KMT urges action over Japan water
‘SPLIT PERSONALITY’:
A DPP spokeswoman said the KMT is protesting the Fukushima wastewater plan while still calling for the activation of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant
By Sherry Hsiao
and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday called for a firmer response from the government to Japan’s decision to release processed wastewater from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant into the ocean.
The decision to begin discharging the wastewater into the ocean in two years was announced by the Japanese government on Tuesday.
If the water is not treated properly, it would contaminate the entire marine ecosystem and affect the rights of the nation’s fishers, KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) told a news conference in Taipei.