TOKYO, Japan -- The release of wastewater from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific will begin on Thursday, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced, despite opposition from fishermen and protests by China.
Japan insists the gradual release of the more than 500 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water is safe, a view backed by the UN atomic agency.
Since then, operator TEPCO has collected 1.34 million tons of water used to cool what remains of the still highly radioactive reactors, mixed with groundwater and rain that has seeped in. But Tony Hooker, a nuclear expert from the University of Adelaide, dismissed that as"fear-mongering". But President Yoon Suk Yeol's government, taking political risks at home, has sought to improve long-frosty relations with Japan and has not objected to the plan.
"Nothing about the water release is beneficial to us," third-generation fisherman Haruo Ono, 71, whose brother was killed in 2011, told AFP in Shinchimachi, 60 kilometers north of the nuclear plant.
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