Protests erupt in Tokyo over planned Fukushima water discharge | Video

Tokyo, Aug 22 (EFE).- Several hundred people demonstrated Tuesday before Japan’s parliament against the discharge of treated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, as the government announced later this week. (Camera: EDURNE MORILLO/ YOKO KANEKO).

FOOTAGE SHOWS THE FUKUSHIMA DUMPING PROTEST IN TOKYO, JAPAN.

SOUND BITES: MIWAKO KITAMURA AND AKIHIKO KATANO, RESIDENTS OF TOKYO (IN JAPANESE).

TRANSLATION:

1. MIWAKO KITAMURA, TOKYO RESIDENT.

I feel more than concerned, and I think it can never be allowed. I cannot believe at all what TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power) says and does.

2. AKIHIKO KATANO, TOKYO RESIDENT.

The nuclear-contaminated water is still leaking its radioactivity and has not been fully treated, the discharge cannot be allowed.

Metadata

Date: 22/08/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Disaster and accident » Nuclear accident
Environmental issue
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 105 seconds
Reference: 55011744061
Relevance: Normal