TOKYO — Several non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Japan introduced Friday the launch of a marine-protection undertaking aimed toward stopping the federal government’s plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear energy plant to the ocean.
The NPOs, together with the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center and the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, will begin the undertaking titled “Future of the Ocean” on July 17, which is acknowledged as “Marine Day” in Japan. (Japan-NPOs-Nuclear-contaminated Water)
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TOKYO — Eight civic teams in Japan’s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa have issued a joint assertion to oppose the deliberate launch of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean, native Okinawan newspaper the Ryukyu Shimpo reported Friday.
The civic teams, together with the Okinawa Environmental Club and the Okinawa Peaceful Citizen Liaison Council, held a press convention on the Okinawa prefectural authorities workplace on Thursday, the place they signed the assertion, expressing robust opposition to the discharge of nuclear wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant into the ocean. (Japan-Civic Groups-Nuclear-contaminated Water)
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TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear regulators on Friday formally gave the inexperienced mild to services for discharging nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear energy plant, native media reported.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued the certificates to the plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), exhibiting that the services have handed closing checks, Kyodo News mentioned. (Japan-NRA-Nuclear-contaminated Water)
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SEOUL — All lawmakers of South Korea’s predominant opposition Democratic Party (DP) launched an in a single day sit-in on the National Assembly in Seoul on Thursday night time to induce the federal government to oppose Japan’s deliberate discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific.
All of 167 lawmakers would additionally maintain a “relay filibuster,” through which they’d take turns to ship lengthy speeches demanding the withdrawal of Japan’s plan and denouncing Seoul’s response to it, the newspaper added. (S.Korea-Japan-Nuclear-contaminated Water)