Letter from Ashok K. Malhotra

Why Are We So Complacent?

I, along with a few caring friends, were very surprised when the United Nations’ watchdog agency permitted the Fukushima Nuclear Plant to start throwing its radiated water into the Pacific Ocean after 12 years of wait.

According to them, this radiated water has been diluted and is not going to harm the fish, sea plants, sea salt and bacteria inhabiting the ocean. The United States and Taiwan have not taken seriously this impending disaster which might be greater than the pandemic of COVID 19. However, the greatest concern has been shown by such surrounding countries as South Korea, China, fishermen of Japan, Australia and Singapore.

Some outspoken scientists, like the one in Hawaii, have warned us of the dangers of mixing this radiated water into the Pacific Ocean. Not enough research has gone into such a radically drastic move which might wipe out once and for all the present human beings along with our children, grandchildren, and rest of humanity.

All the fish, plants, bacteria and others who depend upon this water might be wiped out also. There would be no beaches that would be safe.

The reason being given by the Japanese company that owns the nuclear plant is that they cannot hold the water anymore. They are running out of space and they had waited enough for 12 years since the disaster first took place. They also had diluted the water so that there would be a minimal amount of radiation which human beings and all the fish, plants and bacteria that live in the ocean could tolerate. It would not be harmful to any of them.

A number of scientists specializing in this area have warned us that not enough research has gone into such a drastic move on the part of the United Nations watch dog agency to permit the mixing of this radiated water into the Pacific Ocean. Since most of the big oceans and seas are connected, this move on the part of the Japanese agency and the United Nations’ watchdog agency would be tantamount to one of the biggest disaster human beings and all living forms have ever faced.

Let’s think about it more while more research is being done by the various scientists all over the world to avert this bigger-than-COVID 19 disaster. Let’s avert this impending pandemic by doing more research and not be lured by the fact that there is no more space.

Ashok K. Malhotra
Oneonta