Japan Times reported that Japanese steel giant Nippon Steel has admitted that it failed to properly report leaks of water containing highly toxic cyanide from company's East Nippon Works in the city of Kimitsu in Chiba Prefecture plant in eastern Japan on 39 occasions from February 2019. Nippon Steel said that it re-examined data on the quality of discharged water checked over the past three to five years and found readings worse than those reported to authorities including the Chiba Prefectural GovernmentNippon Steel detected cyanide exceeding legal limits from samples taken from a water outlet but failed to report the facts properly. There were also cases in which the company redid water checks to record only results that met the legal standards. The maximum amount detected was 0.6 milligram per liter, or six times the allowed limit.In June, reports surfaced that the river nearby turned brown and slightly red, while dead fish floated after liquid had flowed from the facility.
Japan Times reported that Japanese steel giant Nippon Steel has admitted that it failed to properly report leaks of water containing highly toxic cyanide from company's East Nippon Works in the city of Kimitsu in Chiba Prefecture plant in eastern Japan on 39 occasions from February 2019. Nippon Steel said that it re-examined data on the quality of discharged water checked over the past three to five years and found readings worse than those reported to authorities including the Chiba Prefectural GovernmentNippon Steel detected cyanide exceeding legal limits from samples taken from a water outlet but failed to report the facts properly. There were also cases in which the company redid water checks to record only results that met the legal standards. The maximum amount detected was 0.6 milligram per liter, or six times the allowed limit.In June, reports surfaced that the river nearby turned brown and slightly red, while dead fish floated after liquid had flowed from the facility.
