3D visual explainer: How will Japan release its Fukushima wastewater?

Decades of decommissioning work remain from 2011 meltdowns

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Radioactive wastewater is stored in tanks at the Fukushima Diaiichi nuclear power plant.   © Kyodo

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is set to let treated wastewater currently stored at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant flow into the Pacific Ocean as early as August 24.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed the safety of the wastewater, and all the conditions needed for the discharge have been met.

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