International Desk: Japan will release more than 1 million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea this year. However, these waters have been specially purified to a certain extent to eliminate the harmful aspects. News: BBC.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said, ‘This water is now safe to discharge into the sea. It will not harm the environment.’ But the IAEA also said that objections are coming from the coastal countries of the sea.
Japanese Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the extraction process could begin sometime this spring or summer. We are now awaiting a detailed report from the IAEA. Every day the plant produces 100 cubic meters of contaminated water, which is a combination of groundwater, seawater and water used to cool the reactors. Then it is filtered and stored in the tank. Tanker capacity is more than 13 lakh cubic meters.”
The 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan’s Fukushima is considered the worst since the Chernobyl disaster in Russia. An earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale and the resulting tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Fukushima’s radioactivity verification is ongoing. But this is time-consuming, experts say, and could take as long as four decades.
