The Japan Fisheries Cooperative and local leaders have objected to plans to discharge wastewater from Fukushima into the ocean, but officials appear to be pushing ahead.
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.
TEPCO will use an Advanced Liquid Processing System to treat wastewater that has been pumped in to Fukushima to cool fuel from the melted reactors and has mixed with rainwater and groundwater since the tsunami.The system, however, is not able to remove tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, from the water. South Korean officials and fishing communities in the area have expressed concern that tritium will harm marine life in the Pacific.
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