Image source, EPA Image caption, Protesters call for the water release strategy to be called off in a rally exterior the Japanese PM’s home in Tokyo on Tuesday Japan will start launching dealtwith radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, regardlessof opposition from its neighbours. The choice comes weeks after the UN’s nuclear guarddog authorized the strategy. Some 1.34 million tonnes of water – enough to fill 500 Olympic-size swimmingpools – haveactually builtup because the 2011 tsunami damaged the plant. The water will be launched over 30 years after being filtered and watereddown. Authorities will demand for the plant’s operator to “promptly prepare” for the disposal to start on 24 August if weathercondition and sea conditions are suitable, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated on Tuesday after a Cabinet conference. Mr Kishida had checkedout the plant on Sunday, triggering speculation the release was impending. The federalgovernment has stated that launching the water is a needed action in the prolonged and pricey procedure of decommissioning the plant, which sits on the nation’s east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo. Japan hasactually been gathering and keeping the infected water in tanks for more than a years, however area is running out. Media caption, Watch: The BBC’s Tokyo reporter Shaimaa Khalil sees the treatment plant to see how it works In 2011, a tsunami activated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake flooded 3 reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The e
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