Tanks containing treated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are likely to reach capacity around the fall of 2023, later than the initially predicted spring of next year, as the pace of the accumulation of radioactive water slowed in fiscal 2021.
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force exchanges opinions with the Japanese government on Japan s plan to discharge treated water containing tritium into the sea from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Minister Aso repeats claim that treated Fukushima water is good to drink
Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso repeated his claim Friday that it is safe to drink treated radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after China asked him to personally prove it. I m sure that the water will be diluted so that (the tritium concentration) is one-seventh of the level safe for drinking water under the World Health Organization s guideline, Aso told a press conference, without responding directly to the proposal made by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Wednesday. Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 16, 2021. (Kyodo)