'Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,' said one local fisherman earlier this year.
The massive storage of radioactive water has been ongoing since the 2011 tsunami disaster triggered a meltdown of the plant, but the International Atomic Energy Agency said the plan orchestrated by the Japanese government and TEPCO, the plant operator, meets safety standards.
Despite assurances, nuclear experts have said that concerns about tritium cannot be overstated. In 2020, Greenpeace International released a report warning that the contaminated water risks", "an assessment of the discharge facility by a domestic nuclear regulator is still required before a timeline is finalized to begin releasing the water—equivalent in volume to about 500 Olympic-size swimming pools.
Based on a"comprehensive" two-year assessment,"the IAEA has concluded that the approach and activities to the discharge of ALPS treated water taken by Japan are consistent with relevant international safety standards,” the agency's director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said in the foreword of a new report released alongside the decision.
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