TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Asahi Shimbun reported that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) announced a leak of 5.5 tons of contaminated water from a purification system within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on February 7. According to the report, at around 8:55 a.m. on the same day, a worker discovered the [...]
TOKYO, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – On Thursday, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported its analysis of a sample of contaminated water scheduled for a third discharge from Tank A at its Fukushima plant for measurement and verification. The results revealed the presence of various radionuclides including carbon-14, cesium-137, cobalt-60, strontium-90, and iodine-129. Most notably, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — On the day Japan commenced the release of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, there was a notable upswing in dried seafood sales at supermarkets across South Korea. The retail industry posits that consumer apprehension regarding seafood safety following the contaminated water discharge prompted a surge in stockpiling [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The impending release of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by the Japanese government has stirred significant distress among citizens and instilled a prevailing sense of crisis among business owners in South Korea. Many are openly expressing feelings of helplessness in light of this situation. This [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A regional court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an association of civic groups to stop the planned release of contaminated water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. A coalition of 166 civic groups in the southeastern port city of Busan filed the lawsuit in April 2021 [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to soon finalize its own analysis of contaminated water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant before the neighboring country begins to discharge it into sea, the chief of the country’s nuclear safety watchdog said Thursday. “We are speeding up the analysis … and we will finalize [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In the realm of South Korean media, scant attention is being paid to the ongoing inspection mission taking place in Fukushima, Japan, where contaminated water poses a persistent threat. The reason behind this lack of coverage lies in the South Korean government’s sympathetic stance toward its Japanese counterparts, leading [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the Japanese public believes that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)’s plan to release the contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant this spring or the summer is not in the interest of the Japanese public, a survey showed Tuesday. The Japan Nuclear Energy [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — In 1993, it was discovered that the Soviet (now Russian) Navy had dumped approximately 1,000 tons of radioactive nuclear waste in the East Sea, 190 kilometers southeast of Vladivostok. Although the Soviet Union claimed that the concentration of nuclear waste released was lower than the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A top South Korean official stressed that a nuclear safety review process has not yet finished for Japan’s planned release of contaminated water from its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea. “The government’s top priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the people,” Nuclear Safety and [...]