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good afternoon good night wherever you
are in this wonderful world I'm Coy wire
this is CNN 10 and we start by taking a
trip to Japan today where there are
plans to release treated radioactive
Wastewater into the ocean in the coming
days you may remember 12 years ago an
undersea earthquake struck off the coast
of Japan triggering a tsunami with
30-foot waves with disastrous
consequences the Quake was so strong it
moved Japan's main island by eight feet
more than 20 thousand people died or
went missing the earthquake and tsunami
also cut power to the Fukushima daichi
nuclear plant nuclear reactors need
water to stay cool and prevent meltdowns
but at the Fukushima daiichi plant those
cooling systems started to fail reactor
cores overheated and contaminated water
inside the plant with highly radioactive
material it was Japan's worst ever
nuclear disaster and it took years for
the government to lift evacuation orders
near the site Japan was also left with
tons of radioactive Wastewater which it
has stored and treated over the past
decade now the country says it's running
out of space for the material and it
plans to start releasing treated diluted
Wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as
early as Thursday there are third
parties involved to monitor the release
including the international atomic
energy agency that's the United Nations
nuclear Watchdog so to speak but many
remain uneasy and fear the contamination
has already LED some Shoppers in parts
of Asia to stock up on items like salt
and seafood here's CNN International
correspondent and a Corin for more
a toxic blight on Japan's Coastline
Rising like a monument to the memory of
nuclear disaster and bottling up its
dangerous Legacy
just over 12 years ago a 9.0 magnitude
earthquake off Japan's Coast triggered a
tsunami power was cut at the Fukushima
deichi nuclear plant its cooling systems
stopped working and the plant went into
meltdown water was pumped in to reduce
the temperature of the reactor cores
becoming radioactive 1.3 million metric
tons has been kept here ever since it's
been treated to remove and dilute the
most dangerous elements on Thursday
Japan will begin to release that water
into the Pacific Ocean
the offshore discharge of Alps treated
water is an issue that cannot be
postponed in order to advance the
decommissioning of the plant and the
Reconstruction of Fukushima the
international atomic energy agency backs
Japan's plan to slowly feed the water
into the sea but not all the dangerous
elements can be removed a level of the
hydrogen isotope called radioactive
tritium will remain in the water
Japan and the iaea says it's safe in
small amounts credium is present there
in a very very low concentration and it
will be diluted even further to a point
that it will be negligible
the concentration of tritium released is
said to come under the World Health
organization's regulatory limit but such
assurances have not been enough to
assuage the fears of many in Japan and
around the region
I don't believe it at all it's very
dangerous it contains very radioactive
substances it would become a serious
problem once it's released into the
ocean we won't be able to eat fish
anymore
protests have been a constant since
Japan announced its plan to release the
water two years ago many worry about the
potential for bioaccumulation of
dangerous elements in the ecosystem
while neighboring countries like China
have accused Japan of treating the ocean
as a Dumping Ground but the disaster of
2011 left Japan with few options this
would not happen in a normal operation
of a nuclear reactor
here you had all this accumulation and
then you had to deal with it you had to
take a a decision many difficult
decisions will need to be made at
Fukushima in the coming decades
part of the reason to release the stored
water is to free up space to safely
decommission the plant
the legacy of the Fukushima nuclear
disaster will be a lasting one
10 second trivia with current technology
how long would it take for humans to
make a round trip to Mars six months one
year two to three years at least 15
years
according to NASA a crude Mission to
Mars and back would take two to three
years
if you are going to be floating in space
for two to three years what one food
would you want to eat have you ever
heard of the deep space food challenge
it's an international competition put on
by NASA and the Canadian space agency to
find ways to create healthy tasty foods
for astronauts on Long missions like a
round trip to Mars CNN Space and Science
writer Ashley Strickland takes us to a
culinary lab in San Francisco for more
so one thing to know about food in space
is like your taste buds are not
functioning the same way as they are
when you're on the surface
the food that we give astronauts is
actually quite pungent for them to even
feel anything right yeah so so good
strong flavors right it's not going to
be subtle
restaurants healthy on Long missions in
space presents many challenges and food
is a big one
Phenom Bagley is the co-founder of
nonfiction a design firm that is one of
several finalists in The NASA and
Canadian space agency competition called
the deep space food challenge
so going to Mars is going to take two
and a half three years round trip and
astronauts can only eat so many
freeze-dried rehydrated food before they
go crazy so what are some of these
greens that we're seeing here yes so
this is an aeroponic Garden so you can
see some baby bok choy you can see some
like butter greens non-fiction calls
this a culinary lab it's a working
mock-up of a modular unit that can fit
into a spacecraft it grows food has a
coffee maker and can even grill meat as
we all know open fires frown upon in
space right yeah let's avoid that right
so what we decide to do is to use
basically microwave to heat up the meat
and then to essentially draw the grill
pattern on the protein using lasers
go oh wow wow so this little Grill mark
on top kind of like depending on how wet
the the top surface was but it makes
this piece of chicken look a lot more
appetizing right space barbecue excuse
barbecue this part of the culinary lab
is what non-fiction calls Munch it's a
bioreactor that grows algae that can be
harvested and eaten by the astronauts so
what we do is that we extract these
little discs of microalgae and then
eventually we get a lot of it and then
this smells terrible and it doesn't
taste great but it's very nutritious so
what we do is that to hide the flavor we
actually mix it with a lot of different
types of ingredients here you are in a
silicon bag and then you mix it up and
then it ends up as balls like this and
you can keep these for you know two or
three days they'll still taste pretty
fresh I feel like I'm gonna have a
special meal here there you go
astronaut food here's the space food
still bad right
that's really good
we got the peanut butter and the oats
it's really nice texture
that's delicious okay absolutely I can
eat this all the time that's really good
it's not just that Intrepid space
fearing humans need food to stay alive
the preparation taste and appearance of
food can have real psychological
benefits for astronauts yeah
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as chicky this golden retriever nearly
nicked her owner's nuptials a dream
wedding in Italy when she chewed up a
passport just before the trip
fortunately the groom-to-be was able to
get a last-minute appointment at a
passport office with help from a senator
and a congressman who heard about the
couple's predicament winner of hashtag
your word Wednesday is Mr Jose Antonio
from Spain for submitting brouhaha a
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