Japan could release Fukushima radioactive water into environment Safety of Fukushima waste water focus of sea release debate But local fishers and residents have always voiced strong objection of releasing the water into the sea due to fears consumers would shun seafood caught nearby, and contend tha...
The operator is constructing more filtering facilities on the shore and a kilometre-long (0.6-mile) underwater pipe to release treated water over several decades. "We don't plan to release the water all in one go, it will be a maximum of 500 tonnes a day of the total 1.37 million tonn...
In April last year, the government of Japan decided to release about 1.25 million tonnes of waste water into the ocean in 30 years starting in 2023. The contaminated water contains radioactive cesium, strontium, tritium and other radioactive substances. The move drew the ire of local fishermen....
The release begins more than 12 years after the March 2011 nuclear meltdowns, caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Japan The pump that was activated sends the first batch of the diluted, treated water from a mixing pool to a secondary pool, where the water is then discharged ...
Japan will release more than a million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea in a decades-long operation, reports said Friday, despite strong opposition from local fishermen.
Environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, oppose the release. They have proposed long-term storage of the water by solidification, as used at the Savannah River waste repository in the U.S. Attention should be paid to the words published on Pasifika Environews website, a geojournal...
TEPCO executive Junichi Matsumoto, center, who is in charge of the treated water release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, announces that the first batch of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater will be released into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday from the p...
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.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s nuclear regulator on Friday approved details of a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea next year.
about two months' time, said Deputy Director General Lydie Evrard, Head of the IAEA Department of Nuclear Safety and Security. IAEA will also carry out follow-up missions to Japan this year and next, and a comprehensive report with conclusions will be published before the water release begins....