Despite opposition from the international community, the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company are pushing ahead with the dumping of Fukushima’s nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. The Fukushima ocean dumping that began on 24 August 2023 has now been going on for a year. During this period, a whopping 55,000 tons of radioactive contaminated water has been dumped into the Pacific Ocean on seven occasions. The eighth round of ocean dumping, which will dump 7,800 tons, is underway from August 7 to 25.
The Korea Federation for Environmental Movements’ (KFEM) Ocean Committee has been continuing its activities to prevent the ocean dumping of Fukushima’s nuclear wastewater through continuous domestic and international campaigns. The ocean is not a garbage dump. The Pacific Ocean is not a place to dump Japan’s Fukushima nuclear wastewater. The ocean is an asset of humanity and the common future of humanity.
Following the scuba diving campaign held on 14 August in the waters of Yeosu Geumodo Island in the South Sea, a part of the Pacific Ocean where Fukushima nuclear wastewater is being dumped, KFEM’s Ocean Committee held a sea campaign using three rubber boats on August 18 in the waters of Eulsukdo Island in Busan, the closest island to Japan.
10 members of KFEM’s Ocean Committee from Seoul, Ulsan, Geoje, and Busan held a sea campaign in the sea off Busan, holding picket signs in Korean and English that read “Protect the sea,” “Stop Fukushima Ocean Dumping,” and “Pacific Is not Fukushima Dumping Site,” as well as radioactive marks and radioactive drums.
Originally posted on eco-health.org.
