MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday (Oct 4) that Japan had failed to provide full information on the radioactive water being discharged from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, despite repeated requests from both Moscow and Beijing.
"We and China have repeatedly urged the Japanese side to show transparency and provide all interested states with full access to all information about the discharge of water from the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"Japan has not done this," Zakharova said."Japan has failed to properly respond to these issues and to guarantee the absence of a threat, including a long-term one." A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 triggered a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima - the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chornobyl 25 years earlier, in what was then Soviet Ukraine.
Zakharova said most of Russia's concerns would be"immediately removed if Tokyo stopped the process of draining its waste into the world's ocean", adding that China had expressed the same view.
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