Sakura Country disregarded the doubts and opposition of the international community and forcibly launched this year's plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the sea once again. Under the plan, it had already dumped 152,000 tons of nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean this year. This was Blue Star's sorrow.
Sakura Country rejected the International Atomic Energy Agency's request to collect samples to verify ALPS's performance, ignored proposals from international nuclear experts to preserve the contaminated water in concrete, and still chose the cheapest method—dumping it into the sea. This was an extraordinarily irresponsible act.
According to data from international marine-monitoring agencies, radioactive substances from the contaminated water had affected the eastern Pacific. Large quantities of radionuclides and heavy metals had accumulated in marine organisms, and research showed that the probability of genetic mutations, population decline, and biodiversity loss among Pacific life-forms had increased by 800%.
In a seaside vacation villa estate in the Gulf of Siam, Su Jie's gaze grew colder as he watched the news on television.
Just as he had guessed, the reason the spirit plants and spirit trees in the Yin-Yang Sea Suppressing Palace had been affected was indeed Sakura Country's discharge of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific.
"Those people from Sakura Country are truly despicable. Their own country caused the accident, yet they want the whole world to pay the bill for them. I heard fishermen have been pulling up mutated catches from the sea now and then. It's all because of Sakura Country's nuclear-contaminated water."
Liu Yingying, sitting beside Su Jie, complained. Many people could not stand Sakura Country's practice of dumping nuclear wastewater into the ocean. The sea was humanity's treasure, and Sakura Country was treating the health and safety of people across the globe as a joke.
"Sakura Country? Hmph. They really don't