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Sea of trouble: Japan dumps toxic water into the Pacific [1]

Makes Room For More Lethal Runoff
Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping over 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff.

The water, most of it to be released over two days, contains about 100 times the legal limit of r

Publication Date: 
05/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Japan [3], Toxic Wastes [4], Radioactive Waste [5], Nuclear Power Plants [6], Water Pollution [7], Oceans and Seas [8], Earthquakes [9], Natural Disasters [10]
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