On March 12, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin held a regular press conference.
Kyodo News reporter asked, according to the official data of China, in 2022, the content of radioactive tritium in wastewater discharged from China nuclear power plant was nine times higher than the upper limit of the annual discharge of "water treatment" plan of Fukushima nuclear power plant. Some Japanese people have expressed their dissatisfaction with this data. What is China’s comment on this?
Wang Wenbin said that we have noticed some Japanese media reports. What needs to be pointed out here is that the nuclear polluted water produced by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan is essentially different from the liquid effluent produced by the normal operation of nuclear power plants all over the world, which cannot be compared. This is a common sense.
Wang Wenbin said that the nuclear polluted water comes from the cooling water injected into the molten damaged reactor core after the accident, and the groundwater and rainwater infiltrated into the reactor, including all kinds of radionuclides in the molten reactor core, which is difficult to treat. The relevant reports focus on tritium one-sidedly, trying to create the illusion that Fukushima nuclear polluted water only contains tritium, which completely distorts the facts and misleads the public. The relevant media should stop unprofessional and irresponsible reporting.