海洋放出決定は時期尚早　原発処理水、風評被害を懸念―自民有志

　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海洋放出に慎重な自民党有志が１７日、衆院議員会館で勉強会の初会合を開いた。風評被害の懸念がある海洋放出を現時点で決めるのは国民の理解を得られないとの認識で一致。勉強会が党内の意見集約を主導し、政府への要望を取りまとめることを確認した。
　政府は、原発敷地内の処理水タンクが２０２２年秋ごろに満杯になることから、海洋に放出する方針。全国漁業協同組合連合会などは反対している。勉強会の呼び掛け人の一人、山本拓元農林水産副大臣は会合後、「海洋放出が唯一の選択肢ではない」と記者団に述べた。（2020/12/17-21:24）

A group of lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Thursday to ask the government to consider alternatives to the planned release into the ocean of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
   At their first meeting, the members also affirmed a plan to submit to the government their written request concerning the treatment of the ever-increasing waste water at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s 2011 disaster-crippled plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
   The tanks on the premises of the plant to store the treated water are expected to reach their full capacity around autumn 2022.
   The government plans to release the water into the sea off the northernmost prefecture, whose food products have already been hit by rumors about contamination with the radioactive fallout from the March 2011 meltdowns at the TEPCO plant.
   Zegyoren, or the national federation of fisheries cooperative associations, as well as local fishers, opposes the plan out of concerns that the move will further cause harmful rumors.