The International Atomic Energy Agency — the UN's atomic watchdog — has said the release meets international safety standards with a 'negligible radiological impact.'
Japan has begun discharging wastewater from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean — the first of four releases planned before March 2024.
The International Atomic Energy Agency , the UN's atomic watchdog, has approved the release and found it complies with international safety standards. Japan announced in 2021 that it would release millions of tons of nuclear wastewater into the sea via a pipe stretching 0.6 miles out from the coast. The water was treated with a special filtering system that removes all the radioactive elements except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is very difficult to eliminate. Tritium has a half-life of 12.33 years, and as it decays it converts into helium.
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