RADIOACTIVE CONTENT This 2021 photograph shows the storage tanks for treated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. —KYODO VIA REUTERS Japan's plan to dump treated wastewater from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean will have a negligible effect on Philippine waters, an environmental science professor has assured the public, especially fisherfolk alarmed by its potential impact on fish and other marine life. Hernando Bacosa, a professor at the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, said any discharged wastewater would have little to no direct impact on the Philippines, since it no longer contained high-risk radionuclides.

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