UN nuclear watchdog briefs Pacific Islands amid Fukushima water discharge concern

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Pacific Island leaders will review a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Japan's proposed Fukushima treated water release before deciding a position, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown said on Tuesday after meeting with its director general.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, waits to meet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before presenting IAEA's comprehensive report on Fukushima Treated Water Release at the prime minister's office Tuesday, July 4, 2023 in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

After a two-year review, the IAEA said Japan's plans to release some 500 Olympic size swimming pools worth of water from the Fukushima plant wrecked by a tsunami more than a decade ago were consistent with global safety standards and that they would have a "The Pacific Islands Forum, a regional bloc of 18 island nations, hadFollowing the release of the report, Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , travelled to the Cook Islands on Tuesday to...

There were "some divergent views" among Pacific Islands leaders on the issue, and the forum would see if a "convergent view" could be reached, he added, according to Cook Islands Television. The United States conducted nuclear testing in the Pacific islands in the 1940s and 1950s, while France conducted atomic testing between 1966 and 1996 at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean.

 

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