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LZ Granderson: Nuclear power could save our air quality. At what cost to the water?

You know it was a remarkable week when dumping tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean wasn't even the lead story. That's right: While much of the globe's attention was on the former American president's legal battles and the mug shot seen around the world, Japan started its 30-year plan to release the diluted yet still contaminated water that was stored at the now defunct Fukushima ...
as they take part in a rally outside the Tokyo Electric Power Company headquarters building in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2023, against the Japanese government's plan to release treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi power plant into the ocean.

You know it was a remarkable week when dumping tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean wasn't even the lead story.

That's right: While much of the globe's attention was on the former American president's legal battles and the mug shot seen around the world, Japan started its 30-year plan to that was stored at the now defunct Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. led to a devastating tsunami and the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Damage to the plant led to radiation

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