5 things to know about Japan’s Fukushima water release in the Pacific

Photo caption: Storage tanks for contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are near capacity. Photo credit: Philip Fong / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Geoff Brumfiel and Kat Lonsdorf. NPR – August 24, 2023.

Workers in Japan have started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plant was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake and massive tsunami, and water has been accumulating ever since. […]

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