About 11,500 tons of radioactive water that has collected at the
crippled Fukishima Daiichi nuclear facility will be dumped into the
Pacific Ocean, officials said Monday. "For the safety of the (No. 2) reactor, we have no choice" (bron).
"The plant operators also deliberately dumped 10,000 tons of tainted
water – measuring about 500 times above the legal limit for radiactivity" 500 maal de limiet, niet 500 boven de limiet.
