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Anti-nuclear activists, including people from South Korea, gather for a rally outside Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) headquarters building Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Tokyo. A banner (bottom front) reads ‘Don't dump contaminated water into sea!’
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DOZENS of anti-nuclear activists protested today to demand Japan scrap its plan to release radioactive water from a tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant into the sea, which may begin this summer.
”Don’t dump contaminated water into sea,” protesters chanted outside the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding’s (Tepco) headquarters in Tokyo, holding banners with their demands such as “Don’t nuke the Pacific,” and “Stop contaminated water.”
The utility that operates the plant wrecked in the 2011 disaster has almost finished building the needed facilities to release the massive amounts of water, which has been speculated to begin sometime after June.
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a valuable contribution to discussions around the need to de-carbonise energy production
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