SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — Lawmakers of the South Korean predominant opposition Democratic Party on Wednesday held a protest rally towards Japan’s dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean.
The lawmakers gathered within the sq. of a railway station within the nation’s southwest coastal metropolis of Mokpo, shouting slogans of “We condemn Japan’s dumping of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean” along with residents becoming a member of the demonstration.
The members urged the South Korean authorities to file a lawsuit with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea towards the Japanese authorities and give you measures to assist the broken fishermen and the fishery trade.
Lee Jae-myung, chief of the Democratic Party, stated within the rally that Japan dumped the radioactive wastewater into the ocean simply to save lots of prices, noting that Japan’s wickedness victimized folks in South Korea and world wide.
Lee additional famous that the South Korean authorities ought to clearly oppose Japan’s marine dumping, which threatens the security of all humankind.
“The ocean belongs to all humankind, but Japan turned the ocean into the dumping ground for nuclear wastewater at its disposal,” Noh Pyeong-woo, chief of the federation of fishermen in South Jeolla province, stated through the rally.
He famous that the Fukushima wastewater discharge would pose an unprecedented risk to all humankind and the whole ecosystem, urging Tokyo to cease inflicting hassle to humankind with the nuclear-contaminated wastewater.
Struck by a large earthquake and an ensuing tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima nuclear energy plant suffered core meltdowns and generated a large quantity of water tainted with radioactive substances from cooling down the nuclear gasoline.
Japan began discharging the primary batch of radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant into the Pacific Ocean final Thursday.