{"id":57782,"date":"2023-08-23T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/first-edition-fukushima-water-nuclear-power-plant"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T05:45:00","slug":"wednesday-briefing-fukushima-nuclear-plant-is-set-to-flush-tonnes-of-water-into-the-sea-but-is-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57782","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday briefing: Fukushima nuclear plant is set to flush tonnes of water into the sea \u2013 but is it safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: Japan\u2019s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divided groups \u2013 is it entirely safe or staggeringly stupid?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-first-edition-newsletter-our-free-news-email\">Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s newsletter comes to you from Manchester, original home of the Guardian (est 1821), and me, Helen Pidd, your friendly north of England editor. I\u2019ll be writing the daily briefing alongside Nimo for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/first-edition-fukushima-water-nuclear-power-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s newsletter: Japan\u2019s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divided groups \u2013 is it entirely safe or staggeringly stupid?\u2022 Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Today\u2019s newsletter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2421,"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":[41,65,980,979,88,846,570,568,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fukushima","category-greenpeace","category-japan","category-japan-disaster","category-nuclear-power","category-nuclear-waste","category-waste","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\/57782","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\/2421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57783,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57782\/revisions\/57783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}