TOKYO, May 16 (Xinhua) — Hundreds of Japanese folks on Tuesday gathered at a number of areas in Tokyo to protest towards the federal government’s plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, demanding speedy suspension of such plan.
On Tuesday morning, residents from prefectural areas, together with Tokyo, Fukushima and Nagasaki, gathered in entrance of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), shouting slogans akin to “Don’t pollute the ocean,” “Protect fisheries” and “Guard the future” in unison.
Seen on-site have been varied banners and flags with slogans that learn “Don’t discharge polluted water into the sea,” “Don’t pollute the ocean for all,” and “The sea is not the toilet for nuclear power plants.”
The Japanese authorities, which regarded discharging nuclear-polluted water into the ocean because the preliminary conclusion, has been making all types of excuses stressing that different discharge strategies wouldn’t work or couldn’t protect nuclear-polluted water on land, mentioned Kazuyoshi Sato, co-director of KOREUMI, a Japanese residents’ convention to sentence additional air pollution of the ocean and one of many rallies’ organizers.
Sato, additionally a resident of Fukushima prefecture, mentioned in his speech that the Japanese authorities is now spending tens of billions of yen to publicize the discharge plan by varied media platforms, however the public, not satisfied of such flawed propaganda, won’t comply with the choice.
“Through today’s actions, we are raising our voice against the dumping plan to the whole world,” he mentioned.
Chiyo Oda, one other co-director of the group, learn and submitted a petition to a TEPCO consultant, demanding the corporate to abide by the settlement with native associations akin to Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations and to not discharge nuclear-polluted water into the ocean with out the understanding and consent of related events.
The petition required disclosure of data such because the focus and whole quantity of all radionuclides and reassessment of the radiation’s affect on the marine surroundings and creatures.
It additionally demanded elementary countermeasures from TEPCO, akin to exploring the development of enormous water storage tanks for long-term nuclear-polluted water preservation and selling the sensible software of tritium separation know-how.
The rally held in entrance of the Second Members’ Office Building of the House of Representatives later in the course of the day was joined by 5 Japanese lawmakers from opposition events, together with the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party.
Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party, instructed the group that radioactive supplies, as soon as discharged, can’t be retrieved, in order that they have to be intensively managed.
“Such materials would be beyond management if they are discharged into the ocean. We can’t allow such a thing to happen,” she mentioned.