Tag: Japanese nuclear waste
Brown’s ‘backflip’ over Japanese nuclear wastewater dump poses challenge for Forum
COMMENTARY: By Brittany Nawaqatabu in Suva
Regional leaders will gather later this month in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga...
China’s Shandong Province expands its climate footprint to the Pacific
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...
Rabuka’s nuclear wastewater discharge stance splits Fiji coalition opinion
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...
‘The ocean is suffering’ – protesters fume over NZ silence on...
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...
Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...
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...
NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release
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...
Japan to release treated Fukushima nuclear wastewater in weeks
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...
Anti-nuclear group condemns Fiji PM Rabuka’s Fukushima wastewater stance
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...
UN nuclear watchdog boss defends position on Japan’s wastewater dump
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The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has told RNZ Pacific its standards are not outdated.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...
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests
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...
Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor...
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...
