Japan’s authorities were officially allowed to merge into the ocean water from the Fukushima-1 emergency NPP, purified from most dangerous radioactive substances. This on Tuesday, April 13, reports TASS with reference to national public television.
According to the television channel, the government decided at the meeting of the heads of interested ministries and departments led by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
In this case, the process of preparing for discharge into the ocean water will take about two years. It is planned to prepare and check additional equipment, as well as to carry out the necessary work.
Now in steel tanks on the territory “Fukushima-1” more than 1.25 million tons of water, containing tritium isotopes, which can not be removed technically.
In 2011, an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude was occurring in Japan, as a result of which more than 18 thousand people were killed, and an accident occurred at Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. On February 13, 2021, it was reported that in the northeast of Japan there was a powerful earthquake. The epicenter was recorded in the Fukushima Prefecture area. The earthquake magnitude was 7.1. The representative of the National Meteorological Administration of Japan said that the underground shocks were aftershock 2011.