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Why Japan is releasing radioactive wastewater into Pacific Ocean?

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Japan has started the process of releasing over one million tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. However, the release has raised some major concerns among environmentalists, with groups in China and South Korea flagging the potential long-term implications of it on the environment, food safety, and public health.