Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced that it will begin releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean for the fourth and final time this fiscal year, starting on the 28th.
At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, treated water containing tritium and other radioactive substances that remain after treatment of contaminated water is stored in more than 1,000 tanks, and TEPCO followed government policy by diluting the water to levels below standards. So, we started releasing them into the sea in August last year.
Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on the 26th that the last of the four releases planned for this fiscal year will begin on the 28th.
Approximately 7,800 tons are scheduled to be released over 17 days, and the total amount released this year is expected to be approximately 31,200 tons, as originally planned.
There have been no notable problems during the past three releases, and the tritium concentration in the seawater sampled around the area is well below the standard for TEPCO to voluntarily decide to stop releases.
However, in the process of treating contaminated water, a worker was temporarily hospitalized after being exposed to waste fluid containing radioactive substances in October last year, and on the 7th of this month, water containing radioactive substances leaked from a purification system, causing a series of troubles. I'm here.
TEPCO says it will "work with the utmost sense of urgency."