Russia: Fish caught near the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge site currently meet safety standards

Published Sep 19, 2024

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The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) started discharging contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean on August 24, 2023, despite storing nearly all of its total storage capacity. The ALPS system is used to filter out 62 radioactive elements, but not tritium. In fiscal 2023, TEPCO discharged 31,200 tons of nuclear wastewater, with plans to increase this to 54,600 tons in fiscal 2024. Both China and Russia have imposed restrictions on the import of Japanese seafood and fish products due to this decision.

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Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, began discharging contaminated water from the damaged reactors and treated by the ALPS system into the ocean on August 24, 2023. The system can filter out 62 radioactive elements in the contaminated water, except tritium. The wastewater is stored in giant storage tanks inside the nuclear power plant. So far, nearly 90% of the total storage capacity of 1.37 million tons has been filled. In fiscal 2023, a total of 31,200 tons of nuclear wastewater with a radioactive tritium concentration of 5 trillion becquerels was discharged. In fiscal 2024, TEPCO plans to discharge 54,600 tons of low-level ...

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