Japan has started to release radioactive water from its stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking retaliation from China which suspended imports of Japanese aquatic products.
The release of the water, which is expected to take decades, comes 12 years after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Japan’s eastern seaboard.
After the plant was wrecked in March 2011, its operator Tokyo Electric Power Company cooled its reactors using seawater, which became contaminated with radioactive nuclides. The water was stored on site in more than 1,000 tanks, but Tepco has said there is no space to build more.
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