Hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic waste from one of history’s worst nuclear disasters is about to be dumped into the ocean, if the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) gets its way. The company wants to dispose of around 777,000 tons of water contaminated with tritium off Japan’s coast, as part of broader efforts to clean up the site of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The decision has been met with outrage from the Japanese fishing industry, along with environmentalists who fear the contaminated water could cause a marine disaster.

A nuclear byproduct, tritium is notoriously difficult to filter out from water, and is suspected to be linked to cancer. However, the company claims its tritium will be diluted to harmless levels in the ocean. As far as Tepco is concerned, it’s a done deal.

“The decision has already been made,” Tepco chairperson Takashi Kawamura said.

Let’s make Kawamura change his mind. Sign below to demand that this pollution of our oceans is not allowed.

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