Storage tanks for contaminated water stand at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tomorrow marks a decade since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. But TEPCO has more than 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water sitting in storage tanks that are very quickly running out of capacity. And one of the choices on the table for Japanese authorities is hugely unpopular and potentially devastating: Release more than 1 million tonnes of the treated radioactive water into the sea. An abandoned business office in the exclusion zone in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 10, 2021 06:27 UTC