An article posted on his social network service by Professor Yong-Hoon Jung, KAIST. Facebook capture
The program related to’tritium detection at the Wolseong nuclear power plant’ aired by the Korea Broadcasting System (KTV) was engulfed in controversy over bias. It was pointed out that the public agency responsible for delivering objective facts sent out an unsense argument. KTV is a public organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and is in charge of public relations.
On the 15th, KAIST Professor of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Professor Jeong Yong-hoon, said, “It’s embarrassing, so I can’t tell you about the episode “It’s the best number – Tritium detection in the body of Wolseong residents,” which KTV aired on the 19th through his social media (SNS). Comes out. (In a word) it sounds ignorant.” The best chatter is a conversational program that advocates’time and space’ that is the easiest to understand and refreshes the life of the world.
On this day,’the best number’ dealt with the detection of tritium at the Wolseong nuclear power plant in Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk. Two panelists who participated in the program advocated the shutdown of the Wolseong nuclear power plant and argued that the tritium detected at the nuclear power plant was dangerous. Lee Jung-yoon, CEO of the Nuclear Safety Division, said in a broadcast, “2g (tritium) comes out every day from the bodies of the residents. That’s not really a small number.”
Professor Yong-Hoon Jung said, “If 1 gram of tritium comes out a day (from the human body), a person dies. I’m definitely dead,” he said. It sounds ignorant.”
KAIST Prof.’Cocks’ at KTV Panel’s Unsense Remarks
Lee Jung-yoon, the future representative of the Nuclear Safety Division, appears on the national broadcaster KTV and discusses the ghost story of the Wolseong nuclear power plant. KTV capture
Representative Lee Jeong-yoon also argued that 1~2g of tritium per person comes from the bodies of citizens living near the nuclear power plant because of the Wolseong nuclear power plant. (Near the Wolseong nuclear power plant) there must be at least 2,000 residents in the surrounding area.”
Prof. Jeong said, “Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant produces 0.4 g of tritium per year. How does 2000 g (of tritium) come out from residents’ bodies every day?” “If only 1 g per person per year, the lethal dose is easily exceeded. Everything” said. Professor Jeong continued, “(Lee’s remarks) this is just the last word,” and “Ignorance about radiation itself.”
There was also a debate over the so-called’banana exposure’. Panels argued, “It makes no sense to compare the tritium detected at the Wolseong nuclear power plant with bananas,” and argued that “it was meant to defy the essence.” Professor Jeong said on his SNS on the 8th that “the exposure of tritium to residents living around the Wolseong nuclear power plant is the level of eating 6 bananas a year.” Prof. Jeong explained, “Radiation is emitted from potassium like tritium in a banana, and the amount of radiation emitted from it is similar to that of tritium at the Wolseong nuclear power plant.”
Prof. Jeong said about the broadcast that day, “I was talking about a lot of wrong stories… “This is just a conspiracy theory,” he criticized, saying, “Is this a national public relations broadcast or a ghost story?” Regarding Professor Jeong’s writing, a student also left a comment saying, “If I collect 2000g every day, I will not worry about fusion fuel in the future, Professor.”
Meanwhile, at the’Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant Tritium Is Really Dangerous’ conference held on the 18th, experts argued that the controversy over the high concentration of tritium at the nuclear power plant was “an unnecessary fear.” Professor Kang Kun-wook of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Seoul National University said, “It is a scientifically meaningless level,” he said. “It was a method used by politicians in the Cold War era when it caused fear in a situation that did not actually pose a danger to the human body.”
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