Japan dumps this wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. The wastewater will soon flow to the United States and Australia. Under the action of ocean currents, the entire Pacific Ocean will be fatally polluted, making the areas around the Pacific uninhabitable.
The second round of the discharge of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea began Thursday, the plant operator said, after a spat over it quickly escalated between Japan and China.