(ANSA) - BEIJING, APRIL 13 - The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Japanese ambassador Koichi Aiboship, presenting a formal protest after Koo Yun Cheol, minister for the coordination of government policies, said that Seoul "strongly opposes" the release in sea of over 1.25 million tons of water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant, hit by the 2011 earthquake / tusnami. Tokyo "will release the radioactive water after diluting it to levels not harmful to humans. But the dilution will not change the total amount of radioactivity dispersed," an alliance of 31 anti-nuclear and pro-environment civic groups denounced in Seoul.
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