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Japan's fisheries minister has apologized for calling treated radioactive wastewater being released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant "contaminated," with the opposition bloc urging him to step down.

Last Thursday, an engineer from Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) activated a pump to begin the eventual releasing of 1,340,000 cubic meters of water sealed in the Fukushima plant grounds.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said no abnormalities were detected in seawater samples taken from around its crippled coastal Fukushima nuclear complex after it began discharging treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

The South Korean government will soon disclose a safety assessment on wastewater to be discharged from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, officials in Seoul said Wednesday, noting it respects the latest safety evaluation by the International Atomic Energy Agency. A day earlier, the UN nuclear watchdog endorsed Japan’s plans to filter and discharge the water into the Pacific Ocean in stages, saying ...

South Korean opposition rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency approval of the Fukushima water discharge on Tuesday, warning of a series of actions at home and abroad to stop the water from flowing. In a joint statement, Democratic Party of Korea lawmakers said “the IAEA report is no excuse for Japan dumping radioactive waste into the sea.” “The Japanese government must retract its plan to ...

Will Korean seafood be safe after Japan dumps Fukushima wastewater? Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Concerns are growing among South Koreans over the safety of seafood ahead of Japan's release of wastewater from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean over the course of 30 years, despite “scientific” assessments which indicate that seafood consumed by Koreans has been, and will continue to be, safe. Some consumers have already started to hoard goods like sea salt out of fear tha...

Prime Minister James Marape has backtracked on his position regarding Japan's proposed dumping of treated nuclear wastewater.

"Would you drink Fukushima water?" This seems to be a defining question in the intense debate over Japan’s planned discharge of the treated radioactive wastewater into the sea from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo became the latest figure to be brought into the debate. During his appearance at the National Assembly on Monday, he was asked the question to whic...

More than $120 billion has already been spent stabilising the stricken Fukushima site, and the crisis continues with a plan to release large volumes of contaminated water into the Pacific. Dave Sweeney and Sue Wareham report.