nuclear meltdowns in March 2011, are set to release treated wastewater into the ocean in coming months. Public health expert Tilman Ruff says the danger with dumping the contaminated water is that it…

Australia's decision to partner with the US and the UK for the AUKUS pact has drawn scrutiny with questions looming about acquisition, construction and delivery of the nuclear-propelled submarines and a projected $368 billion outlay for up to eight vessels.  By Binoy Kampmark

The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean,

Storage tanks for radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters) The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of

Nuclear weapons and were once deemed unthinkable in Australia, but now defence experts say all options are on the table.

More now on ukraine, which has 15 nuclear reactors — eight are still operating and two are already in russian hands. one is in south—eastern ukraine. its one of the largest plants in the world and it alone provides a quarter of ukraines electricity. the defunct chernobyl site, which exploded in 1986, is also under russian control. so, how worried should the world be about russias unprecedented take over of these sites? ive been speaking to associate professor tilman ruff from the university ...