Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has given its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
discharging more than 1.2 million tons of treated wastewater will help the Tokyo Electric Power Company secure space needed to decommission the plant, where three reactors melted down in March 2011 after a tsunami.
The plan “will extensively affect many industries in the prefecture, including fisheries, that are only now recovering from the earthquake damage,”Gov. Yoshihiro Murai of Miyagi Prefecture last year after the central government proposed the discharge. TEPCO also acknowledged in 2018 that other isotopes including ruthenium, cobalt, strontium, and plutonium, “sometimes slip through the ALPS process,”“These radioactive isotopes behave differently than tritium in the ocean and are more readily incorporated into marine biota or seafloor sediments,” Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told the magazine last year.
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