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Japan to Release 1M Tons of Fukushima Radioactive Water into the Sea in 2022

16 October 2020, 18:13 WIB
Cantika Rustandi

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Japan will release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, according to media reports in the East Asian nation.
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Japan will release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, according to media reports in the East Asian nation.(KOMPAS.COM/ROSYID A AZHAR)
Editor Cantika Rustandi

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The Yomiuri reported that the water would be diluted inside the facility before its release, with the whole process taking 30 years.

The treated radioactive water is currently kept in a thousand huge tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site, where reactors went into meltdown nearly a decade ago after the earthquake-triggered tsunami.

Plant operator TEPCO is building more tanks, but all will be full by mid-2022. 

(Writer & Editor: KH/KAF/GLE, Agence France-Presse)

Source: http://u.afp.com/3rX5 

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