A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency has visited the site at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant where more than a million tons of treated radioactive waste water are to be released into the ocean.
In this photo provided by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings , members of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also known as IAEA, take a tour to inspect the site of Fukushima nuclear plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. The damaged Unit 1 reactor, back, and the exhaust stack shared with the Unit 1 and 2 reactors are seen in the background. The exhaust stack has gotten its upper half cut off due to safety concerns.
The water is being stored in about 1,000 tanks at the damaged plant which must be removed so that facilities can be built for its decommissioning, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings says. The tanks are expected to reach their capacity of 1.37 million tons later this year. The IAEA team met this week with government and TEPCO officials and visited the Fukushima plant, where they saw the site of the planned discharge and monitored the collection of water samples from tanks and other areas, it said. The samples will be analyzed at IAEA labs.
The water discharge plan has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, local residents and neighbors China and South Korea. Fukushima residents worry that the reputation of their agricultural and fishing products will be further tarnished by the water release.
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