Japan to dump Fukushima nuclear wastewater in Pacific Ocean within months

Experts warn Japan is months away from dumping more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste on Australia's doorstep


More than a million tonnes of radioactive wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima power plant in Japan will be dumped in the Pacific Ocean, and experts warn the first release is “imminent”.

In 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi plant, unleashing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. ---More...

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