NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 6 Episode 10 - Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
The decommissioning of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant continues to produce contaminated water. Filtered to remove much of its radioactive content, it is stored on the site as treated water, now filling 1,000 massive tanks. In April 2021, the Japanese government announced plans to dilute the water to contamination levels far below legal limits before discharging it into the sea. However, people in the local fishing industry continue to harbor deep distrust. Why has this problem become so entrenched? The program explores a plan that was proposed soon after the accident 11 years ago, to build an impermeable wall around the plant and prevent the buildup of contaminated water, and why this plan was abandoned.
Episodes in Season 6
Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule
50 min
Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
50 min
Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)
50 min
FINDING SATOSHI
49 min
A Monk’s Lessons: Living Amid Death From COVID
49 min
Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet
49 min
Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic
49 min
The Unknown Master of Restoration
49 min
Fukushima Monologue II
49 min
Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
50 min
Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis
50 min
Rainbow Family
49 min
A Teacher's Life Lesson
49 min
Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow
49 min
Daily Life in Times of War
49 min
Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens
49 min
Art of the Inland Sea
49 min
Art is Our Voice
50 min
Land of Rising Dreams?
49 min
Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village
49 min
Mississippi Revealed
49 min
JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain
48 min
Mountainous Traditions
49 min
OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -
49 min
Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca
49 min
Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
50 min
Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries
49 min
Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2
49 min
