‘It is time for the international community to step in and call out this clear breach of the international law’ South Koreans have continued a weekend rally against Japan’s dumping of Fukushima nuclear plant’s contaminated radioactive wastewater into the ocean by holding a large demonstration on Saturday. The protesters, including fishermen, activists and politicians, shouted slogans such […]
In response, China said it would ban the import of all Japanese ocean products, with one ministry spokesperson calling Japan’s decision “selfish.” At around 1:00 pm local time Thursday, the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to discharge wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, in keeping with the schedule Japan announced Tuesday. In response, South Korean protestors attempted to enter […]
The fish was caught near a drainage outlet where water from melted nuclear reactors flows—some of the same water that is to be treated and released from the power plant starting next month. With the Tokyo Electric Power Company planning to begin a release of 1.3 million tonnes of treated wastewater from the former Fukushima Daiichi nuclear […]
“Piping water into the sea is an outrage,” said one Japanese fisher angered by the plan to release radioactive wastewater into the ocean. “The sea is not a garbage dump.” Critics of a Japanese plan to release filtered radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean intensified their opposition to the proposal on Wednesday […]