「軽率だ」「間違っている」＝環境相発言に漁業者憤り－福島

　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について原田義昭環境相が「（海に）放出して希釈するしか方法がない」と発言したことを受け、福島県の漁業関係者からは１０日、憤りの声が広がった。
　一貫して海洋放出に反対してきた県漁業協同組合連合会（県漁連）の野崎哲会長は、「立場上、軽率な発言だ」と批判。処理水の処分方法は政府の小委員会が時間をかけて検討してきたことから、「冷静な議論を行ってほしい」と求めた。
　いわき市の小名浜魚市場の運営に携わる小名浜機船底曳網漁業協同組合の柳内孝之理事は、「（小委員会で）議論が進む中で『これしか方法がない』と決めつけるのは、（やり方が）間違っている」と憤る。（2019/09/10-20:32）

Fishery industry people in Fukushima Prefecture expressed anger over Japanese Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada's remarks Tuesday that the only possible option to dispose of treated radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture is to release it into the Pacific Ocean.
   "There is no choice but to release the water (into the sea) and dilute it," Harada told a press conference.
   The remarks are "thoughtless, in light of his position," said Tetsu Nozaki, head of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations. "I want calm discussions to be held," he said, noting that a relevant government committee continues discussing how to dispose of the water.
   Nozaki has consistently voiced opposition to the release into the sea of the water from the nuclear power station, which was heavily damaged in the March 2011 powerful earthquake and tsunami.
   Contaminated water at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plant is treated by equipment to remove radioactive substances and stored at the facility. After the treatment, however, tritium, one of such substances, remains in the water.