Tag: Fukushima

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva While Japan’s discharge of nuclear waste waters into the Pacific from its Fukushima nuclear plant has been drawing flak across...

RNZ Pacific One of Fiji's three deputy prime ministers, Viliame Gavoka, has appealed to the country's prime minister to review his stance on Japan's disposal...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Japan yesterday began the decades-long release of more than one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Japan's release of more than one million tonnes of treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the Pacific is officially underway. Tokyo...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Japanese government spokesperson says it is "not wilfully trying to divide the Pacific" over the Fukushima treated nuclear...

Asia Pacific Report The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Aotearoa, the longest running women’s peace group in New Zealand, has called on...

By Aralai Vosayaco in Suva The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) is disappointed with the Fiji government and Pacific Islands Forum’s endorsement of the Japanese...

RNZ Pacific Japan plans to start releasing treated nuclear wastewater from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean as soon as later this...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific anti-nuclear advocacy groups and campaigners have condemned the Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has told RNZ Pacific its standards are not outdated. It comes as...

By Peter Boyle in Sydney As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its...

By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau says Pacific security is about the security of the Pacific...

ANALYSIS: By Ming Wang Public opinion will dictate how Japanese seafood is received after the wastewater is disposed of into the Pacific Ocean. The global seafood...

EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Activists from the Fukushima Anti-Nuclear Indonesia (IANFU) movement in Indonesia have held an action commemorating International Ocean Day demanding that the...

By Jean Bell in Auckland A loose collection of elite groups shape the global language and thinking around food safety in the nuclear era, says...