The Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to soon start releasing more than a million tons of radioactive water from the plant into the sea, threatening to wipe out progress made in Japan’s fishing industry
A chilly dawn paints the sky magenta and purple as Japanese fisherman Haruo Ono unloads his catch of flounder, crab and sea bass from his boat at the small port of Shinchimachi.
More than a decade later, Shinchimachi is still recovering as is its fishing industry but a new threat spawned by the disaster could wipe out the progress made. The water was mainly used to cool reactors in the aftermath of the disaster. It is enough to fill about 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools and is being stored in huge tanks at the plant.The water is treated, filtered and diluted and Tepco and the government say it is safe. But it does contains traces of tritium.
Fukushima has a long, proud fishing tradition. The area used to send its flounder in tribute to feudal lords.Ono was left with virtually nothing. Though his immediate family survived, a brother was killed in the roiling sea.
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