Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 09.59 EDT
The Japanese government has been forced to quickly retire an animated character it had hoped would win support for its decision this week to release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
Although the water will be treated before being discharged, it will still contain tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope represented on a government website by a cute fish-like creature with rosy cheeks.
The character’s appearance in an online flyer and video on the reconstruction agency’s website angered Fukushima residents.
“It seems the government’s desire to release the water into the sea takes priority over everything,” Katsuo Watanabe, an 82-year-old Fukushima fisher, told the Kyodo news agency. “The gap between the gravity of the problems we face and the levity of the character is huge.”
Japoneses critican una mascota con forma de isótopo radiactivo creada por el Gobierno para explicar su plan de verter al mar el agua de Fukushima
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