[Hankyoreh:On] Lee Won-young’s Life and No-nukes Peace Movement

Starting the “Korean and Japanese Citizens Walking March to Prevent Dumping of Radioactive Water”

2023. June 15

Reported by Lee Wonyoung

The owner of the global village must stop the Japanese government’s Dumping of Radioactive Water

Phytoplankton became a problem. This is because, depending on the type of radionuclide, it can accumulate in it at least 100,000 times the concentration of seawater and at most 1 million times. No matter how much tritium is diluted with water, the absolute amount discarded does not change. No matter where the polluted seawater flows, when the polluted seawater and phytoplankton come into contact, the pollutants are bound to accumulate in the phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are considered the basic currency of the ocean. It goes through the zooplankton that feeds on it and accumulates in fish species higher up the food chain. In the end, all life will be destroyed.

Another seriously important point is that phytoplankton also serves as the earth’s oxygen tank. Studies have already shown that the amount of phytoplankton has decreased by 40% since the 1950s. Phytoplankton absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen during photosynthesis. Much of the oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere has been produced by phytoplankton over the past 2 billion years. The more the sea is impoverished, the more the life of the earth and mankind will be threatened.

Already in 2019, Dr. Masashi Goto, a Japanese nuclear power plant engineer, visited Seoul and testified. “If stored in a tank on land for 123 years, radioactivity can be reduced to 1/1000 because of its half-life. It doesn’t cost much money.” How much would that be, considering the cost of the tank? The cost of land may be high, but there is a lot of abandoned and useless land around the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Dr. Hiroshi Makita, a science journalist who came with him, also testifies. “There are significant other nuclides besides tritium that are not removed by the ALPS unit. It is not considered ‘treated’ water and should not be dumped into the sea.”

Actually, it is true that 412 nuclear power plants in operation around the world have been leaking radiation unknowingly in the process of cooling the cooling water. It is a situation that needs to be improved technically, but there are also unavoidable parts. However, deliberately dumping contaminated water is a completely different story. It is a policy of desperation under the pretext of saving a little money. If such atrocities are actually allowed, which country will not imitate them in the future? Which descendents would not imitate? It is a terrorism that destroys humanity.

Now the owner of the global village needs to step in and fix it

The international community has been in a state of breakdown for some time. Strong countries that should lead the global village are not playing their role at all. Even though mankind hurriedly created the United Nations a long time ago, it has not yet fully fulfilled its role. Since when did the IAEA, a nuclear energy promotion organization, take the lead in such a world-important issue? The Earth cannot be left to the United States or the United Nations, which are just watching the IAEA’s absurd behavior.

There is no other choice. Now, the owner of the global village has to step in and correct it on our own. The world has become more complex and the demand for systems that manage power has grown. We must confront and respond. We need to act and reorganize the order properly. Because that is how we survive. This walk by Korean and Japanese citizens is one of those steps. When marching on foot, it is easy to bring the will of the people together. Gandhi also led India’s independence on foot.

‘Korean and Japanese Citizens Walking March to Prevent Dumping of Radioactive Water’ will leave Seoul on June 18 at 10:30 after holding a press conference in front of the statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin in Gwanghwamun, the epicenter of the candlelight revolution.

500km to Busan, and after crossing the sea by boat, 1100km from Shimonoseki to Tokyo, walking a total of 1600 km for 86 days, will arrive on September 11th.

I plan to record messages from citizens I meet while walking an average of 20km a day, and deliver a collection of letters when I arrive at the Japanese Diet Building in Tokyo. Copies will also be delivered to the Japanese Cabinet, the Korean government and the National Assembly. And I will share the process of all these journeys with the global villagers.

The progress schedule and information are introduced in detail on the Daum website.

https://cafe.daum.net/earthlifesilkroad/kUxW

Since it is summer, I walk in the morning (7:00-10:00) and in the late afternoon (4:30-7:30). Anyone can apply and walk. Walking together we can make a change.

Lee Wonyoung leewysu@gmail.com

Original Article >> http://www.hanion.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=28901

(translated by Yoonhwa Cha)

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