TOKYO, Oct 16 — Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water into the sea, media reports said today, with a formal announcement expected to be made later this month. The decision is expected to...
Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture January 15, 2020. — Reuters pic
The disposal of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has been a longstanding problem for Japan as it proceeds with an decades-long decommissioning project. Nearly 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water are currently stored in huge tanks at the facility. “To prevent any delays in the decommissioning process, we need to make a decision quickly,” he told a news conference.newspaper reported that any such release is expected to take at around two years to prepare, as the site’s irradiated water first needs to pass through a filtration process before it can be further diluted with seawater and finally released into the ocean.
It is common practice for nuclear plants around the world to release water that contain traces of tritium into the ocean.
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