The opposition ranges from the Chinese government to South Korean Buddhism, but Japan cleared a major hurdle to its planned release of wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant this week after South Korea dropped its long-held opposition to the plan.
Separately, the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Authority has offered a critical endorsement of Japan’s plan to release wastewater from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo, into the Pacific.
Proposed solutions included permanent storage in concrete pens, or channeling the water underground to inland storage sites. The choice was to treat the water using an Advanced Liquid Processing System before releasing it into the ocean later this summer. The full discharge is expected to take up to three decades.in a report presented by Director-General Rafael Grossi to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan allowed Seoul experts to visit Fukushima and meet related officials shortly after the government of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol proposed a resolution to the long-running bilateral dispute over World War II forced labor abuses in May. That was just one component of the conservative administration’s policy of overturning the anti-Japanese policies of the liberal Moon Jae-in administration, which exited office in 2022.
Outside, protesters held up signs while a group of Buddhist nuns – one playing a Korean folk tune on an electronic flute shaped like a conch shell — collected signatures for a petition condemning the proposal. The IAEA report “failed to fully reflect views from experts that participated in the review,” China’s Foreign Ministry. “The conclusion was not shared by all experts. The Chinese side regrets the hasty release of the report. … “Japan has chosen to shift the risk of nuclear contamination onto the whole humanity.”
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