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Added on the 08/07/2015 16:57:43 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
A small group of protesters gather near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant as the release of the wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is set to begin. IMAGES
Toshiba is deploying a robot that looks like a scorpion to enter the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan. This comes amid the ongoing struggle to clean up the power plant following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan that caused a radiation leak and long-term evacuations.
A view of the coastline near the Fukushima-Daiichi facility as Japan begins releasing wastewater from the crippled nuclear plant, in an operation it insists is safe but which has generated a fierce backlash from China. IMAGES
Images of Fukushima's Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant before the visit of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, ahead of the discharge of treated water which is scheduled to begin by the end of summer. IMAGES
People in Hisanohama, a coastal town in Fukushima, observe a minute's silence at 2.46 pm local time (0546 GMT), to mark 10 years since the worst natural disaster in the country's living memory: a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear meltdown that traumatised a nation. IMAGES