About 150 people from prefectures such as Fukushima and Miyagi traveled to court today. To request a court order to stop the release of radioactively contaminated but treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This is the first legal action of this kind.
Kyodo News Agency reported that in the documents submitted to the Fukushima District Court, The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, which operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. In the complaint it is stated that The release of the water, which began on August 24, threatens citizens' rights to live safely and hinders fishermen's business. The plaintiff also wants the wastewater discharge to stop. and request that regulatory approvals for water releases and nuclear matters be invalidated.
A group of citizens headed to the Fukushima City Court on September 8 to file a lawsuit asking the court to stop the release of water from and to the Kyodo nuclear power plant.
The Japanese government has allowed the start of the release of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, saying it is necessary to move forward with the decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant's reactors. Damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 Huge quantities of radioactively contaminated water are created from the power-cooling process of a melting nuclear reactor. The water is stored in approximately 1,000 large tanks and has gone through a treatment process. - Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency