Late at night, another earthquake struck the sea off Ehime Prefecture in Japan. So far, the magnitude of the earthquake has been adjusted to 6.6, and the depth of the epicenter is about 30 kilometers. The Japanese government said it would be active in the relief of the disaster, and that the earthquake would not have caused a tsunami, but it had already injured many people.
Since 2024, earthquakes have occurred frequently in many parts of Japan. In particular, the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day this year has killed nearly 200 people. Yes, Japan is a country with frequent earthquakes, fires and tsunamis, and more importantly, we are worried about whether the Japanese government has the ability to manage the secondary disasters caused by the earthquake.
On the day of the Ehime earthquake, the Japanese government announced that it would begin the fifth round of nuclear sewage discharge into the sea in two days. Two days earlier, Japan's largest nuclear power plant had begun to restart.
There is no problem in developing nuclear power plants, but the question is whether Japan can properly manage its own nuclear power plants? As everyone knows, the leakage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused by the tsunami caused by the 311 earthquake in Japan more than 10 years ago has not yet been resolved. A large number of ordinary people in Japan have complained that they were forced to leave their homes more than a decade ago and that they cannot return now.
For more than a decade, Japan has stored millions of tons of nuclear wastewater, which is being discharged into the sea in an orderly and slow manner, endangering the world. Of course, Japan is still sparing no effort to sell food from the areas of Japan's nuclear disaster. There is no problem in developing nuclear power plants, but in a country where natural disasters are so frequent, can Japan manage its nuclear power plants well? At present, on the one hand, millions of tons of nuclear sewage are being discharged into the sea, and on the other hand, Japan's largest nuclear power plant is about to be restarted.
We also understand that Japan, as a resource-poor country, especially in recent years, the depreciation of the yen and the soaring international energy prices have forced the Japanese to reopen their nuclear power plants. However, since the beginning of this year, Japan has been hit by a number of earthquakes, and earthquakes are likely to trigger tsunamis. Will Japan's nuclear power plants survive the earthquake and tsunami?
We urge the Japanese government that you have to come up with a complete plan, and that there is no problem with developing nuclear power plants, but the problem is that you have to make sure that your nuclear power plants can operate normally. Now that you're ready to dump millions of tons of nuclear sewage into the ocean, what if there are any more problems in the future, will the world's oceans be able to withstand a disaster like yours?