On the 10th, during the process of transferring nuclear contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an abnormal system alarm was triggered, causing the automatic suspension of the contaminated water ocean discharge operation.
Tokyo Electric Power Company stated that staff subsequently inspected the on-site equipment and found no abnormalities. The company is currently investigating the specific cause of the alarm.
Tokyo Electric Power Company began the 20th round of nuclear contaminated water discharge this month on the 1st.
According to previously released information from Tokyo Electric Power Company, this discharge operation is scheduled to continue until June 19 and is expected to discharge a total of approximately 7,800 tons of nuclear contaminated water, containing a radioactive tritium total of about 13 trillion becquerels.