Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to add 23 storage tanks with a total capacity of about 30,000 tons for the processed radioactive water accumulating at its crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts have confirmed that tritium concentration in the 12th batch of diluted ...

Just a short drive up the coast at the Fukushima Dai’ichi site sit dozens and dozens of light blue tanks, each filled with water containing radioactive substances that plant operator Tepco and ...

This is a "transitional storage facility" in Fukushima Prefecture ... And besides this road, there’s a river that carries water for farming—for the rice fields, a town, and a school.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a series ... Japan is now looking to dump the treated radioactive waste water into the sea, stirring debates and boycotts at home and abroad.

Robots will begin moving sandbags that were used to absorb radiation-contaminated water after ... a temporary storage site outside the buildings, the spokesman said. Three of Fukushima's six ...

The disposal of Fukushima’s contaminated water poses profound and potentially catastrophic risks to the environment and therefore seafood, according to scientists. In August, 2023, the Tokyo ...

This was in response to Tokyo’s decision to release treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Tokyo plans to release 1.32 million metric tonnes of ...

The water was used to cool the fuel rods of Fukushima Daiichi after it melted down in an accident caused by a huge tsunami in 2011 that battered Japan’s eastern coast.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said it has completed the ocean discharge of treated water containing radioactive tritium from its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant for fiscal 2024 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company said it has started discharging treated and diluted water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ... or 98 percent of the plant's storage capacity. Ahead of the release ...