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IAEA supports plan to release Fukushima water

The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency offered support for Japan’s decision to release treated radioactive wastewater from Fukushima into the ocean in 2023.

Water tanks with contaminated water in front of the reactor buildings at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi
Water tanks with contaminated water in front of the reactor buildings at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi (AN/Susanna Loof)

VIENNA (AN) — The United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency offered support for the decision by Japan’s government to release more than 1 million tons of treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean starting in 2023.

Releasing the water from storage tanks "is an unavoidable issue that needs to be resolved" to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant badly damaged in the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday.

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