Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday in an operation it insists is safe . China has accused Japan of treating the Pacific like a sewer . Environmental group Greenpeace says that the filtration process is flawed and China and Russia suggest the water be vaporised and released into the atmosphere instead .
Three of the reactors at the FukushimaDaiichi facility in northeastern Japan went into meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami that killed around people in the region . Three reactors went into meltdowns following the massive quake and tsunami .
Since then TEPCO has collected . million cubic metres of water contaminated as it cooled the wrecked reactors along with groundwater and rain that has seeped in . The first discharge of the treated water will take about days . TEPCo will carry out four releases of the treatable water from Thursday until March .
The release will take around days. The first release of the first discharge will take from March . to March 2014 . The South Korean government which is seeking to improve ties with Japan has not objected although many ordinary people are worried and have staged protests .
Social media posts in China and South Korea have included false claims about the release including doctored images of deformed fish with claims they were linked to Fukushima . China and Hong Kong have not objected to the release of radioactive material .
China banned food imports from out of Japanese prefectures and imposed radiation checks. Restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau have also imposed radiation tests and said it is concerned that it would be affected by the release. The Japanese government has not agreed to use the release .
The Japanese nuclear plant and said they are concerned that the release and that the Japanese government is not concerned that they are not aware of any of the material.
