VIENNA, March 6 (Xinhua) — Two Chinese officers on Monday urged Japan to not arbitrarily begin discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy station into the Pacific Ocean.
Liu Jing, deputy director of the China Atomic Energy Authority, instructed a gathering of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors that Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan shouldn’t be the nation’s non-public matter, however considerations the worldwide marine setting and public well being.
Liu mentioned the IAEA has neither accomplished its evaluation of Japan’s disposal plan nor drawn particular conclusions, and all its three stories revealed up to now identified the plan’s non-compliance with the company’s security requirements and prompt enchancment.
However, Japan has arbitrarily authorized its personal plan and expedited the development of discharge amenities, ignoring the authoritative recommendation from the IAEA and the opposition from each residence and overseas, Liu mentioned, calling Japan’s transfer “an extremely irresponsible act that has drawn grave concerns from the international community and relevant countries.”
Noting that China helps the IAEA’s work on Japan’s discharge plan, the Chinese nuclear official mentioned he hopes the company will proceed to carry out its duties in an goal and neutral method, take heed to the opinions of stakeholders, strictly implement the company’s security requirements and worldwide good practices, and assist the worldwide neighborhood guarantee absolute security.
Liu pressured that Japan’s plan to dump contaminated water into the ocean shouldn’t be the one possible manner of disposal, and Japan mustn’t use the evaluation from the IAEA technical process drive as a free move on its discharge plan.
He urged Japan to not distort the stories of the IAEA process drive to justify its discharge plan, nor ignore the authoritative suggestion from the duty drive, nor set a deadline for the discharge of the duty drive’s closing evaluation report.
Noting that the disposal of the contaminated water will span a very long time and contain many uncertainties, he mentioned that Japan ought to permit efficient worldwide supervision on the water disposal, handle the reliable considerations of its neighbors and Pacific island international locations, and maintain significant consultations with stakeholders.
Li Song, China’s everlasting consultant to the United Nations in Vienna, additionally decried Japan’s “extremely irresponsible act” of pushing forward with its discharge plan regardless of worldwide opposition.
Li urged Japan to answer the considerations of the worldwide neighborhood and chorus from arbitrarily discharging contaminated water into the ocean.
Such water disposal is a extremely controversial problem that must be significantly and prudently addressed by the worldwide neighborhood and IAEA member states, the Chinese envoy mentioned.
Instead of endorsing Japan’s discharge plan, the IAEA ought to keep its scientific, neutral and clear strategy and lead the institution of a long-term worldwide monitoring system that entails laboratories and specialists from China and different stakeholders, he mentioned.
China will take part within the related work of the IAEA with a powerful sense of duty, Li mentioned.