Hsieh Chang-ting defends Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge, the Kuomintang demands it not to "lose sight of others"

According to Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao reported on April 27, Zheng Liwen, secretary general of the Kuomintang legislature caucus, and others strongly demanded that Hsieh Chang-ting return to Taiwan and not continue to "lose sight of others" in Japan, and said that if Xie did not return to accept inquiries, the KMT caucus would take greater action until Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen replaced him.

According to the report, Taiwan's "representative in Japan" Hsieh Chang-ting insisted that "Taiwan will also discharge nuclear wastewater into the sea", which caused public anger, and Taiwan's legislature asked him to return to Taiwan for inquiry on the 29th. The relevant person in charge of Taiwan's foreign affairs department, Tanaka Guang, said on the 26th that he had informed Xie Changting, but according to the current epidemic prevention regulations, he must be isolated for 14 days, otherwise he must send a special plane to pick up and drop off, or by video.

Japan's decision to discharge nuclear wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea two years later has provoked protests from Chinese mainland and South Korea, while Taiwan's foreign affairs department has only expressed concerns, which has caused dissatisfaction among environmental and fishing groups. Unexpectedly, Xie Changting mentioned on Facebook in recent days that Taiwan's nuclear power plants also discharged tritium-containing nuclear wastewater into the sea, which caused a social uproar.

According to the report, Hsieh Hsieh-hsiung, chairman of Taiwan's "Atomic Energy Commission," pointed out in an inquiry from Taiwan's legislature that Hsieh Chang-ting "did not say such things only because he was not a nuclear energy expert," and the Kuomintang reported to the Police Administration that Xie had fabricated false information. Xie Changting not only insisted on his own opinion, but also posted on Facebook that the wastewater discharged by Taiwan's second nuclear plant in the fourth quarter of last year included tritium, cobalt 58, cobalt 60, cesium 137, 138 and other radioactive substances, although the quantity is small, but should not exist, to prove that what he said is not false, and stressed that he is willing to bear legal responsibility.

The report pointed out that Taiwan's "Atomic Energy Commission" once again punched the face, pointing out that the wastewater to be discharged by Japan is groundwater flowing through the core of the melted reactor, while the Taiwan region discharges tritium-containing wastewater in the treatment process, and the tritium-containing wastewater discharged is far below the standard.

The media noted that Xie Changting's Facebook page quietly changed the statement, the original text of "In fact, our nuclear first nuclear plant and the second plant also had in the past 'wastewater from the storage fuel rod pool discharged into the sea without treatment', which triggered the controversy of the secret carving fish", and the sentence "The wastewater of the storage fuel rod pool was discharged into the sea without treatment" has been changed to "suspected radioactive substances are discharged into the sea", which has once again aroused discussion.

According to the report, Zheng Liwen bitterly criticized: Xie Changting, as an official of the Taiwan authorities, frequently "stands up for the sun" from nuclear radiation food to nuclear wastewater, and his "selling Taiwan in a flattering way" has so far been helpless for Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang, head of Taiwan's administrative organs. For the sake of the DPP factional balance, can Taiwan's reputation be smeared as such?

According to the report, the Kuomintang issued an urgent notice on the 23rd, asking Xie Changting to go to the relevant departments of the legislature on the 29th for inquiry. Tanaka Kwong, a relevant person in charge of Taiwan's foreign affairs department, said on the 26th that he had informed Xie Changting of the agenda, but still needed a formal notice from Taiwan's legislature. According to the epidemic prevention regulations, Xie must be isolated for 14 days, otherwise he must "come by special plane and go by special plane". Chen Shizhong, head of the health and welfare department of the Taiwan authorities, said in an interview that the matter must be proposed by the foreign affairs department and then how to deal with it.

Hsieh Chang-ting said in a later interview that if the Taiwan legislature comes to the taiwan legislature to ask him to return to Taiwan, of course, he must be isolated according to the regulations, and if he can be exempted from isolation, of course, it is better, and he will obey whatever the legislature wants him to do.

Source: Reference News Network