Japan starts third Fukushima water release

The utility began discharging 540 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of wastewater in late August.

TOKYO: Japan on Thursday began releasing a third batch of treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, a process that has seen China and Russia ban seafood from the country in response.

The facility was running out of space to build more water tanks, and Tepco needs to clear the area for the much more hazardous task of removing radioactive fuel and rubble from three stricken reactors. Experts from the IAEA and other agencies, including those from China, have surveyed the environmental impact of the release, including by taking water and fish samples.

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