TEPCO begins injecting seawater into Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s drainage tunnel for contaminated water

June 06, 2023 at 20:52 PM

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company began injecting seawater into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s nuclear contaminated water drainage tunnel on the 5th local time.

[China News Agency]According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 6th, the Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan began injecting seawater into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant nuclear pollution drainage tunnel on the 5th local time.

TEPCO plans to build a subsea tunnel about 1 km long from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant near the sea to the sea, and discharge the so-called “radioactive material up to standard” nuclear contaminated water after dilution to the Pacific Ocean. TEPCO officially launched the construction of the subsea tunnel project in August last year. According to reports, the tunnel project of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant nuclear contaminated water discharge project has been basically completed, and the overall construction of the subsea tunnel is expected to be completed by the end of June.

According to reports, TEPCO began injecting seawater into the sea discharge tunnel at around 15:30 local time on the 5th, and the tunnel will be filled with about 6,000 tons of seawater during the day on the 6th.

After the launch of Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan, it has been opposed by domestic civil groups such as fishery groups. The international community has repeatedly expressed opposition and doubts to Japan’s decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea.