TOKYO, March 15. /TASS/. Tokyo Electric Power company specialists examined equipment discharging purified water from the crippled Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant and found no faults or damage, the Kyodo news agency said.

The systems were shut down on Thursday night, following a 5.8-magnitude earthquake near the Fukushima prefecture.

The discharge of water is expected to resume later in the day.

It was the system’s first emergency shutdown since it was put into operation last year.

There are currently over 1.34 mln tons of water at the NPP. That said, the Japanese government decided to gradually treat and then discharge this water into the sea. The process is expected to take 30 to 40 years. The water is treated through the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) and is also diluted with seawater but still contains tritium that cannot be removed. The maximum allowable concentration of tritium is 1,500 becquerels per liter, and the measurements that the Japanese officials and IAEA experts take in the ocean confirm that the treated water meets these parameters.