There are dirty pints and then there’s this… The Japanese Deputy Prime Minister, Tarō Asō, has been dared to drink the radioactive water surrounding the Fukushima nuclear plant after he said it was to consume. The power plant suffered major damage following an earthquake and tsunami back in 2011 and, as such, has been riddled […]

5 years ago

Several countries have opposed the plans, which are set to start in two years’ time Japan has given the go-ahead to plans which will see more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power station being put into the sea over the course of two years, the Guardian reported. The […]

5 years ago

Despite opposition to the plan, Japan’s government could decide to release the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean Japan could soon dump radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, reports from the country have claimed. The power plant was damaged by a tsunami triggered by a powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake in […]

5 years ago