TOKYO (Xinhua): The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (TEPCO) is planning to build an approximately 1-km undersea tunnel to release contaminated radioactive water from the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant out to sea, local media reported Wednesday (Aug 24).
The undersea tunnel will be constructed by hollowing out bedrock on the seabed near the No 5 reactor at the Fukushima plant, Japan Today reported.
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