Japan PM to meet fishing industry leaders over Fukushima water

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Monday meet fishing industry representatives in a bid to convince them of the safety of treated radioactive
water due to be released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
The government is expected to decide soon when to start releasing the water, equivalent to 500 Olympic-size swimming pools, despite objections at home and abroad to the plan.
The water has mostly been used to cool nuclear reactors damaged in 2011 when tsunami waves crashed into the plant on the coast north of Tokyo after an earthquake.
The water has been treated to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, a hydrogen isotope that must be diluted because it is difficult to filter.
Kishida, who visited the plant on Sunday, said last week his government was in the final stage of deciding when to begin the release.