Japanese protesters to stand up against Fukushima water release
More than 100 people in Japan gathered to protest in front of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official residence in Tokyo on Friday (August 25), a day after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant started discharging treated water into the Pacific Ocean.
Protesters held placards, chanted slogans and sang a protest song in unison to oppose the Fukushima water discharge.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant at 1:03 p.m. local time (0403 GMT) on Thursday (August 24) and said that it had not identified any abnormalities.
The move prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan, saying that the Japanese government had not proved that the water discharged would be safe. The first discharge totaling 7,800 cubic meters - the equivalent of about three Olympic swimming pools of water - will take place over about 17 days.
(Source: Reuters)
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