Japan has reportedly decided to release huge amounts of treated radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea as the complex is running short of storage containers for the contaminated water. Greenpeace, a non-governmental environment organization, warned that radi...
TEPCO executive Junichi Matsumoto says the release began Thursday with the least radioactive water to ensure safety. After samples are analyzed in final testing, the water is sent through a thin black pipe to a coastal area where it is diluted with hundreds of times its volume in sea...
The Japanese operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has decided to release treated radioactive water from the ruined facility in an area roughly 1 kilometer offshore from the site, reported Nikkei. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings plans to discharge the treated radioactive water through a...
South Korean activists have alsoprotestedthe plan, although Seoul hasconcludedfrom its own study that the water release meets international standards and said it respects the IAEA's assessment. Japan says the water will be filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, an isotope ...
The head of a U.N. nuclear agency task force assessing the safety of Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the wreaked Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea said Friday that Japanese regulators have shown ...
An official in charge of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says the upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea more than 12 years after the reactors' meltdown marks "a milestone," but is still only ...
A Japanese government agency has proposed releasing radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the environment, as storage space runs out. The plant suffered a meltdown about nine years ago after it was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami. About a million tonnes of contami...
Protesters on Thursday took to the streets in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to denounce the Japanese government's insistence on pursuing its plan to dump radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.&n
TOKYO, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Monday said it would be safe to release radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Japan's industry minister said that releasing contaminated water into the ocean would create a "significantly small" health risk to ...
Over the past years, fishermen in neighboring countries have staged several rallies, calling for immediate stop to the "grave criminal act" of releasing radioactive water into the sea. Within Japan, local civic groups have organized protests outside the government house of Fukushima Prefecture.Japan...