Civic groups oppose ocean discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima in Japan

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On the 10th, a day before the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan, civil society groups urged the Japanese government to express its opposition to the plan to discharge contaminated water from nuclear power plants into the ocean.

Civic groups such as Japan’s Joint Action to Prevent the Discharge of Radioactive Water and Korea-Japan History Justice Peace Action are performing near the President’s Office in Yongsan, Seoul on the 10th to urge the Japanese government to demand long-term storage of radioactively contaminated water from Fukushima by the Yoon Seok-yeol administration. yunhap news

The ‘Joint Action to Prevent the Discharge of Radioactive Contaminated Water in Japan’ and the Korea-Japan Historical Justice Peace Action held a press conference in front of the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the morning of the same day, saying, “There are alternatives such as long-term storage on land, but the Japanese government has been running only for dumping at sea from the beginning.” claimed this.

The organizations demanded long-term storage and asked the Japanese government to prepare measures for damage to fishermen and fishermen, saying, “If stored on land for about a hundred years, the half-life of radioactive materials passes and the toxicity decreases.”

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