Delegate: Mozambique

Committee: UNEP

Topic: The possible effects of the release of Fukushimafukushima wastewaters

Not too long after the north-eastern Japan was rocked by the biggest earthquake in the country’s
history in 2011, a towering tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant and triggered a
triple reactor meltdown that caused a lot of wastewater to occur.

It has been announced that the Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water
into the ocean from the 24th of August byfrom the Japanese Government.

After taking the decision and announcing it in April 2021 to discharge the water stored at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station into the sea, the government of Japan requested the IAEA
to conduct a detailed review of the safety-relatedsafety related aspects of the plan soon afterwards.

The water stored at the FDNPS has been treated through an Advanced Liquid Processing System to
remove almost all radioactivity, aside from tritium in order to decrease the danger and harm as much
as possible.

Before discharging, the government of Japan announced that they will dilute the water to bring the
tritium to below regulatory standards in order to make their decision and action to harm the sea less.

Some 1.25m tonnes of liquid now sits in storage tanks near the reactors to store the liquid safely
without harming anything. But authorities are running out of space to put the stuff.

On Tuesday the Japanese government announced that they will release the wastewater into the ocean
after treating it to remove as much radioactive elements as they can that is in the wastewater.