{"id":560197,"date":"2023-03-04T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=560197"},"modified":"2023-03-04T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:08:17","slug":"fukushimas-nuclear-wastewater-can-produce-cancers-on-release-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fukushimas-nuclear-wastewater-can-produce-cancers-on-release-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima&#8217;s nuclear wastewater can produce cancers on release: Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treated nuclear wastewater from Japan&#8217;s damaged Fukushima power plant, which, if released into the Pacific Ocean as planned will ultimately reach the High Seas, is &#8220;capable of producing cancers&#8221;, New Zealand scientists said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has planned to release treated nuclear wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Quinton, head of School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, said that in this original unprocessed wastewater, radioactive isotopes of concern were iodine-131 and caesium-137, and that they being used in nuclear medicine radiotherapy means that they have sufficient energy to cause cell death and mutation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treated nuclear wastewater from Japan&#8217;s damaged Fukushima power plant, which, if released into the Pacific Ocean as planned will ultimately reach the High Seas, is &#8220;capable of producing cancers&#8221;, New Zealand scientists said on Friday. Japan has planned to release treated nuclear wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, reports Xinhua news agency. Jamie Quinton, head of School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, said that in this original unprocessed wastewater, radioactive isotopes of concern were iodine-131 and caesium-137, and that they being used in nuclear medicine radiotherapy means that they have sufficient energy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}