The fishing industry around Fukushima has just recovered from the 2011 nuclear disaster, but local fishermen are once again fearing for their future as an energy company plans to dump cooling water from the decommissioned power plant into the sea. ▶️
Morning is already dawning as 71-year-old fisherman Haruo Ono unloads his catch at the small port of Shinchimachi. Ono, a third-generation fisherman, has been putting out to sea for half a century from Shinchimachi, just 55 kilometers north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where one of the world's worst nuclear disasters occurred in 2011.
employee holds a sample of treated water up to the camera. The water is treated, filtered and diluted. and the Tokyo government cite radiation testing standards that are more stringent than those of other countries that also discharge treated water. The release was also approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency . "We have the equipment to make the water safe,"
is breeding flounder in tanks at the decommissioned Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Toshihiro Wada of Fukushima University can understand the fishermen's concerns:
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