Japan to dump radioactive water

VIENNA: Japan will need to discharge a total of 11,500 tonnes of low-contaminated water into the ocean from the site of a stricken nuclear reactor, a senior Japanese nuclear official said in Vienna on Monday.

“The total amount of water is 11,500 tonnes,” Koichiro Nakamura, a deputy director general of Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told a news conference when asked how much water Japan needed to dump into the ocean. He said this was a required measure to avoid a more serious risk. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power said earlier on Monday the release would be more than 10,000 tonnes.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 5^th, 2011.