First time! Radioactive material tritium detected after Japan's nuclear contaminated water was discharged into the sea
Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on August 1st that after the Fukushima nuclear contaminated water was discharged into the sea, Japan detected radioactive material tritium for the first time in seawater sampled near the discharge outlet on August 31st.
Image taken from the Japan Common Network
According to a report by Kyodo News Agency on September 1st, the concentration of radioactive material tritium in the sampled seawater was 10 Becquerels per liter. According to the report, staff have set up 10 sampling points within a radius of 3 kilometers around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The seawater tested for tritium this time was taken from the sampling point closest to the discharge outlet. The tritium concentration in the seawater sampled at the sampling point on the 24th was 2.6 Becquerels, and the conventional analysis at that time did not reach the detection limit.
For the significant increase in tritium concentration in just a few days, TEPCO acknowledges that this is due to the impact of nuclear contaminated water being discharged into the sea, but they insist that this concentration is "completely safe".
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