Comment from Kathryn Lemoine

Keep harmful radioactive waste out of our children's food, conventionally grown or organic. Please consider the following facts and move toward correcting this situation: *Ocean dumping of 1.3 million tons of radioactive wastewater continues amid reports that 70% of the “treated” water in tanks contains more than permitted cesium, strontium, iodine (plus tritium, carbon 14 which can’t be filtered). "It is essential that we treat (filter) the water in those tanks a second time." ~ Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice director of the Research Center for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, Nagasaki University *As in the Ukraine and beyond due to Chernobyl, wild food in Japan is found to have much higher than allowed cesium in mushrooms and field greens due to Fukushima. *Fukushima Prefecture food including seafood banned by some countries is being purchased by the U.S. military and provided to service members in Japan. *TEPCO carelessly leaked 5.5 tons of highly radioactive water at Fukushima in February. Two workers hospitalized, untold amounts of radiation released into the environment. *Japan is facing litigation as over 160 citizens, fishers ask for injunction to halt dumping, Article 4 London Convention is tested: does it apply to pipelines or barrels? *Numerous Pacific Islands strongly condemn Japan’s actions including the Pacific Island Forum. Their requests have been repeatedly denied. *Engineers and scientists strongly advise against ocean dumping and offered TEPCO and Japan's government alternatives; their efforts were repeatedly refused.