South Korean opposition step up pressure on government to condemn Japan’s Fukushima water release

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On Thursday, lawmakers from the main opposition Democratic Party started an overnight sit-in inside the National Assembly to protest the IAEA report and the Fukushima wastewater release.

, who will be in South Korea on Friday following his four-day visit in Tokyo.

Several of the Fukushima Daiichi plant's reactors went into meltdown after cooling systems were overwhelmed by a tsunami in 2011.enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming poolsThe wastewater has been filtered to remove most radioactive elements except for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is difficult to separate from water.The water storage tanks at the Fukushima site are estimated to be full as early as next year, and space for building more is scarce.

“What can we do?” said one vendor. “We don’t have the power to stop it, and so I just hope the discharge will have a very limited impact.”

 

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