South Korea’s Yoon walking a political tightrope amid Japan’s Fukushima water release plans

 

The South Korean government said that Japan's plan to release wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meets international standards and that the water would not have any significant effects on ecosystems off the coasts of South Korea.

Japan has faced opposition to its plan, despite recent assurances from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the wastewater is safe after being filtered to remove most isotopes. Much of the water had been used to cool reactors at the now-crippled power plant that was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.