The release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) into the sea will begin on August 24 if weather and sea conditions allow, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday.
Should weather and ocean conditions cooperate, Japan will start releasing what will ultimately be more than a million tons of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean.
TOKYO, July 5 The Japanese government is looking to start the release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as early as in August after.
A little radioactive water in the Pacific? Not that big a deal, at least according to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, which gave the OK Tuesday for Japan's Fukushima.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has approved a plan for Japan to release a bunch of radioactive water from the Fukushima disaster into the Pacific Ocean.