Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said trillion becquerels of tritium from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011.
The utility reported an estimated 20 trillion to 40 trillion has flown after recently admitting that toxic water from the emergency cooling system set up after the nuclear crisis began on March 11, 2011, is leaking into the sea, the Japan Times reports.
According to the report, the revelation was made by TEPCO in a report to the Nuclear Regulation Authority.