原発の処理水放出「福島以外で」　福島市長

　福島市の木幡浩市長は９日の記者会見で、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んだ処理水の処分方法について、「福島と名前の付かないところで海洋放出してほしい」と述べた。
　木幡氏は「福島県沖で（放出）すれば、どんなに補償があっても風評被害を受けるのは間違いない」と指摘。「巨大なタンカーで持っていき、できるだけ影響の少ないところですべきだ」と語った。遠くまで運べなければ「福島第１原発の発電で恩恵を受けたところで放棄するのが筋」との見解を述べ、首都圏での放出を暗に示した。（2020/04/09-14:23）

The mayor of the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Thursday called for treated radioactive water at the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to be dumped outside Fukushima Prefecture.
   "I want the water to be released into the ocean at a location that does not include 'Fukushima' in its name," Hiroshi Kohata said at a press conference in the capital city of the prefecture. "If it's released near the prefecture, it will certainly cause it to suffer harmful rumors," he said.
   The treated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plant, which suffered a triple meltdown following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and monster tsunami in March 2011, still contains radioactive tritium.
   "The water should be carried in a giant tanker and dumped in a place where it will cause as small an effect as possible," the mayor said.
   If this cannot be done, the water should be dumped near the Tokyo metropolitan area, Kohata suggested. "It makes sense to dispose of it at a place that has benefited from the power generation at the Fukushima No. 1 plant," he said. Before the nuclear accident, the electricity produced at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture was sent to and consumed in the metropolitan area.