Government officials on Wednesday told diplomats they were still considering options for handling contaminated water at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant amid worries the water may be dumped into the ocean.
A massive amount of tainted water — more than a million tons as of August — is building up at the plant, crippled by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. tries to cool the melted fuel cores by pouring water over them.
Tepco has said it will run out of tank space by mid-2022.