Fukushima Residents Are Cautious After Wrecked Nuclear Plant Began Releasing Treated Wastewater

Fukushima Residents Are Cautious After Wrecked Nuclear Plant Began Releasing Treated Wastewater
An angler fishes at Onahama Port in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Aug. 25, 2023. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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IWAKI, Japan—Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were mixed amid uncertainty over how seafood consumers will respond to the release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the ocean.

The plant, which was damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, began sending the treated water into the Pacific on Thursday despite protests at home and in nearby countries that are adding political and diplomatic pressures to the economic worries.