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Japan says Fukushima water release to start in ‘spring or summer’

Regulators have deemed it safe to release the water from Fukushima [File: Kyodo via Reuters]

The Japanese government has said it will start releasing contaminated water from Fukushima, the nuclear power plant devastated by a tsunami in 2011, into the ocean sometime “around this spring or summer”.

Spring usually starts in Japan in March and summer in June.

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