TEPCO Concludes Third Round of Fukushima Treated Water Discharge

The third round of discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea concluded Monday. The company released about 7,800 tons of processed water about 1 kilometer off the coast. This is part of the plan to release about 31,200 tons of water treated through an advanced liquid processing system in four rounds to be completed in the current fiscal year. China and Russia have maintained restrictions on marine product imports from Japan since the start of the discharge in August. TEPCO aims to dispose of the 1.34 million tons of water in the tanks over the next three decades.

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., has completed the third round of discharging treated radioactive water into the sea. The company released about 7,800 tons of processed water about 1 kilometer off the coast, and plans to conduct another round in the current fiscal year. Russia and China have maintained restrictions on marine product imports from Japan since the start of the discharge in August. TEPCO aims to dispose of the 1.34 million tons of water from the tanks over the next three decades. Since the beginning of the discharge, TEPCO has detected up to 22 becquerels of tritium per 1 liter of seawater in samples taken from areas near the outlet, and it is far below the World Health Organization's limit of 10,000 becquerels for drinking water.