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

• Report on the Interim Measures for the Handling of ALPS Treated Water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (August 24, 2021)(PDF:553KB)

 

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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:866KB)

  Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) (PDF:973KB)

  Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

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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)

IAEA’s support for handling of ALPS treated water

• IAEA Holds First Meeting of International Task Force Set Up to Review Safety of Fukushima Treated Water Release (September 28, 2021)
• IAEA senior officials came to Japan and had a discussion toward the full-scale implementation of the review on the safety of ALPS treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (September 9, 2021)
• The Government of Japan signed on IAEA's support for handling of ALPS treated water at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (July 8, 2021)

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