200,000 people's groups demand that the Japanese government immediately stop discharging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea

On the afternoon of August 21 local time, civil groups such as the Fukushima Prefecture Peace Forum, the “Atomic Energy Information Office” and the “Japan Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs” jointly submitted a petition with a total of about 200,000 signatures to the Japanese government, strongly demanding that the Japanese government immediately stop discharging nuclear-contaminated water into the sea.

It is reported that the eighth round of discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan was launched on August 7. This discharge will continue until the 25th, with a discharge volume of about 7,800 tons.

In August last year, disregarding the widespread doubts of the international community and the strong opposition of relevant countries, the Japanese side forcibly launched and continuously promoted the discharge of 1.34 million tons of nuclear-contaminated water accumulated since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011. In response, Japanese people and experts have pointed out that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company's continuous dumping of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean without ensuring safety and reliability is extremely irresponsible and outrageous.