The Japanese government announced on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, that it will begin releasing more than one million tons of radioactive water treated from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant on August 24th.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): This plan, which was approved two years ago by the Japanese government as a vital measure to decommission the power plant used by the Tokyo Electric Company, was criticized by local fishing groups.
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday morning: "I have asked the Tokyo Electric Power Company to quickly prepare to drain the water in accordance with the plan approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and it is expected to release the water if weather conditions permit." It will start on August 24.
 
According to the Tokyo Electric Company, this water contains about 190 becquerels of tritium per liter, which is less than the permissible drinking limit of the World Health Organization. Becquerel is a unit of radioactivity.
 
Japan says that the release of this water is safe, and the International Atomic Energy Agency gave the green light to the plan in July and confirmed that the plan complies with international standards.
 
However, environmental activists have strongly criticized the release of this water.
 
It should be mentioned that on March 11, 2011, following the 9 Richter earthquake and tsunami, and as a result of the failure of the machinery of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant belonging to the Tokyo Electric Power Company, a radioactive material leak occurred. Specialists consider this accident to be the biggest nuclear disaster after the Chernobyl accident, and in terms of complexity, they place it in the first place among the world's nuclear disasters because all the reactors of the Fukushima power plant faced problems as a result of this event.