菅首相、処分方針「近日中判断」　１３日にも原発処理水で閣僚会議

　菅義偉首相は７日夕、首相官邸で全国漁業協同組合連合会の岸宏会長と会談し、東京電力福島第１原発から出る放射性物質トリチウムを含む処理水の処分方針について意見交換した。首相は会談後、記者団の取材に応じ、処分方針を「近日中に判断したい」と表明。一方、岸会長は政府が目指す海洋放出に「絶対反対との考えはいささかも変わらない」と強調した。政府は１３日にも加藤勝信官房長官をトップとする関係閣僚会議を開く。
　政府は処理水を人体に影響が出ないレベルまで薄めて海に流す方法を検討しており、関係閣僚会議で正式決定したい考え。首相は岸会長と直接話し理解につなげる狙いだったが、両者の深い溝が改めて浮き彫りとなった。（2021/04/07-23:12）

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday said he will decide soon how to dispose of treated radioactive water at the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
   Suga made the remark to reporters after a meeting with Hiroshi Kishi, head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations.
   Meanwhile, Kishi told reporters that there is "no change at all to my absolute opposition" to the idea of releasing the water at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s plant in Fukushima Prefecture into the ocean.
   The government is considering releasing the tritium-containing water into the ocean after diluting it enough to be harmless to the human body. The idea has caused strong concerns among fishers over possible reputational damage to local seafood.
   According to Kishi, Suga said that the water needs to be disposed of in order to advance the dismantling of the TEPCO plant's reactors and reconstruction of the northeastern Japan prefecture, hit hard by the nuclear accident plus the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.