TOKYO: Japan is set to conduct seven rounds of discharge of contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, starting from April.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima facility, plans to discharge 54600 tons of wastewater from April 2024 to March of next year over seven rounds.
Each round is expected to involve the release of some 78-hundred tons of wastewater, similar to the previous rounds.
TEPCO carried out three rounds of discharge in 2023, between August and November. It is set to start the fourth round in late February.
Previously, TEPCO had revealed plans to release a total of 31200 tons of wastewater between 2023 and March 2024.
Fukushima facility operator postpones plans
Meanwhile, the plant operator decided to postpone plans to begin removing debris on a test basis from the plant’s unit II reactor from before March to October.
The delay comes after TEPCO, which was planning to use a remote-controlled robotic arm for the debris removal activity, found that the pipe through which the robotic arm was to be inserted was packed with sediment.
