The newly appointed executive director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission(WCPFC) tasked to take on the cause of protecting the world’s tuna stocks has raised alarm by Japan’s plan to release nuke wastewater in the Pacific Ocean.
Japan’s plan to release over a million tons of radioactively contaminated cooling water from its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean is expected to begin in early March or April 2023.
The release of nuke waste water is expected to harm marine life especially the Pacific billion-dollar industry, Tuna.
Rhea Moss-Christian 48, told a press conference with Journalists at the WCPFC19 in Da Nang, she wished the Japanese government will delay the release of the nuclear wastewater because of the risks involved.