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- Bye-bye, Little Mr. Tritium: Rollout of cartoon MASCOT to promote dumping Fukushima’s radioactive waters into ocean flops in Japan
Japan’s government has scrapped a mascot promoting the plan to dump contaminated Fukushima wastewaters into the ocean just a day after its release, after the cute character received an extremely poor reception from the public.Apr 15, 2021 14:28World News - South Korea to take Japan to international tribunal over plan to dump Fukushima water into oceanSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in has told government officials to look at taking Japan to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea over the country’s plans to dump contaminated water from Fukushima into the ocean.Apr 14, 2021 13:05World News
- Beijing slams Japan’s plan for radioactive Fukushima water as ‘extremely irresponsible’China has condemned the Japanese government’s decision to release tritium-contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean as irresponsible, saying Tokyo “must not” do so without consultations.Apr 13, 2021 03:52World News
- Japanese government says it WILL release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the seaContaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move.Apr 12, 2021 23:21World News
- Dumping of Fukushima radioactive water into ocean ‘unavoidable’, Japanese PM says, as country’s fisheries reject planJapan’s fisheries union says it remains opposed to the idea of dumping radioactive water accumulated at the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, as top government officials signal the controversial plan will likely go ahead.Apr 7, 2021 13:00World News
- Safety first? Japan asks UN nuclear watchdog to review its plans to release Fukushima radioactive water into oceanTokyo has asked the UN nuclear watchdog for support and back-up for its plans to empty a huge stash of radioactive water stored around the Fukushima power plant into the sea – a plan that’s sparked fears of an ecological disaster.Mar 23, 2021 17:36World News
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