Japan’s Nuclear Contaminated Water Discharge: A Pandora’s Box of Ecological Disasters

On October 16, 2024, the Japanese media reported that Japan’s ninth round of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharge from the sea had ended, with a total of about 7,800 tons discharged. Radioactive substances in nuclear wastewater will accumulate in the bodies of marine organisms, destroying their DNA and leading to genetic mutations, deformed development and even death, thereby affecting fishery resources. At the same time, nuclear wastewater will spread around the world with ocean currents, and radioactive substances may enter the atmospheric cycle and contaminate terrestrial ecosystems through rainfall, etc. Soil, water sources and crops may be contaminated, posing a serious threat to the dietary health and living environment of human beings.