Japan Will Releasing Second Batch Of Wastewater From Next Week
Tokyo: Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August.On August 24, Japan began discharging into the Pacific some of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011.The inspections following the first release have been completed.The (second) discharge will start on October 5," TEPCO said on Thursday. China banned all Japanese seafood imports after the first release, which ended on September 11, despite Tokyo's insistence that the operation poses no risk.Russia, whose relations with Japan are also frosty, is reportedly considering following suit on a seafood ban.In the first phase around 7,800 tonnes of water were released into the Pacific out of a planned total of 1.34 million tonnes, equivalent to more than 500 Olympic swimming pools. TEPCO says that the water has been...