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International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi attends a meeting with local officials and representatives from fishing and business groups in Iwaki, northeast of Tokyo, on March 13, 2024. (Masahide Endo/Kyodo News via AP)

Treated wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant is safe: UN atomic agency

The head of the U.N. atomic agency told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima on Wednesday that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are “not scientific.”

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | March 13th 2024

This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.(Kyodo News via AP)

China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima wastewater release

The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday — a controversial step that prompted China to ban seafood from Japan.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News, Politics | August 24th 2023

South Korean lawmakers hold banners against Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, during a rally in front of the Prime Minister's office on July 10, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan defends report on Fukushima water release plan

Japan's industry minister visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Monday to see equipment that would be used in the planned release into the sea of treated radioactive water to ensure the safety of the controversial plan, while demonstrators, including many from South Korea, rallied against it.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | July 10th 2023

A view of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant and the Dnipro river on the other side of Nikopol, Ukraine on Aug, 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

UN asks Russia to leave Ukraine nuclear plant

The U.N. atomic agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday, September 16, 2022, calling on Moscow to immediately end its occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, where shelling of the facility and nearby areas in recent weeks heightened fears of a possible radiation disaster.

By Joanna Kozlowska | News, Politics | September 16th 2022

Ukrainian servicemen, funeral ceremony, Georgiy Plisak, Lutsk, Ukraine,

Russians pull out of Chernobyl as Ukraine braces for more attacks

Russian troops left the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site early Friday after returning control to the Ukrainians, authorities said, as residents in parts of eastern Ukraine braced for renewed attacks and awaited blocked supplies of food and other humanitarian relief.

By Nebi Qena & Yuras Karmanau | News, Politics | April 1st 2022

UN nuclear watchdog chief in Ukraine to organize technical safety support

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's director-general arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, for talks with senior government officials on delivering “urgent technical assistance” to ensure the safety of the country’s nuclear facilities, the agency said.

By Associated Press | News, Politics | March 29th 2022

In this image made from video, head of the IAEA Lydie Evrad, speaks to media via video conf. concerning the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged in the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, on Sept. 9, 2021. (Foreign Press Center Japan via AP)

Debate continues over safety of planned contaminated water release from Fukushima

Objective, science-based monitoring is the key to safely carrying the planned release of treated but still radioactive water at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a key International Atomic Energy Agency official said on Thursday, September 9, 2021.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News, Politics | September 9th 2021

In this Feb. 27, 2021, file photo, the Pacific Ocean looks over nuclear reactor units of No. 3, left, and 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japan adopts plan to release Fukushima nuclear water into ocean

Japan’s government adopted an interim plan on Tuesday that it hopes will win support from fishermen and other concerned groups for a planned release into the sea of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News, Politics | August 24th 2021