Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced on Tuesday that more than 264 million gallons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant — which was destroyed in 2011 by a tsunami — will be released into the ocean.
The treated radioactive water has been stored in tanks on the plant site since the tsunami, and it will go through additional filtration processes to meet international standards before being released into the ocean in at least two years time, with the release process expected to take place over several decades.
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