A group of South Korean civic activists, politicians, fishermen and ordinary people gathered in central Seoul to raise their voice against the International Atomic Energy Agency's report on Japan's planned discharge of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific.
The protesters demonstrated near the South Korean foreign ministry building, where the visiting IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi was scheduled to meet with the South Korean foreign minister.
"TEPCO and the Japanese government, which have already caused radioactive contamination beyond the standard since the Fukushima accident, cannot be justified for any reason for irresponsibly polluting the sea again," it noted. The proposed plans included geosphere injection, underground burial, hydrogen release and vapor release as well as the discharge into the ocean.
Park expressed his absolute opposition to the discharge plan, which he said was picked by Japan just to save costs but would harm the entire ocean and the health of people around the world, asking Japan to keep the contaminated water on land after the ALPS treatment.
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