By CNN s Jake Kwon and Reuters
Updated 3:19 AM ET, Fri April 9, 2021
In this January 4, 2021 file photo released by Tasnim News Agency, a seized South Korean-flagged tanker is escorted by Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats on the Persian Gulf.
Seoul (CNN)A South Korean tanker seized by Iranian authorities in January has been released.
In a press release Friday, South Korea s Foreign Ministry said the Hankuk Chemi and its captain were freed early Friday Iranian time. The captain and crew s health was sound as was the cargo, the ministry said.
Iran seized the tanker at sea in January, accusing it of polluting the waters with chemicals and holding the vessel in the port of Bandar Abbas.
Japan government will release irradiated water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea 15.04.2021 - Japan - Countercurrents (Image by Stock File)
Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging against the move.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the move in Tokyo, on Tuesday. He had previously called the release “unavoidable” given the amount of accumulated water over the past decade.
The Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in the Fukushima prefecture suffered a meltdown after being struck by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a 15-meter tsunami in March 2011. It was the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl accident in the USSR.
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Decision to have fatal impact on Japanese exports
By GT staff reporters Published: Apr 14, 2021 09:59 PM
Photo taken from Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday shows the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo decided the same day to release radioactive water into the sea. Photo: VCG
Japan s decision to dump radioactive wastewater into the ocean will draw more fierce opposition from neighboring countries and regions in the near future, which could cause fatal impact on some Japanese exports that are already struggling to overcome reputational damage after the nuclear crisis a decade ago.
The Japanese government s decision to dump contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea in two years has also drawn fierce opposition by local fishermen and residents as well as the international community.
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