Japan plans to release more than 1.3 million tons of water with small quantities of radioactive tritium over some three decades.
Updated Aug. 24, 2023 3:33 am ETBusiness owners and neighboring countries are worried about Japan’s plan to release water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific this week after getting the green light from the U.N.’s nuclear agency. Photo: Yonhap News/Zuma Press
TOKYO—Japan began discharging slightly radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday, prompting China to suspend the import of all Japanese fish and other aquatic products.Continue reading your article with
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