RADIOACTIVE WATER FROM FUKUSHIMA SET FOR RELEASE IN OCEAN

Japan is reportedly planning to release more than a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The government's advisory panel is meeting later this month and will formally recommend pouring it into the ocean. The panel will call for the water, which is currently stored in hundreds of tanks at the site of the crippled nuclear reactor, to be again put through a process designed to reduce the radioactivity to below legal standards and dilute it with sea water.