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10 years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident occurred due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan held an online briefing session for Korean reporters.
He said that there was no place to store the contaminated water and said that he would release it to the sea next year.
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The Fukushima nuclear power plant was destroyed by the Great East Japan Earthquake 10 years ago.
Even now, 140 tons of contaminated water containing radioactive materials are newly created every day.
Japan is sticking to a policy of dumping contaminated water into the sea or atmosphere, saying that the storage space will be full by next summer.
Meanwhile, Japan's Foreign Ministry and Tokyo Electric Power Company held an online briefing session for Korean reporters on an unusual basis.
We listened to any changes in the plan, but repeated the position that release is inevitable next year.
[Tennis shoes Hee reporter: unchanged, also the total amount of diluted mixture of water baechulhae tritium, I'm also the eyes of scientists does not fit the Radiation Protection Code -
The Sea of Japan is diluted in water, yet right thing as a pollutant The total amount in question They replied that releasing it is a common way around the world, and that they will release it slowly over 3 to 40 years.
Contaminated water contains tritium that exceeds the standard and plutonium, which is fatal to the human body.
Domestic scientists have expressed disappointment with Japan for not looking for a way to do it in their own country.
[Gyun-Ryeol Seo/Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University: If the contaminated water is clean, do not release it, but make an artificial lake or secure land nearby.
(It can be treated as tritium, which Japan doesn't do).]
This briefing seems to be one of the public opinion exhibitions to reduce the distrust of the international community ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Comes out.
(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)