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S.Korea mulls talks with Japan over nuke water release
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IANS | 14 May, 2021
South Korea is considering ways to have consultations with Japan over
its plan to dump radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported
on Friday citing the Foreign Ministry.
An unnamed Ministry
official was quoted by multiple local media as saying the South Korean
government is in a position that the bilateral consultations between
Seoul and Tokyo will be necessary to deliver its stance and receive
additional information, separately from the verification process via the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The official told
reporters that Seoul is reviewing ways to hold the bilateral
consultations over the issue, Xinhua news agency reported.
Seoul
is reportedly mulling ways to form a consultative body with Tokyo to let
South Korean officials or experts visit the destroyed Fukushima nuclear
plant and figure out situations around it.
Japan announced a
plan in April to discharge the tritium-laced contaminated water of over
1.25 million tonnes, stored in tanks near the Fukushima plant, into the
ocean in two years.
The radioactive wastewater, accumulated at
the plant since the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a
triple core meltdown, contains such materials as tritium, cesium and
strontium far beyond the tolerable limits.
The radioactive
wastewater, if discharged into the sea, will destroy the ecological
environment of the sea, and entail serious risks to health and existence
of the people in coastal areas, according to experts.
The
Fukushima plant suffered meltdowns at three of its six reactors after it
was hit by the powerful earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
Since then, the operator has continued to inject water into the three reactors to keep cooling melted atomic fuel there.
Radiation-contaminated
water at the site has been treated through an advanced liquid
processing system, but tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen,
cannot be removed.
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