Officials at Tokyo Electric Power company or tepco say the advanced system is the key to their plans to purify the contaminated water. The company aims to decontaminate thousands of tons of stored wastewater by march 2015. Eng year in they say chemicals may have corroded their system so they ep enforced it with corrosionproof material. Workers will begin a test run of one of the systems on friday. They plan to start the remaining two systems by mid november. The filters not remove all radioactive isotopes but they expect they can treat 500 tons of contaminated water every day. Tepco is struggling to deal the radioactive buildup of water but on the other side of the country it faces a different problem. We have this report from the Largest Nuclear power plant. The utility is trying to persuade the governor to support restarting two of the seven reactors. Tepco says they want their approval for government safety checks to the reactors. The two men met on wednesday. Wednesdays meeting. Th
Japanese officials are shoring up their computer defenses as hackers go after top secrets. People who hoped to see the president s of the u. S. And iran meet at the u. N. General assembly this week have been disappointed. The muchtalked about encounter between president obama and rouhani failed to materialize. However, the two countries are maintaining their momentum. Their Foreign Ministers are due to meet on thursday for the first time in six years. A highranking u. S. Official has revealed the u. S. Tried to arrange a meeting between obama and rouhani. It would have been the first president ial encounter since the severing of diplomatic ties more than 30 years ago. But the source said iran declined on grounds it would be too complicated. Irans Nuclear Program continues to dominate the relationship. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry and Iranian Foreign minister Muhammad Zarif are scheduled to attend multinational talks on the issue. Theyll be joined by five cabinet members of the u
Japan's Fukushima region faces renewed scrutiny as treated radioactive water is released into the Pacific. Amid global attention, local residents express concerns about the potential impact on their lives.
People in northeastern Japan, especially fishermen, fear that the controversial decision to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant will inflict new hardships on them.
Officials are urging locals to avoid any swimming activity in the area as Fukushima is set to release over a million cubic meters of treated water from its nuclear plant. Read more here.