World atomic body reviewing plan to discharge treated Fukushima water into the sea  

A task force of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other international experts visited Japan last week to gather information and collect water samples, in order to be able to draw up an independent review of Japan’s plan to discharge into the sea treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP). This NPP was wrecked by a tsunami, triggered by a huge (magnitude 9.0) undersea earthquake, in 2011. While the plant’s six reactors all automatically shut down when their …