TOKYO (AFP) – The first phase of releasing treated waste water from Fukushima that has angered China will end on Monday as planned, the stricken Japanese nuclear plant’s operator said.
TEPCO added that levels of radioactive tritium in tested seawater samples near the plant in north-east Japan were within safe limits, according to a statement late on Thursday.
Japan began on August 24 discharging into the Pacific some of the 1.34 million tonnes of waste water that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011.
Japan insists that the discharge is safe, a view backed by the United Nations (UN) atomic agency, but China banned all seafood imports from its neighbour, accusing it of treating the sea like a “sewer”.
