Japan to start Fukushima water release as early as late August: Report

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Company explains to the media about the facility to be used to release treated radioactive water at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima. - AP

TOKYO (Reuters): Japan plans to start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean as early as late August, Japan's Asahi Shimbun daily reported on Monday (Aug 7), citing unidentified government sources.

The release will most likely come shortly after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in the United States next week and explains to them how the water release will be safe, it said.