China News Service, Beijing, May 17 (Reporter Guo Chaokai Xing Chong) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on May 17.
A reporter asked: According to reports, recently, Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan has started the seabed excavation operation 1 km offshore from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, in preparation for the construction of a submarine pipeline outlet for the discharge of nuclear polluted water.
What is China's comment?
Wang Wenbin: I have noticed the above report and am deeply concerned about it.
The Pacific Rim countries, including China, are seriously concerned and firmly opposed to Japan's erroneous decision to discharge water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident into the ocean.
180,000 people in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture and other regions signed a joint signature, demanding that the Japanese government adopt other disposal options other than sea exclusion.
However, in disregard of international concerns, Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company has abandoned its previous promise that it will never discharge the sea without the public's understanding, and forcibly pushed forward the construction of the nuclear-polluted water discharge project. This attempt to create a fait accompli is irresponsible.
The Japanese government should stop it immediately.
The Japanese government has so far failed to provide a sufficient and credible explanation on the legitimacy of the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge plan, the reliability of nuclear-contaminated water data, the effectiveness of purification devices, and the uncertainty of environmental impact, which the Japanese side cannot avoid. Objective fact.
We once again urge the Japanese side to pay attention to the legitimate and reasonable concerns of the international community and the Japanese people, revoke the wrong decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea, stop all preparations for the discharge, and earnestly fulfill its due international obligations.
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