Treated water releases from the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear power plant

An overview of the decision-making process and governing institutions

Bibliographic Data

ID21521679
AuthorsLeslie Mabon (0000-0003-2646-6119, The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume163
Pages106120
Publication date2024-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMarine Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-597X • E-ISSN: 1872-9460
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106120
OpenAlexW4393089730
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

In August 2023, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), with permission of the Japanese government, began to release treated water stored on the site of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Given their unprecedented nature in terms of scale and duration, with over one million tons of water to be released over thirty years, the releases have drawn international scholarly attention from marine policy, law, conservation and social sciences, as well as from policy and science-media sectors more widely. The purpose of this communication is therefore to provide an international audience with an outline of the processes through which the decision to release the treated water was made; and of the institutions and policy frameworks that govern the treated water releases from Fukushima Dai’ichi

Business · Environmental resource management · Fresh water · Geography · Nuclear energy policy · Nuclear power · Nuclear power plant · Political science · Environmental Science · Nuclear and radioactivity studies · Public Administration · Radioactive contamination and transfer · Radioactive element chemistry and processing · Ecology · Environmental Engineering

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