FILE PHOTO: International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi inspects the Interim Storage Facility site where soil contaminated by the 2011 nuclear accident is being managed and treated, in Okuma town of Fukushima prefecture on February 19, 2025. - AFP
TOKYO: Sunday (Aug 24) marked two years since the release of treated water into the ocean began at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. As of Aug. 4, a total of 101,870 tonnes had been discharged into the sea, but continuous monitoring of the surrounding waters has detected no abnormalities.
Contaminated water was generated during the cooling of the melted nuclear fuel debris from the 2011 nuclear accident. It is treated to remove most radioactive substances other than tritium, then diluted with seawater and released.
