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Podcast: Radioactive Show
Episode: Japan - Don't dump on the Pacific!
Description: On Thursday 24th August, 2023, Japan's TEPCO electric company began discharging radioactive waste water into the Pacific. The waste water comes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which went into meltdown following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. There is 1.3 million tonnes of water is currently held in tanks at the power plant, which TEPCO plans to release over the next 30-40 years. In response, protests have erupted across the Pacific Asia region and the world. I attended one protest outside the Japanese embassy in Te Whanganui a Tara / Wellington in Aotearoa, and includes speeches from the protest, alongside a s...