日本将继续努力解决福岛的水污染问题

日本将继续努力解决福岛的水污染问题

Japan is resuming efforts to disperse a build-up of contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant that is stalling progress on cleaning up the site, the government said on Thursday.

日本政府周四表示，日本正恢复疏散受损的东京电力福岛核电站积聚的水污染的工作，这阻碍了清理工作的进展。

A panel of experts will meet on Friday for the first time in eight months to consider options to get rid of the water, Japan’s government said in briefing documents it released.

日本政府在发布的简报文件中表示，一个专家小组将于周五召开8个月来的首次会议，讨论如何清除水污染的方案。

The panel will consider strategies such as evaporation of the water and injection deep underground, in addition to a recommendation by Japan’s nuclear regulator to release the treated water into the ocean, a more conventional technique.

除了日本核监管机构建议将处理过的水释放到海洋中(这是一种更为传统的技术)之外，该委员会还将考虑一些策略，比如蒸发水和深层地下注水。

Regular meetings of the panel had stopped nearly three months after Tokyo Electric (Tepco) admitted it had not managed to completely remove potentially dangerous radioactive particles from treated water held in tanks.

在东京电力公司(Tepco)承认其未能完全清除罐内净化水中潜在的危险放射性颗粒后，专家组的定期会议已经停止了近三个月。

The admission had been a setback for the company and the government, as the water hampered clean-up of the site where three reactors melted down after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

这是该公司和政府的一个挫折，因为2011年地震和海啸后，三个反应堆熔毁，这是自1986年切尔诺贝利事件以来世界上最严重的核灾难，积水阻碍了现场清理的进展。

In 2016, the Japanese government estimated that the total cost of plant dismantling, decontamination of affected areas, and compensation, would be $203 billion, or about a fifth of the country’s annual budget.

2016年，日本政府估计，拆除核电站、净化受影响地区以及赔偿的总成本将达到2,030亿美元，约占日本年度预算的五分之一。

Tokyo won the bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics around six years ago, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declaring that Fukushima was “under control” in his final pitch to the International Olympic Committee.

大约六年前，东京赢得了2020年夏季奥运会的主办权。当时，日本首相安倍晋三在向国际奥委会提交的最后陈述中宣称，福岛“处于控制之中”。

At nuclear sites around the world, contaminated water is treated to remove all radioactive particles except tritium, a relatively harmless isotope of hydrogen hard to separate from water and released into the environment.

在世界各地的核设施，受污染的水经过处理，除去除氚以外的所有放射性粒子。氚是一种相对无害的氢同位素，很难与水分离，并释放到环境中。

But because of missteps such as last year’s admission that it had not removed everything except tritium from the tanks, Tepco faces difficulties winning the trust of regional fisherman who oppose the water’s release into the ocean.

但由于一些失误，比如去年东京电力承认，除了从水箱中取出氚外，它并没有把所有东西都取出来，因此该公司很难赢得当地渔民的信任。这些渔民反对将水排入大海。

Some countries, including South Korea, still have restrictions on produce from areas around the Fukushima site.

包括韩国在内的一些国家，仍然对福岛核电站周边地区的农产品实施限制。

Tepco has completed replacement of older tanks that had experienced leaks with stronger ones, the government said.

政府说，东京电力公司已经替换了发生泄漏的旧储罐。

It is expected to run out of tank space by mid-2022, the government added, adding to the urgency to resolve the problem.

政府补充说，预计到2022年年中，它的储罐空间将耗尽，这增加了解决这一问题的紧迫性。