Japan completes equipment check ahead of Fukushima water release

Nuclear regulator to certify gear following three-day safety inspection

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The treated water, diluted with seawater, will be pumped offshore through an undersea tunnel to a discharge port 1 kilometer from the plant site, 12 meters below the sea surface. © Kyodo

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) will soon certify the equipment to be used for the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the North Pacific, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

The authority will issue a certificate indicating completion of inspection procedures for the equipment to be used in flushing the treated water into the ocean, they said.

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