TOKYO: The release of wastewater from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant was suspended on Friday (Mar 15) following an earthquake, its operator said while stressing that the move was precautionary.
An aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which started releasing treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on Aug 24, 2023. A 5.8-magnitude jolt struck off the coast of the northeastern Fukushima region, home to the plant wrecked by a tsunami in 2011, at 12.14am on Friday , the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
But"to be on the safe side, we have suspended the operations of the facilities in accordance with the pre-defined operational procedures", it said in the early hours of Friday. No leak of radiation was detected after TEPCO finished necessary checks while"readings from monitoring posts remain normal", he added.
Last August, TEPCO began releasing into the Pacific Ocean around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of wastewater that has collected at Fukushima Daiichi since the 2011 accident, one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
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