{"id":410600,"date":"2021-04-14T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=410600"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T03:44:20","slug":"japan-to-dump-over-1-mn-tonnes-of-treated-fukushima-water-into-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-to-dump-over-1-mn-tonnes-of-treated-fukushima-water-into-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to dump over 1 mn tonnes of treated Fukushima water into sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s government decided Tuesday to start releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukus\u00adhima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years \u2014 an option fiercely opposed by local fishermen and residents.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, long speculated but delayed for years due to safety concerns and protests, came at a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option. <\/p>\n<p>The accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant&#8217;s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., says its storage capacity will be full late next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s government decided Tuesday to start releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukus\u00adhima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years \u2014 an option fiercely opposed by local fishermen and residents. The decision, long speculated but delayed for years due to safety concerns and protests, came at a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option. The accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}