- By Tessa Wong
- Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News
Protesters in Seoul were jailed as they tried to go into the Japanese consular office
Japan has actually started its questionable discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant right into the Pacific Ocean, stimulating objections in the area and also revenge from Beijing.
China is the largest customer of fish and shellfish from Japan, and also on Thursday it stated it would certainly obstruct all such imports.
Japan claims the water is risk-free, and also several researchers concur. The UN’s nuclear guard dog has actually additionally accepted the strategy.
But doubters claim even more research studies require to be done and also the launch needs to be stopped.
More than a million tonnes of water saved at the nuclear plant will certainly be released over the following thirty years.
China, which has actually been one of the most singing of challengers given that the strategy was introduced 2 years earlier, called the water release an “very egocentric and also …