By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer
May 1, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Storage tanks hold contaminated water treated with the ALPS multi-nuclide removal equipment at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Sept. 7, 2020. Each tank has a capacity of 1,200 tons of water, officials said. (Keitaro Fukuchi)
The plan to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea will likely not resolve the chronic problem of contaminated water accumulating there, Asahi Shimbun calculations show. [Read More]
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