Japan gov't says safe to release contaminated Fukushima water into ocean

TOKYO - Japan's industry ministry said Monday it would be safe to release water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean, stressing that the health risk to humans would be "significantly small."Discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean over the course of a year would amount to between just one-1,600th and one-40,000th of the radiation that humans are naturally exposed to, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told a government subcommittee on the issue.Water used to cool the melted-down cores and groundwater near the disabled plant contains some radioactive ma…READ FULL ARTICLE