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
Protesters hold up placards depicting Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to protest against the discharge of treated Fukushima radioactive wastewater, outside the Japan general-consulate in Hong Kong, on Aug. 24, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Daniel Ceng Advertisement Japan has begun to release radioactive water … 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
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
Advertisement The United Nations nuclear chief toured Japan’s tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant Wednesday, including some of the key facilities that will release treated radioactive water into the sea, the day after his agency affirmed the safety of a contentious plan. On the coastal observation “green deck,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi observed … Read more
Tokyo Report | Environment | East Asia The controversial release of treated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is moving forward despite opposition. A South Korean fisherwoman participates in a rally against the planned release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, … Read more
Tokyo Report | Environment | East Asia Japan’s plan to release the radioactive wastewater has drawn fierce opposition from local fishing groups, as well as neighboring South Korea, China, and some Pacific Island nations. Workers at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station work among underground water storage pools on April 17, 2013. Two types of above-ground storage tanks rise … Read more
Advertisement Japan is planning to soon release a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima power plant. Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, water used to cool the crippled power plant has become contaminated, while being kept in huge storage tanks. Advanced techniques of water treatment have removed many of the radioactive substances from … Read more