Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP
Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP
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Greenpeace slams Japan’s plan to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the ocean

  • The decision by the government and the tsunami-devastated plant’s operator to release contaminated water into the Pacific was ‘driven by short-term cost-cutting’, a new study has found

Topic |   Japan
Julian Ryall
Julian Ryall

Updated: 11:15pm, 22 Jan, 2019

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Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP
Radioactive groundwater continues to seep into the basement levels of three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Photo: AFP
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