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...
The government and plant operator say the release is an unavoidable part of its decommissioning and will be safely carried out, but the plan faces opposition in and outside Japan.
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...
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 an initial step in a daunting decades-long decommissioning process. Juni...
The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly.
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 ...
I think that there is no need to release treated water into the ocean, so I am against the government's decision. The Japanese government has stated that the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant requires the release of treated water, and the government...
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 ...
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 ...
TEPCO estimates that the amount of water that leaked was approximately 5.5 tons, which may contain 22 billion becquerels of radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium, the report said. Most of the leaked water appeared to hav...