SEOUL, June 24 (Xinhua) — Thousands of South Koreans rallied in central Seoul Saturday to induce the Japanese authorities to construct extra storage services on land for nuclear-contaminated water as an alternative of discharging it into the ocean.
The civic activists gathered close to the Seoul City Hall to clamor towards Japan’s deliberate discharge of radioactive wastewater, holding indicators that learn “Protect Pacific Ocean!” and “Storage on Land.”
They additionally urged the South Korean authorities and other people to forestall Japan’s irresponsible plan of discharging nuke-contaminated water into the ocean.
The organizer mentioned that because the time for Japan’s plan of dumping radioactive wastewater approaches, issues are rising in South Korea and overseas, whereas proof abounds that the discharge has antagonistic results on the ecosystem.
Kwon Min-kyung, a Seoul citizen who joined the protest rally, informed Xinhua that the Japanese authorities’s choice to dump radioactive wastewater merely to save cash is a legal act of destroying the marine ecosystem, despite the fact that there’s a solution to retailer it on land.
Despite grave issues expressed by neighbors and the Pacific island nations, the Japanese authorities has determined to launch radioactive wastewater from the crippled nuclear energy plant in Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean “in spring or summer.”