Contaminated Water Crisis: Japan’s Plan to Release Fukushima Water into the Ocean Sparks Concerns and Backlash

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) [...]