TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered his fisheries minister to apologise on Thursday (Aug 31) for referring to treated radioactive water being released from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant as 'contaminated' and told him to retract his remark. Fisheries minister Tetsuro Nomura was heard calling the treated radioactive water 'contaminated' when speaking to reporters earlier in the day...
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered his fisheries minister to apologise on Thursday for referring to treated radioactive water being released from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant as "contaminated" and told him to retract his remark.
He said his discussions with the premier involved "the evaluation of the contaminated water" after its release into the Pacific. Japan is calling the water it is releasing into the ocean "ALPS treated water" to differentiate it from the contaminated water held in tanks around the wrecked plant site. "It's deeply disappointing that he made such a remark. I've instructed Minister Nomura to issue an apology as well as retract what he said," Kishida said on Thursday when asked for comment.
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