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Japan: Third treated water release from Fukushima nuclear plant

Updated on: 21 November,2023 12:56 AM IST  |  Tokyo
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The discharges have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighbouring countries including China, which banned all imports of Japanese seafood

Japan: Third treated water release from Fukushima nuclear plant

Storage tanks holding radioactive water at the defunct plant. Pic/X

The release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean ended safely as planned, its operator said on Monday, as the country’s seafood producers continue to suffer from a Chinese import ban imposed after the discharges began.


Large amounts of radioactive wastewater have accumulated at the nuclear plant since it was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. It began discharging treated and diluted wastewater into the ocean on August 24 and finished releasing the third 7,800-ton batch on Monday. The process is expected to take decades.


The discharges have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighbouring countries including China, which banned all imports of Japanese seafood.


2011
Year nuclear plant was damaged by tsunami

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