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Japan wonders what to do with a million tons of radioactive water

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Government slaps down the environment minister, who says Fukushima waste has to be released into the sea

Police officers wearing protective suits and masks inside the no-go zone around the nuclear plant at Fukushima Prefecture. Picture: REUTERS

The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co , is storing more than 1-million tons of contaminated water in tanks at the site of Fukushima Daiichi Plant, which was wrecked by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. The minister had stressed that this was “just one opinion” and Suga emphasised that it was not the policy of the government, which has not yet given a time frame for its final decision on what to do with the water.

 

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