2021-04-29 00:14 By: Xinhua
TOKYO, April 28 (Xinhua) The Japanese government s hasty decision to discharge the contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant was not only a breach of its commitment, but would also be doomed to fail, a Japanese expert has said.
Kenichi Oshima, chairman of Japan s Citizens Commission on Nuclear Energy, strongly opposed the Japanese government s move in recent local media reports.
Oshima pointed out that the decision was completely unconvincing that only the Japanese government and the plant s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, deemed it unproblematic to discharge the contaminated water.
The expert said the water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident is completely different from the cooling wastewater of normal nuclear power plants.
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16 Apr 2021
South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered officials on Wednesday to explore filing an international court injunction against Japan over its decision to release 1.25 million tons of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
“In an internal meeting, Moon ordered his government to ‘proactively consider’ bringing the matter to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea,” presidential spokesman Kang Min-seok told reporters at a press briefing on April 14.
“The [South Korean] office of the secretary for legal affairs has begun a review of various options, which include a formal request for the tribunal to take a provisional measure first, similar to a ‘court injunction,’ against Japan’s move,” Kang said.
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