TOKYO: Japan is about to start the second phase of treated wastewater discharge from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, Western media reported on Thursday.
Earlier it had carried out the first phase under the safety limits between August 24 and September 11.
According to Japanese media the second phase of the discharge is expected to start at 10:30 a.m. and would continue till October 23.
7,800 tons of treated water to be released
About 7,800 tons of the treated water would be released with daily discharge of 460 tons. The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., will release the water stored in tanks after being treated through a custom purification system known as the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS).
ALPS has the ability to remove 62 kinds of radioactive substances, except tritium, which can be reduced to the international safety level through dilution.
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The Japanese government, the Fukushima prefectural government and Tokyo Electric have regularly evaluated the concentration of tritium in seawater and fish around the nuclear power plant since the start of the first discharge and recorded no abnormalities.
On Wednesday, Tokyo Electric again analyzed the concentration of tritium in the treated water.
