{"id":31419,"date":"2021-04-26T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/if-its-safe-dump-it-in-tokyo-we-in-the-pacific-dont-want-japans-nuclear-wastewater"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:30:42","slug":"if-its-safe-dump-it-in-tokyo-we-in-the-pacific-dont-want-japans-nuclear-wastewater-joey-tau-and-talei-luscia-mangioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31419","title":{"rendered":"If it\u2019s safe, dump it in Tokyo. We in the Pacific don\u2019t want Japan\u2019s nuclear wastewater | Joey Tau and Talei Luscia Mangioni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s plans to discharge radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is a callous act that would do catastrophic harm<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/apr\/13\/fukushima-japan-to-start-dumping-contaminated-water-pacific-ocean\">Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater<\/a> accruing since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>To Pacific peoples, who have carried the disproportionate human cost of nuclearism in our region, this is yet another act of catastrophic and irreversible trans-boundary harm that our region has not consented to.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/26\/if-its-safe-dump-it-in-tokyo-we-in-the-pacific-dont-want-japans-nuclear-wastewater\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s plans to discharge radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is a callous act that would do catastrophic harmEarlier this month, the Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater accruing since the Fuk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,436,980,88,846,570,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fiji","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-japan-disaster","category-nuclear-power","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31420,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions\/31420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}