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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

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

In this Feb. 27, 2021, photo, Nuclear reactors of No. 5 and 6 look over tanks storing water that was treated but still radioactive, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Fukushima wastewater release must happen soon, Japanese PM says

Japan's new prime minister on Sunday, October 17, 2021, said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News, Politics | October 18th 2021

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