File photo taken on Oct. 12, 2017 shows huge tanks that store contaminated radioactive wastewater in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.-Photo: Xinhua
On April 13, the Japanese government decided to discharge nuclear wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. It argued that this move was “inevitable”, “urgent” and “a choice after careful study”. And there were precedents to follow. And the wastewater would be treated according to international standards.
To prove the safety of nuclear wastewater, a few senior officials even claimed that "the nuclear wastewater is okay to drink".
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