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Despite warnings, IAEA approves Japan release plan for contaminated Fukushima water
“Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,” said one local fisherman earlier this year.
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Japan needs to reconsider wastewater discharge plan
It may be recalled that after Japan alarmingly announced in April 2021 its plan to start releasing around 1.3 million metric tons of contaminated wastewater from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, countries in the rest of eastern Asia and the Pacific region protested. Environmental groups and even the Japanese people opposed it.