'The space freed up will be used to store highly contaminated water now spilling out into the ocean'

摘要

per year, a quarter of the average annual dose, it claims. TEPCO wants to use the space that this frees up to store more highly contaminated water which is spilling out into the ocean through a leak from unit 2 at the plant (see page 10). South Korea has expressed concern over the plan but Japan's foreign minister, Takeaki Matsumoto, says the dumping does not violate the 1986 Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident.