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Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Bbc japan nuclear water - 12 years after a nuclear meltdown. That's despite China slapping a ban on Japanese seafood and protests in Japan itself and South Korea. The UN's atomic regulator says the water will have "negligible" radiological impact on people and the environment. An earthquake followed by a tsunami in wrecked the nuclear power plant, destroying its cooling system and causing reactor cores to overheat and contaminate water within the facility with highly radioactive material, bbc japan nuclear water.

Japan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbours. The decision comes weeks after the UN's nuclear watchdog approved the plan. Some 1. The water will be released over 30 years after being filtered and diluted. Authorities will request for the plant's operator to "promptly prepare" for the disposal to start on 24 August if weather and sea conditions are appropriate, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting. Mr Kishida had visited the plant on Sunday, prompting speculation the release was imminent. The government has said that releasing the water is a necessary step in the lengthy and costly process of decommissioning the plant, which sits on the country's east coast, about km miles north-east of the capital Tokyo.

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Japan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbours. The decision comes weeks after the UN's nuclear watchdog approved the plan. Some 1. The water will be released over 30 years after being filtered and diluted. Authorities will request for the plant's operator to "promptly prepare" for the disposal to start on 24 August if weather and sea conditions are appropriate, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting. Mr Kishida had visited the plant on Sunday, prompting speculation the release was imminent. The government has said that releasing the water is a necessary step in the lengthy and costly process of decommissioning the plant, which sits on the country's east coast, about km miles north-east of the capital Tokyo. Japan has been collecting and storing the contaminated water in tanks for more than a decade, but space is running out.

Bbc japan nuclear water

Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean - 12 years after a nuclear meltdown. That's despite China slapping a ban on Japanese seafood and protests in Japan itself and South Korea. The UN's atomic regulator says the water will have "negligible" radiological impact on people and the environment. An earthquake followed by a tsunami in wrecked the nuclear power plant, destroying its cooling system and causing reactor cores to overheat and contaminate water within the facility with highly radioactive material. Since the disaster, power plant company Tepco has been pumping in water to cool down the reactors' fuel rods. This means every day the plant produces contaminated water, which is stored in more than 1, tanks, enough to fill more than Olympic swimming pools. Japan says it needs the land occupied by the tanks to build new facilities to safely decommission the plant. It has also raised concerns about the consequences if the tanks were to collapse in a natural disaster. The first release is one of four, scheduled between now and the end of March The entire process will take at least 30 years.

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Environmental activists have protested against Fukushima nuclear plant's waste water release into the ocean. And fishermen have told the BBC they fear their reputation has been permanently damaged and worry for their jobs. Image source, Getty Images. The entire process will take at least 30 years. More on this story. Plant operators Tepco have been filtering the water to remove more than 60 radioactive substances but the water will not be entirely radiation-free as it will still contain tritium and carbon radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and carbon that cannot be easily removed from water. And marine biologist Robert Richmond, from the University of Hawaii, told the BBC: "We've seen an inadequate radiological, ecological impact assessment that makes us very concerned that Japan would not only be unable to detect what's getting into the water, sediment and organisms, but if it does, there is no recourse to remove it The problem is being caused by a radioactive element of hydrogen called tritium, which can't be removed from the contaminated water because there is no technology to do it. Instead, the water is diluted. Image source, EPA. Japan is releasing waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean after receiving a green light from the IAEA. Related Topics.

Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing.

And physicist David Bailey, who runs a French laboratory measuring radioactivity, agreed, adding: "The key thing is how much tritium is there. There have been oppositions in China and South Korea to Japan's release of the contaminated water. Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean - 12 years after a nuclear meltdown. The problem is being caused by a radioactive element of hydrogen called tritium, which can't be removed from the contaminated water because there is no technology to do it. Japan is "putting its own self-interest over the long-term well-being of all humankind" with the release of waste water, Mr Wang said. But many people who are exposed to the Pacific Ocean every day have concerns. Experts say the waste water could be carried by ocean currents, particularly the cross-Pacific Kuroshio current. Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace East Asia, says tritium can have "direct negative effects" on plants and animals if ingested, including "reduced fertility" and "damage to cell structures, including DNA". Fukushima nuclear disaster Radioactive waste Japan Nuclear power Environment. South Korea's government, however, has endorsed the plan, and has accused protesters of scaremongering. Discharge from Japan nuclear plant safe, tests show. Facts are up against fear in Fukushima. American professor Emily Hammond, an expert in energy and environmental law with George Washington University, said: "The challenge with radionuclides such as tritium is that they present a question that science cannot fully answer; that is, at very low levels of exposure, what can be counted as 'safe'?