Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power is strengthening promotional activities such as expanding information on contaminated water on its website and at JR Tokyo Station ahead of the discharge of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
The Japanese government plans to start discharging contaminated water around spring or summer.
According to Kyodo News on the 18th, TEPCO recently added a new page titled ‘What I want to say regarding ALPS-contaminated water’ to the ‘treated water (contaminated water) portal site’ that collects various data on contaminated water from nuclear power plants.
The Japanese government explains that most of the radioactive materials, including cesium, are removed when the contaminated water is purified through ALPS. However, it is known that tritium (tritium) is not filtered out.
TEPCO claimed on its new page that “the decommissioning work of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is proceeding steadily with safety as the top priority,” and that the ALPS-contaminated water will be discharged to the sea following ensuring safety.
On this page, you can see short phrases of 18 items, such as ‘removal of radioactive substances other than tritium’ and ‘tritium does not accumulate in the body’, and 4 videos of regarding 30 seconds.
A Tokyo Electric Power official said, “There was an opinion that the information on the portal site was difficult to understand,” and “I want to inform many people regarding safety,” he told Kyodo News.
The Japanese government also aired advertisements on TV appealing for the safety of contaminated water until the end of last year.
Reporter Yumin Kim
