Japan's absurd claims defy logic and reason

When someone commits a wrong, the best thing to do is to apologize to the one who suffered, make amends and take measures to ensure the wrong is never repeated.

Japan, which is planning to discharge its nuclear-contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor into the Pacific Ocean, has clearly not learned the above lesson. Instead, it has rallied support from its ally and the international watchdog and pretends it has got a go-ahead for its discharge plan even though there are allegations that Japan bribed the latter for a green light.

That Toshimitsu Motegi, secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, blamed China for criticizing Japan's discharge plan and claimed nuclear waste water in China is more radioactive exposes his ignorance. All normally functioning nuclear power stations produce nuclear waste water that has been used to cool down the nuclear reactors. During the process, radioactive material is separated from the water using heavy plates that reduce the water's radioactivity to near normal. However, in the Fukushima case the water directly touched radioactive substances, so its radioactivity is much higher than normal.

Further, Japan chose the cheapest way of dealing with its nuclear contaminated water, one that poses the biggest risk to mankind. It could have found a place to store the water and seal it, but it has, instead, chosen to pipe it into the ocean. The Advanced Liquid Processing System method it is employing to treat the water cannot purge it of radioactivity, as has been widely reported.

That's why it's absurd to compare normal nuclear power stations' nuclear waste water with Fukushima's nuclear-contaminated water. The Japanese politician has exposed his ignorance as well as the Japanese government's bad habit of blaming victims from the point of the oppressor.

There is no room for such absurdity in the world.