South Korea expressed strong regret on Tuesday over Japan s decision to dump radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Koo Yoon-cheol, chief of the Office for Government Policy Coordination, said during an emergency vice-ministerial meeting that the South Korean government expresses strong regret and will take all necessary measures for the safety of our people , Xinhua reported. Koo strongly urged the Japanese government to transparently disclose information on and verify all procedures of discharging the contaminated water from the Fukushima power plant into the ocean. The South Korean government planned to strongly demand Japan s concrete actions in a bid to help protect people s safety and prevent any damage to the marine environment, according to Yonhap news agency.
The plan to release hundreds of thousands of tons of wastewater from the crippled nuclear plant into the Pacific has angered some of Japan's residents, and neighbors.
Read more about Japan to start releasing contaminated Fukushima water into sea in 2 years on Business Standard. Japan s government decided Tuesday to start releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years
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Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits protest the government’s decision in Seoul, South Korea.
Photo: Lee Jin-man (AP)
The Japanese government said Tuesday that it would start releasing contaminated water from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean, outlining a long-expected plan that is, understandably, upsetting a whole lot of people.
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Around 1.25 million tons of water accumulated at a nuclear site in Fukushima Prefecture in the wake of the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. That disaster killed more than 19,000 people and caused three of the six reactors at the plant to shut down, triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Since the disaster, the government has been keeping the water on the decommissioned site in hundreds of huge storage tanks. Around 170 tons of water are added to storage each day, and space to build more tanks to keep all the water, the plant’s