Japan’s government has announced it will start releasing, in two year’s time, radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The government states the water has been treated and won’t harm human or submarine life, but both environmentalists and the fishing industry are strongly against the plan, as FRANCE 24’s environment editor Mairead Dundas explains

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