Second round of Fukushima wastewater release to start next week

Tepco says that the water has been filtered of all radioactive elements except tritium, which is within safe levels. PHOTO: AFP

TOKYO (AFP): Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August.

On August 24, Japan began discharging into the Pacific some of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011.