Explainer-More nuclear challenges await Japan after Fukushima water release


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Aug 2023

Activists attend a protest against Japan's plan to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, at the national assembly in Seoul, South Korea, August 24, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

TOKYO (Reuters) - Twelve years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has started to release treated radioactive water into the sea, a key step in the process of decommissioning the stricken plant, but much tougher tasks lie ahead, such as molten fuel removal.

Here are the challenges facing the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) as they try to draw a line by the middle of the century under the world's worst nuclear accident since Chornobyl.

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