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Fukushima-Daiichi / Japan’s Nuclear Regulator Approves Plan For Water Release

By David Dalton
22 July 2022

Water was largely used to cool the three damaged reactor cores at destroyed facility
Japan’s Nuclear Regulator Approves Plan For Water Release
The water has been stored in tanks onsite, but space is running out. Courtesy Dean Calma/IAEA.
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved a plan to release into the ocean water from the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station to the north of Tokyo, the government said on Friday.

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