By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer
May 1, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Storage tanks, seen here from aboard an Asahi Shimbun helicopter, hold contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 12. (Reina Kitamura)
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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