ALPS Treated Water

The Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), a multi-nuclide removal system, removes various radioactive materials from contaminated water.

Outline of ALPS treated water

Basic Policy

• Basic Policy on handling of ALPS treated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (April 13, 2021)(PDF:347KB)

PR material of Basic Policy

• English(PDF:355KB)
• Simplified Chinese(PDF:298KB)
• Traditional Chinese(PDF:363KB)
• Korean
• Russian(PDF:295KB)
• French (PDF:289KB)
• Spanish (PDF:424KB)

Related Documents

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  What is “ALPS treated water”?
  *This document provides an easy-to-understand explanation of ALPS treated water. (10 pages)

  English(PDF:843KB)

  Traditional Chinese(PDF:973KB)

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  Basic policy on handling of the ALPS treated water (April 13, 2021) (PDF:2,691KB)
  *This document explains in detail the basic policy for treated water. (29 pages)

Documents of TEPCO

• TEPCO Holdings’ Action in Response to the Government’s Policy on the Handling of ALPS Treated Water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (TEPCO website; April 16, 2021)
  • “Digest version”
• TEPCO Draft Study Responding to the Subcommittee Report on Handling ALPS Treated Water (TEPCO website; March 24, 2020)

Status of studies on the handling of ALPS treated water

The Inter-Ministerial Council for Contaminated Water, Treated Water and Decommissioning issues

• Basic Policy on handling of ALPS treated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (April 13, 2021) (PDF:347KB)

Team for Contaminated Water and Decommissioning Issues

• “Team for Contaminated Water and Decommissioning Issues” meeting (October 23, 2020) (in Japanese)
• The Outline of the opinions for ALPS treated water (PDF:505KB)

The Subcommittee on Handling ALPS treated water

• The Subcommittee on Handling of the ALPS treated water Report（February 10, 2020）(PDF:2,246KB)
• The Outline of the Subcommittee on Handling of the ALPS treated water Report(PDF:505KB)
• Japanese site

 

Tritiated Water Task Force (2013-2016)

• Tritiated Water Task Force Report (June 2016, Tritiated Water Task Force) (September 15, 2016)(PDF:2,824KB)

ALPS treated water Q&A

Here, we will answer the questions of ALPS treated water.
If you have questions, please check the answer!

＜“treated water” and “contaminated water”＞
Q1: What is “ALPS treated water”?
Q2: Why is “contaminated water” generated?

＜Characteristics of the ALPS treated water＞
Q3: What is tritium?
Q4: Can tritium be removed?
Q5: Does the treated water contain radioactive materials other than tritium?

＜Handling of the ALPS treated water＞
Q6: Why is discharge of ALPS treated water needed?
Q7: Why was Discharge into the sea selected as the method of disposal?
Q8: Is it possible to store or discharge treated water outside of Fukushima Daiichi NPS (FDNPS)？
Q9: Is it possible to store in intermediate storage facilities?

 

＜Radiation impact of ALPS treated water＞
Q10: What regulatory standards are applicable to the discharge from Fukushima Daiichi NPS (FDNPS)？
Q11: What level of radioactive impact will the release of the treated water have?

 

＜Countermeasures for possible reputational damage＞
Q12: What kind of countermeasures will be taken for possible reputational damage?

＜Future plans＞
Q13: What are the steps toward handling of treated water?

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Related Links

• TEPCO: Tokyo Electric Power Company
• TEPCO:TREATED WATER POTAL SITE
• NDF: Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decomissioning Facilitation Corporation
• NRA: Nuclear Regulation Authority
• MAFF: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• Fukushima Prefecture: Food monitoring site
• IRID: International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning
• JAEA: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
• IAEA: Fukushima Daiichi Status Updates

Division in Charge

Nuclear Accident Response Office, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy