The government announced Monday that the discharge of treated wastewater from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be carried out seven more times from next month to March of next year, adding that the fourth discharge concluded on Sunday.
Park Gu-yeon, first vice minister of government policy coordination said at a briefing at the Seoul Government Complex that around 54-thousand-600 cubic meters of treated water and about 14 trillion becquerels(Bq) of tritium will be discharged in seven phases starting next month.
The official said during the fourth discharge, which began on February 28, around 31-thousand-200 cubic meters of treated water and around five trillion Bq of tritium was released into the sea, adding that the government found no abnormalities in tritium concentration during the said period.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO) halted operations of the treated water transfer pump at around 3:29 a.m. Sunday, before a magnitude five-point-four earthquake was reported off the coast of Fukushima at 6:17 a.m.
Inspections of major facilities at the nuclear power plant showed no abnormalities caused by the earthquake.
