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3. National flag of Japan
4. Japan's National Diet building

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8. Various of people protesting government's decision to dump nuclear polluted water into sea

"Not one drop" of Japan's Fukushima radioactively contaminated water should be released until the world is convinced that the water has been treated to remove nuclides to non-detectable levels, a prominent U.S. marine conservation biologist wrote in an article last week.

The Japanese government announced last month it had decided to discharge contaminated radioactive wastewater in Fukushima Prefecture into the sea.

The Biden administration must urge Japan to abandon this unnecessary and dangerous plan, wrote Rick Steiner in his article published in the Anchorage Daily News last Sunday.

As of Dec. 31, 2019, 73 percent of the nuclear wastewater exceeded Japan's discharge standards after treatment by an advanced liquid processing system (ALPS) capable of removing most contaminants, according to a report from an organization researching the treatment of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear accident.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator handling the contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear accident, has a record of covering up and falsifying information, according to media reports.

Steiner pointed out that Japan's planned release has "the risk is entirely unnecessary and avoidable". He said the action would result in dangerous radionuclides flowing across the ocean to Russia, Alaska, Canada, Hawaii and the U.S. west coast.

He said that as TEPCO and the government of Japan are no longer credible sources of information on Fukushima, the international community should appoint an Independent Scientific and Technical Commission - independent from the International Atomic Energy Agency - to review all information about the Fukushima cleanup, including the wastewater problem, and offer transparent, independent scientific and technical advice.

He also called for concerned U.S. citizens to press the Biden administration to register its immediate objection to this planned release of radioactive water, and to offer U.S. financial and technical assistance in effectively treating the wastewater and cleaning the disaster site, as it is part of the U.S. national interest.

"Unless and until this wastewater is independently certified as effectively free of radionuclides and safe, not one drop should be released into the beautiful deep blue Pacific," he said.