{"id":589837,"date":"2023-07-10T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=589837"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:37:25","slug":"s-korea-endorses-safety-of-japans-plans-to-release-fukushima-plant-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/s-korea-endorses-safety-of-japans-plans-to-release-fukushima-plant-water\/","title":{"rendered":"S Korea endorses safety of Japan&#8217;s plans to release Fukushima plant water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s government on Friday formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into sea as it tried to calm people&#8217;s fears about food contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul&#8217;s assessment was based on a 22-month review by government-funded scientists and aligned with the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s views. The agency greenlit the Japanese discharge plans this week, saying the treated wastewater would meet international safety standards and that its environmental and health impact would be negligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s government on Friday formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into sea as it tried to calm people&#8217;s fears about food contamination. Seoul&#8217;s assessment was based on a 22-month review by government-funded scientists and aligned with the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s views. The agency greenlit the Japanese discharge plans this week, saying the treated wastewater would meet international safety standards and that its environmental and health impact would be negligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}