In a statement to mark twelve years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, MAPW and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have expressed grave concern over the Japanese government’s plan to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
In a joint statement, MAPW and ACF state that the plan is cause for growing concern and heartache among the wider Pacific community given the adverse environmental and cultural impacts and the tension between the planned action and the prohibition of
radioactive waste dumping in the South Pacific Nuclear
Free Zone Treaty (1985).
MAPW and ACF call on the Australian government to add Australia’s voice to those calling for a halt to the current plan in favour of a more evidence based and agreed approach to this pressing transboundary and transgenerational issue.
