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- Season 6 Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule
- Season 6 Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
- Season 6 Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)
- Season 6 FINDING SATOSHI
- Season 6 A Monk’s Lessons: Living Amid Death From COVID
- Season 6 Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet
- Season 6 Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic
- Season 6 The Unknown Master of Restoration
- Season 6 Fukushima Monologue II
- Season 6 Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
- Season 6 Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis
- Season 6 Rainbow Family
- Season 6 A Teacher's Life Lesson
- Season 6 Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow
- Season 6 Daily Life in Times of War
- Season 6 Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens
- Season 6 Art of the Inland Sea
- Season 6 Art is Our Voice
- Season 6 Land of Rising Dreams?
- Season 6 Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village
- Season 6 Mississippi Revealed
- Season 6 JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain
- Season 6 Mountainous Traditions
- Season 6 OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -
- Season 6 Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca
- Season 6 Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
- Season 6 Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries
- Season 6 Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2
NHK WORLD PRIME - Season 6 Episode 10 Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
9.00 50 minutes 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.
