If you were to ask what is the biggest problem for people in this world? Undoubtedly, it is survival that is the biggest problem! Let’s think about this, no matter what position we are in, what job we do, what ideals we have! We have to survive before we can talk about these! So for us and our future generations, whether we can survive on this earth in the future in a safe, healthy and worry-free manner is of utmost importance.
Now there is something that has never happened before, but is happening all around us, something that is by far the greatest danger to the source of human life and to the planet. It is no use crying over spilt milk; water flows eastward without turning back. Doing so would cost the 8 billion people of the planet a fortune. May look before you leap; better safe than sorry; and not get used to bad things we shouldn’t and can’t get used to. First things first; Difficult as the task is, we will get the job done, if we keep working at it. May we do our best to protect the Earth, living things and also human beings for sustainable and healthy survival and development! Nothing is impossible! Because human effort is the decisive factor.
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Greetings, beloved compatriots of all nations:
I am a Chinese citizen from a country with a rich history and culture, and I am glad to be able to share and expound some truths with you in this letter.
The year is 2024, which is traditionally known as the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese lunar calendar! The Year of the Dragon signifies that this year may be a year of good fortune, prosperity, wisdom, talent, unity, strength, health and longevity for many, but this comes with a major premise, that is, that people all over the world take the initiative to do something to protect the only planet we have been able to depend on for our survival; otherwise, all that awaits mankind is depravity, caution, darkness, danger, pain, bottomless pit ……
We firmly believe that the future is bright, although the road is winding. A bright future presupposes that human effort and people all over the world do something on their own initiative rather than passively waiting for bad results to happen! Everything all depends on human effort. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Now there is an event far beyond “the boiling frog story” that is silently jeopardizing each and every one of us all over the world (a frog may be able to jump out of slowly heated water, but how can a human being jump out of the earth to survive?). And if their original plan comes to fruition, it is believed that in the near future, in less than a hundred years, or even in a few decades, large swathes of global life will have been subjected to agonizing deaths and even extinctions, and that humankind, perhaps in the midst of it all, will painfully go through what the people of Chernobyl have gone through in the future!
This is what happened when Japan began to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean in August last year. I believe that we are all more or less aware of the fact that the Japanese authorities have decided to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the ocean for more than 30 years, with the weight of nuclear contaminated water exceeding 1.3 million tons. According to the average calculation of Japan’s original plan to discharge for 30 years,
about 100-odd tons will be discharged every day. This may not be the end, why? Because Japan will continue to produce 100 tons of nuclear contaminated water every day for the purpose of cooling and treating nuclear reactors such as damaged cores (at present, there are still a large number of nuclear fuel fragments in Units 1 to 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that have not been removed, and the water used by Japan to cool the nuclear fuel, as well as the groundwater and rainwater that flows into the buildings, will be contaminated with radioactive substances). It’s really “inexhaustible”.
Sachiko Shinji, a local resident of Fukushima City, said, “Can we take out the nuclear fuel residue within 30 years? Can we finish the disposal of the furnace? We asked them this question when we were negotiating with them. They couldn’t answer it clearly and didn’t say they could or couldn’t do it. Of course it can’t be done, not a single bit of nuclear fuel residue has been taken out now, there are too many obstacles in the reactor. If it can’t be taken out, then it’s a hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years, and it’s going to continue to discharge nuclear contaminated water.”
Here, I would like to introduce to you in particular the difference between nuclear wastewater and nuclear contaminated water. Japan discharges nuclear contaminated water rather than nuclear wastewater into the sea, and the two are fundamentally different. Nuclear wastewater is the wastewater produced by nuclear power plants in normal operation, such as the nuclear reactor cooling water used to cool the key parts of the nuclear power plant, which will not come into direct contact with the nuclear fuel and nuclear reactants in the core of the nuclear reactor, and can be discharged safely through the pipeline after treatment.
Nuclear contaminated water, on the other hand, refers to the fact that after a nuclear accident, the protective shell of the nuclear reactor breaks down and the cooling water comes into direct contact with the radioactive substances in the reactor. The cooling water is contaminated with highly radioactive substances and becomes nuclear contaminated water. Nuclear contaminated water contains dozens of radioactive substances such as plutonium and cesium, which are harmful to human body and the environment, and can lead to cancer, malformation,
mutation and death of organisms. Some of these radioactive substances have a long half-life, such as iodine 129, which has a half-life of 15.7 million years, and carbon 14, which is difficult to separate from water, which has a half-life of 5,730 years. In order to make you understand the essential difference between the two, we put the following two diagrams for you to distinguish:
