Announcing the end of the first phase of releasing 7,800 tons of the water on Sept. 11, TEPCO gave no date for the start of the second discharge.

Source: https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/first-phase-of-fukushima-water-release-to-end-sept-11-186116

“Now, valves near the seawater transport pumps are opening,” a TEPCO official said via a video link from the site broadcast at the company’s Tokyo headquarters.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/24/japan-prepares-to-start-release-of-fukushima-radioactive-water

TEPCO was not honest about the severity of the disaster back in 2011.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/brick-thrown-at-japan-embassy-in-china-in-fukushima-spat

TEPCO will be rigorous in overseeing the second round, an official told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday, while exercising "the utmost vigilance to ensure that there is no unintentional discharge" of treated water into the sea.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-second-phase-wastewater-release-3822716?cid=cna_flip_070214

The release of contaminated water by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has been on the cards since 2018 but it was repeatedly postponed until it finally received endorsement from the International Atomic Energy Agency in early July.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20230819-japan-s-fukushima-water-release-plan-fuels-fear-despite-iaea-backing

Yeh vows safety just like TEPCO did then proceeded not to raise the tsunami safety wall due to high costs.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/kishida-visits-fukushima-plant-before-contentious-water-release

Yet TEPCO maintains that releasing the wastewater is a necessity.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/fukushima-radioactive-wastewater-release-plan-japan-1850577495