FUKUSHIMA: In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant's operators and Japan's government: Tank after tank of water contaminated with radioactive elements.
TEPCO has been struggling with the problem for years, taking various measures to limit the amount of groundwater entering the site. Tanks of water contaminated with radioactive elements are a million-tonne headache for the operators of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and for Japan's government.
There is little evidence that it causes harm to humans except in very high concentrations and the IAEA argues that properly filtered Fukushima water could be diluted with seawater and then safely released into the ocean without causing environmental problems.But those assurances are of little comfort to many in the region, particularly Fukushima's fishing industry which, like local farmers, has suffered from the outside perception that food from the region is unsafe.
The government is sensitive to fears that people inside Japan and further afield will view any discharge as sending radioactive waste into the sea.
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