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Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has begun releasing the second batch of treated water at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. During the latest discharge, expected to last about 17 days, some 7800 cubic metres of treated water will be diluted and released into the sea.

Date: Friday, 06 October 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Release-of-second-batch-of-Fukushima-water-begins

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force assessing the safety of Japan’s planned discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has issued its fifth report. This is part of a series to be released under the IAEA’s multi-year safety review of the proposed Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) treated water discharge. It focuses on Japan’s domestic regulatory review of the water release and includes observations of the Task Force mission to assess Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) activities, which took place in January.

Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-issues-fifth-report-on-fukushima-water-discharge-10831722

The effects on the public and the environment of the discharge of treated water at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea will be minimal, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said today. The company has released the results of a radiological impact assessment using methodology developed in accordance with internationally recognised methods.

Date: Thursday, 18 November 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Discharge-to-sea-will-have-minimal-impact-Tepco-sa

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) estimates that JPY1370 billion or $12.6 billion will be required over the next 12 years to remove melted nuclear fuel from reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Date: Friday, 03 April 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstepco-reports-on-fuel-removal-and-contaminated-water-disposal-7854118

Radioactive caesium concentrations in marine products caught offshore in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture were less than the reference value of 100 becquerel/kg during the fiscal year ending March 2016. It was the first time since the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident that the reference value was not exceeded in any item, local authorities said. According to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (Jaif) the reference value was provisionally set at 500bq/kg for common food items in March 2011 and reduced to the 100bq/kg in April 2012. Radioactive caesium concentrations in all 8,438 products tested were less than this level, Jaif said. The value for common foods issued by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), a source for international food standards, is 1,000bq/kg. The authorities said caesium levels at Fukushima were below the limit of detection in 7,702 products, accounting for 91.27% of the total. This was the first time more than 90% of the products have been below the detection level. The sea area subject to the prefecture’s examinations is a 20km area from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear station. The area inside the port is not included in the examinations. Jaif said that as of 25 July 2016, shipments of 21 kinds of fish are still suspended by the national government.

Date: Tuesday, 09 August 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscontamination-of-fukushima-fish-below-reference-level-4974426

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