{"id":243344,"date":"2023-09-04T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=243344"},"modified":"2023-09-02T01:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T00:17:47","slug":"japanese-expert-nuclear-contaminated-water-sacrifices-the-public-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/09\/japanese-expert-nuclear-contaminated-water-sacrifices-the-public-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Expert: Nuclear-Contaminated Water Sacrifices the Public Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-243345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/fukushima-environ-japan-ocean.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>31 Aug 2023 &#8211; <\/em>&#8220;The Japanese government rejected all plans and made the decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea,&#8221; said Hayashi Kumpei, associate professor at the Fukushima University\u00a0during an interview with China Media Group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text  en\">\n<p>&#8220;This is because the people engaged in ocean-related work in Japan have the weakest power, so the government picked the weakest to target, and decided to discharge nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean in the end,&#8221; added Kumpei.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that if in the future only the government supervises the Tokyo Electric Power Company, it will probably just muddle along.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2023-08-31\/Japanese-expert-nuclear-contaminated-water-sacrifices-the-public-interests-1mIuH8PDznG\/index.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; cgtn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Aug 2023 &#8211; &#8220;The Japanese government rejected all plans and made the decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea,&#8221; said Hayashi Kumpei, associate professor at the Fukushima University\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":243345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[401,1207,1271,1129,896,1436],"class_list":["post-243344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-fukushima","tag-marine-pollution","tag-nuclear-waste","tag-oceans","tag-radioactive-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243346,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243344\/revisions\/243346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}