{"id":4070,"date":"2024-04-19T01:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2024-04-19T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:15:27","slug":"japan-starts-5th-ocean-discharge-of-fukushima-nuclear-tainted-wastewater-despite-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"Japan starts 5th ocean discharge of Fukushima nuclear-tainted wastewater despite opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan on Friday started the fifth-round of release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u56fe\u7247-11-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u56fe\u7247-11-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u56fe\u7247-11-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u56fe\u7247-11-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/abovecloud.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/\u56fe\u7247-11.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite opposition among local fishermen, residents as well as backlash from the international community, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plant&#8217;s operator, started discharging the radioactive wastewater in the morning, the first round in fiscal 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to the previous four rounds, about 7,800 tons of the wastewater, which still contains tritium, a radioactive substance, will be discharged until May 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TEPCO analyzed the water stored in the tank scheduled for release, and found that the concentrations of all radioactive substances other than tritium were below the national release standards, while the concentration of tritium that cannot be removed will be diluted with seawater, Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TEPCO will measure the concentration of radioactive substances such as tritium in the surrounding waters every day during the period to investigate the effects of the release, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water release began in August 2023, and a total of about 31,200 tons of the water was released in four rounds in fiscal 2023, which ended in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fiscal 2024, TEPCO plans to discharge a total of 54,600 tons of contaminated water in seven rounds, which contains approximately 14 trillion becquerels of tritium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan on Friday started the fifth-round of release of n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[1522,1284,1620],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-highlights","tag-japan","tag-nuclear","tag-ocean"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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