TOKYO—Japan will release water from the stricken Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday, 12 years after one
Japan insists that the gradual discharge of the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of water from the site in northeast Japan, announced by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday, is safe.
TEPCO says the water will be diluted and filtered before release to remove all radioactive substances except tritium, levels of which are far below dangerous levels. On Tuesday, the IAEA said its staff would be on site for the start of the discharge and beyond and will publish “real-time and near real-time monitoring data”.
But President Yoon Suk Yeol’s government, taking political risks at home, has sought to improve long-frosty relations with Japan and has not objected to the plan. In Hong Kong, a major market for Japanese seafood exports, leader John Lee called the discharge “irresponsible” and instructed authorities on Tuesday to “immediately activate… import control measures to protect food safety and public health”.
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