CoveragePost
May 26, 2025
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Eighty years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the Second World War, the threat of nuclear fallout remains. Last Monday, the UN Human Rights Council issued a formal communication to the Japanese government regarding serious concerns raised by Pacific ... <a title="Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/26/activists-call-for-pacific-nuclear-justice-global-unity-and-victim-support/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call for Pacific nuclear justice, global unity and victim support">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 23, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Japanese government spokesperson says it is “not wilfully trying to divide the Pacific” over the Fukushima treated nuclear wastewater release. Japan is set to start discharging more than one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean tomorrow (local time). This comes 12 years after a ... <a title="Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/23/countdown-starts-as-japan-poised-to-release-first-batch-of-treated-nuclear-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated nuclear wastewater">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 23, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Aotearoa, the longest running women’s peace group in New Zealand, has called on the Japanese government to change its plan to release treated nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the Pacific Ocean. The protest comes as Pacific leaders remain ... <a title="NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/23/nz-womens-peace-group-protests-over-imminent-fukushima-nuclear-wastewater-release/" aria-label="Read more about NZ women’s peace group protests over imminent Fukushima nuclear wastewater release">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 4, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its nuclear waste water into the Pacific. Japan is planning to ditch over one million tonnes of ALPS-treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific ... <a title="Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/04/nuclear-experts-offer-to-take-a-sip-of-japans-treated-reactor-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear experts offer to ‘take a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
June 23, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Independent nuclear experts have offered to drink water and eat fish from the Pacific Ocean after Japan dumps its nuclear waste water into the Pacific. Japan is planning to ditch over one million tonnes of ALPS-treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific ... <a title="Nuclear experts offer ‘taking a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/23/nuclear-experts-offer-taking-a-sip-of-japans-treated-reactor-wastewater/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear experts offer ‘taking a sip’ of Japan’s treated reactor wastewater">Read more</a>
