In response to Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company's launch of the fourth batch of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharge into the sea, ** spokesman Mao Ning said on the 28th that China firmly opposes this and asks Japan to stop this erroneous behavior.
At a regular press conference on the same day, a reporter asked: According to reports, on February 28, Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) launched the fourth batch of Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge, which is expected to last until March 17, and plans to discharge about 7,800 tons of nuclear-contaminated water. Do you have any comment?
Mao Ning said that in defiance of the concerns and opposition of the international community, Japan has discharged more than 2The 30,000 tons of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water is not in line with international law and extremely irresponsible.
The recent accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant such as the sputtering of nuclear-contaminated water and the leakage of nuclear-contaminated water from the purification device highlight the chaotic internal management of Tokyo Electric Power Company and the ineffective supervision of Japan, and the Japanese side's so-called "safe" and "reliable" arguments about the discharge into the sea cannot convince the international community at all! Mao Ning said.
Mao Ning said that the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from Fukushima concerns human health, the global marine environment, and the international public interest, and that the Japanese side should take seriously domestic and foreign concerns and properly handle them in a responsible and constructive manner. China urges Japan to fully cooperate with the establishment of an independent and effective long-term international monitoring arrangement with the substantive participation of neighboring countries and other stakeholders, so as to prevent irreversible consequences caused by the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the sea.
*: Xinhuanet reporter Dong Xue, Liu Yang).