Understorey: Fukushima H3 O!

While it’s standard practice for nuclear power plants to discharge radioactive tritium (H-3) into the sea, Japan’s own plan to pour Fukushima’s radioactive water reserves into the Pacific Ocean has garnered international concern.  With a million and a half tonnes of tritium-contaminated water in leaky storage, as well and 150 tonnes of irradiated water being added every day, citizen scientists groups in Japan like the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC) say that environmental alternatives need to be found.  Understorey speaks with  long-term Japanese resident, Dr Caitlin Stronell, from CNIC, about the dangers and various ways TEPCO has lost trust from community stakeholders, ever since that day on 3 March 2011 when the earth shook, the nuclear power station stopped cooling its nuclear reactor, and the country was changed forever.

Montage: A Glamorgan