The head of the U.N. atomic agency told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima on Wednesday that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are “not scientific.” International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi … Read more
A panel of safety experts on Tuesday urged the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to communicate more quickly with the public over incidents such as last week’s leak of contaminated water. Thirteen years after the Fukushima disaster in which the plant suffered triple meltdowns following the 2011 earthquake, safety … Read more
Advertisement China has long criticized Japan over the issue of the ALPS treated water release at Fukushima. Initially, South Korea, parts of Taiwan, and South Pacific island countries were in support of China, but Japan received an IAEA mission that confirmed the safety of the treated water in July 2023, followed by a South Korean … Read more
Advertisement The operator of the devastated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, TEPCO, has begun its second release of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, despite seafood exports plummeting from Beijing’s retaliatory ban on Japanese marine products. China is a fierce critic of Japan’s discharge plan. It has maintained the release of contaminated water is … Read more
In this photo taken during the tour of the treated water dilution and discharge facility for foreign media, journalists are guided along with tanks containing treated radioactive wastewater, part of the facility for the releasing treated radioactive water to sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), … Read more
Advertisement On August 24, Japan began releasing treated but still radioactive wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. China’s government strongly criticized the move, demanding that Japan immediately halt the discharge. “China firmly opposes and strongly condemns” the release, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on August 24 in a … Read more
Advertisement Seoul office worker Kim Mijeong said she intends to stop eating seafood because she deeply mistrusts the safety of Japan’s release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea from its crippled nuclear power plant. “We should absolutely cut back on our consumption of seafood. Actually, we can’t eat it,” Kim said. “I can’t accept … Read more
Advertisement The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday – a controversial step that the government says is essential for the decades of work needed to clean up the facility that had reactor meltdowns 12 years ago. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio … Read more
Tokyo Report | Environment | East Asia Chief Executive John Lee said in a press briefing that his government would err on the side of caution amid the unprecedented planned release of wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company explains to the media about the facility to be used to release treated … Read more
Students wearing masks of, from left, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, perform during a rally to oppose Japanese government’s plan to release treated radioactive water into the sea from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, in Seoul, South Korea, … Read more