TEPCO plans to dump water from Fukushima plant after cleaning it […]
[Tepco] said Thursday it plans to dump contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean after removing radioactive substances to reduce contamination to legally permissible levels.
[…] it fears eventually running out of capacity to store radioactive water that continues to accumulate at the plant […]
Still, the utility acknowledged that it needs to win approval of local governments and other parties concerned in actually discharging the water into the ocean. An official said, “Nothing specific has been decided at this moment.” […]
“It also contains nuclear fuel — There will be uranium in that water and plutonium in that water as well” -Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen