Why do Japanese people have such a strong sense of environmental protection, but also discharge nuclear waste water?

The news that the Japanese government basically decided to discharge more than 6.5438+0.2 million tons of nuclear waste water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean caused an uproar among domestic netizens. However, while we were surprised, the international community reacted flatly to this, and even Europe, which talked about environmental protection all day, did not comment on it.

First, because the international community is mainly concerned about the epidemic, other things are not major issues; Second, because the Japanese government did not immediately discharge nuclear waste water, but began to discharge it in the autumn of 2022, no one knew whether the nuclear pollution treatment technology at that time was mature, so it did not express dissatisfaction with Japan's unreasonable behavior in the future.

Why do domestic netizens react violently to this? Because Japan is too close to us, if nuclear sewage is really discharged into the Pacific Ocean, we are most vulnerable. Japan has just shared the pressure of nuclear pollution with the whole world, and the countries around the Pacific bear the brunt. Once Japan officially starts emission work, I believe more countries will oppose it.

However, there is such an "anti-intelligence" remark on the Internet, saying that the nuclear waste water discharged by Japan is cleaner than tap water. Indeed, Japan will treat nuclear waste water, but it can only be said that radioactive elements have decreased, or the harm of radioactive elements to human body has been alleviated, but this kind of harm has always existed, which is more unrealistic than clean tap water.