Over 70 per cent of Fukushima waste water fails discharge limits and needs more treatment, says China’s nuclear watchdog

July 5, 2023 Media Library

Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, is pictured on Monday, July 3. Japan is set to win approval to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean. Photo: Bloomberg

South China Morning Post

Related posts

• 

  March 11, 2026 Media Library 0

  Webinar | ‘Two sessions’ 2026: how will China pivot its economy under Trump’s pressure?

  China’s most critical annual political gathering, the “two sessions”, is particularly significant this year as Beijing...

• 

  March 11, 2026 Media Library 0

  Might makes right? Rules‑based order on trial in Europe as Iran war deepens divide

  As the war in Iran tips the global order further into chaos, a potentially existential rupture...

• 

  March 11, 2026 Media Library 0

  China’s size, strength insulates its energy security amid geopolitical shocks: lawmaker

  Despite its heavy reliance on oil and gas imports, China’s “national strength” insulates its energy security...