No radioactive contaminants have been found in food imported from Japan since 2013, S’pore authorities say.
FUKUSHIMA – Tanks full of seafood are not what one usually expects to find at a nuclear power station.
The fishing industry in Fukushima had expressed worries that consumers would be afraid of consuming seafood in the area. Radioactivity concentrations in the tissues of marine organisms are also monitored regularly, with the results published on Tepco’s website. Yellow tanks house fish reared in diluted ALPS-treated water, while blue tanks house fish reared in regular seawater. ST PHOTO: SAMUEL RUBY
More than a decade since the plant was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the 2011 nuclear disaster, the plant still bears visible reminders of the incident. Looking over the compound from a meeting room where we were briefed on safety protocols, we could see that most of the campus was covered with huge vats of blue, white and grey, which are used for storing the treated water.
Mr Junichi Matsumoto, Tepco’s chief officer for ALPS-treated water management, said: “Storing this treated water on site was always a stopgap measure – there is space for only so many tanks. That is why the Japanese government, after thorough consultation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, made the decision to discharge it.”The Japanese authorities requested technical assistance from the IAEA to monitor and review those plans.
The Fukushima plant is not the only nuclear station to discharge tritiated water – or water that contains tritium. The IAEA also independently monitors the tritium concentrations in each batch of treated water discharged by the nuclear power station.
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