SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear safety watchdog said Wednesday it plans to urge its Chinese and Japanese counterparts to monitor Japan’s future releases of Fukushima water in line with international safety standards during a high-level tripartite meeting later this week. The Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) will attend the 15th [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Five opposition lawmakers plan to visit the United States and Europe this week to garner global support against Japan’s ongoing discharge of water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) said Tuesday. Reps. Lee Soo-jin and Lee Yong-sun from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 out of every 10 South Koreans are opposed to Japan’s release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, a public opinion poll showed Friday. The survey conducted on 1,000 South Korean adults on Tuesday and Wednesday by Research View showed 72.4 percent [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of people rallied in Seoul on Saturday to protest Japan’s release of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The rally was held near City Hall, with the participation of some 90 civic groups who have formed a coalition to protest the water release, and members [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean environmental groups staged protests Tuesday following Japan’s announcement of a plan to begin dumping radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean this week. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said earlier in the day that Japan will begin releasing the water Thursday. A coalition [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will conduct a full radiation test on school meals to check their safety amid concerns over Japan’s plan to release contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said Saturday. The education office initially planned to conduct sample tests on school [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung on Monday rejected Japan’s claims of the safety of the water set to be released from its crippledFukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, saying if it is safe enough to drink, the country should just do that. The safety of the contaminated water from [...]
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, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday denied a Japanese media report claiming the Seoul government agreed to Tokyo’s plan to release radioactive water into the ocean from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Earlier this week, a Japanese news agency reported that the new Yoon Suk-yeol government appears to be planning [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog has formed a team of experts, including a South Korean researcher, to monitor Japan’s planned discharge of treated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, the government said Friday. Kim Hong-suk, a nuclear expert from the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS), joined the [...]