By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, chairman of the Pacific Islands bloc, said that science supported Japan's ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSSYDNEY - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, chairman of the Pacific Islands bloc, said that science supported Japan's decision to pump treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, but that the region may not agree on the"complex" issue.
Japan has said that the water release is safe. The International Atomic Energy Agency , the U.N. nuclear watchdog, greenlighted the plan in July, saying that it met international standards and that the impact it would have on people and the environment was"negligible". "I believe that the discharge meets international safety standards," Brown said in a statement on Wednesday. He added the IAEA would continue to monitor the water during the discharge process.
In a region that had suffered from the effects of nuclear weapons testing by outside powers, it was a"complex issue", he said. The United States conducted nuclear tests in the Pacific Islands in the 1940s and 1950s, and France between 1966 and 1996.A Pacific Nuclear Free Zone was established in 1985 under a treaty that prevents the dumping of radioactive materials.
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