The water is filtered to remove all radioactive elements except tritium, which is at safe levels.
Japan has begun dumping a second batch of purified radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has already started the process, the Japan Times reports.
The company said it completed a review of the water discharge system after the first cycle, which ran from Aug. 24 to Sept. 11, and found no reason to change procedures. In the first round, 7,788 tons of purified water were released into the ocean, stored in 10 reservoirs on the territory of the station.
The second cycle will last 17 days, during which it is planned to release about 7,800 tons of purified water from 10 reservoirs in the ocean. The water is filtered to remove all radioactive elements except tritium, which is at safe levels.
Releasing all the water to the ocean is expected to take three decades, after which the nuclear power plant, which suffered a tsunami in March 2011, is planned to be fully decommissioned.
It will be recalled that on August 24, Japan began releasing water from the destroyed Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, which caused protests in Japan and neighboring countries, and also prompted China to ban the import of water products from Japan. Russia is also currently considering a ban on Japanese seafood imports.
On August 27, Japan’s Ministry of Environmental Protection said that tests of seawater near the Fukushima nuclear power plant did not show any radioactivity.
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