By Do Gyun Kim and Jimin Jung SEOUL (Reuters) - Protesters gathered in the capital of South Korea on Saturday to demand that the government take steps ...
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Japan began dumping the water from the Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo into the sea on Thursday despite objections both at home and abroad from fishing communities and others worried about the environmental impact. The utility responsible for the plant, Tokyo Electric Power has been filtering it to remove isotopes, leaving only tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that is hard to separate.
South Korea has said it sees no scientific problems with the water release but environmental activists argue that all possible impacts have not been studied.Japan says it needs to start releasing the water as storage tanks holding about 1.3 million metric tons of it - enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools - are full.
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