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Japan: Protests Held Against Decision To Release Radioactive Water From Fukushima Power Plant

Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday, a controversial but essential early step in the decades of work to shut down the facility 12 years after its meltdown disaster.

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Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday, a controversial but essential early step in the decades of work to shut down the facility 12 years after its meltdown disaster.