処理水放出、今年度５回目が終了　東電福島第１原発

　東京電力は１４日、福島第１原発にたまる放射性物質トリチウムを含む処理水の今年度５回目の海洋放出を終えたと発表した。昨年８月の放出開始以降、通算９回目。９月２６日に開始され、海水で薄めた処理水約７８００トンを、海底トンネルを通じて約１キロ沖合に流した。
　年度内はあと２回計画されている。東電や国などは海水や水産物のトリチウム濃度測定を続けているが、国の基準値を大幅に下回っている。（2024/10/14-14:00）

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it has completed the fifth round of discharges of tritium-containing treated water from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the ocean for fiscal 2024.
   About 7,800 tons of the water, diluted with seawater, was released about 1 kilometer offshore through an undersea tunnel in the latest operation from Sept. 26, which marked the ninth round since TEPCO began to release the treated water in August last year.
   The company plans to carry out two more discharges for the current year ending next March.
   TEPCO, the government and other organizations monitor tritium concentrations in seawater samples and fishery products collected in waters near the plant. Tritium levels have remained far lower than the limits set under Japanese safety standards.
   At the power plant, the site of the March 2011 triple meltdown, radioactive water keeps accumulating as TEPCO still needs to cool the damaged reactors. TEPCO releases the water after processing it through water cleanup equipment.