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/PRNewswire/ -- The clear sound of ping-pong balls hitting paddles resonates throughout the bright training hall. At a table, 23-year-old Geoffrey Loi is...
Japan's nuclear regulator granted approval on Friday for utility company Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), which ran the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to start the country's controversial plan to dump a million tons of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean. On the same day, China, which has expressed its firm opposition to the plan, announced a continuation of its previous ban on imported food from Japan's Fukushima and nine other regions.
The clear sound of ping-pong balls hitting paddles resonates throughout the bright training hall. At a table, 23-year-old Geoffrey Loi is practicing ping-pong with a Chinese player while a Chinese coach stands beside him, providing guidance on how to improve his stance and grip on the paddle.
Opposition against Japan's plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean was mounting at home and abroad on Wednesday as Japan is reportedly to begin the dumping plan as early as August, bolstered by the IAEA's latest report to greenlight its plan.
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