Japan-Nuclear-contaminated Water/Discharge

Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge tops 170,000 tons over past 3 years

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  • ID : 8495777
  • Dateline : Aug 24, 2026/File
  • Location : Japan
  • Category : Environment
  • Duration : 1'16
  • Audio Language : Nats/Part Mute
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN)
  • Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
  • Published : 2026-08-24 17:01
  • Last Modified : 2026-08-24 20:31:38
  • Version : 1
  • ID : 8495777
  • Dateline : 2026年8月24日/資料
  • Category : Environment
  • Duration : 1'16
  • Audio Language : 自然音声/一部音声なし
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN)
  • Restrictions : 中国大陸での使用は不可
  • Published : 2026-08-24 20:24
  • Last Modified : 2026-08-24 20:31:38
  • Version : 1

Japan-Nuclear-contaminated Water/Discharge

Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge tops 170,000 tons over past 3 years

Dateline : Aug 24, 2026/File

Location : Japan

Duration : 1'16

  • English
  • 日本語


FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Date Unknown (CGTN - No access to the Chinese mainland)
1. Japanese national flag

FILE: Fukushima, Japan - March 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
2. Road sign; traffic
3. Sign indicating Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
4. Various of power plant, facilities
5. Garbage processing site

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - March 10, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. Headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - Oct 26, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Security guard at gate of TEPCO

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - April 16, 2022 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Sign of TEPCO

FILE: Fukushima, Japan - Aug 27, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of staff working at computers; computer screen showing data; device in remote control room for multi-nuclide removal equipment

FILE: Tokyo, Japan - May 29, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Building of TEPCO; traffic
11. Sign of TEPCO

FILE: Fukushima, Japan - Aug 24, 2023 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. Various of sea; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant


Japan has released about 173,000 tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea in 22 rounds of ocean discharge over the past three years.

Monday marks three years since wastewater was first released from the plant. When the releases began, the tanks held 1.33 million tons of wastewater, and that amount has only been reduced by 100,000 tons, down 7 percent.

The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) plans to increase the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water starting from this fiscal year, with the goal of completing decommissioning of the plant by 2051, though it remains unclear whether the timeline could be achieved.

The latest release, also the fourth round in fiscal 2026, began on July 30 and was completed on Monday afternoon.

The newly discharged 7,888-ton wastewater contained approximately 1.3 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium, TEPCO said.

In the fiscal year that began in April, TEPCO plans to release about 62,400 tonnes of wastewater in eight rounds.

Struck by a 9-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, resulting in a level-7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.

Despite concerns and opposition from the international community, Japan unilaterally launched the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the ocean on August 24, 2023.

ID : 8495777

Published : 2026-08-24 17:01

Last Modified : 2026-08-24 20:31:38

Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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