Japan has started dumping the water from the Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo into the sea.
The utility responsible for the plant, Tokyo Electric Power has been filtering it to remove isotopes, leaving only tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that is hard to separate.did not contain detectable levels of tritiumSouth Korea has said it sees no scientific problems with the water release but environmental activists argue that all possible impacts have not been studied.
Japan says it needs to start releasing the water as storage tanks holding about 1.3 million metric tons of it - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools - are full. The water has been distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The first discharge of 7,800 cubic metres - equivalent to about three Olympic pools - will take place over about 17 days.
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