Japan has said that the water release is safe, but some environmental activists have argued that not all the possible impacts have been studied.
China calls Japan’s decision to release contaminated water into ocean ‘extremely irresponsible’
The water, now amounting to 1.34 million tonnes, is collected, filtered and stored in about 1,000 tanks, which fill much of the plant’s grounds and will reach their capacity in early 2024.A ship sails from Onahama port in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, some 45 kilometres south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Aug. 21, 2023, ahead of a government’s plan to begin releasing treated water from the plant into the Pacific Ocean.
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