Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood

A government using "safety" for political reasons? Never seen thst before.

Fish accumulate toxins and heavy metals as you move up the food chain. This is well-known.

Even though swordfish swim in waters that have perfectly safe mercury concentrations, eating swordfish everyday is inadvisable because of their high mercury contents.

Or just compare the dangers of microplastic, of which China is quite a source. The microplastic will be around long after (most of) the tritium is long gone.

Do those towns produce food?

Im almost 100% sure you pulled this propoganda out of your ass.

Edit: i concede, there is at least 1 known toxic waste dump area in China that has a lake full of rare earth metals

Wasn't that virus issue that we just had and continued to have caused from wet markets over there?....or no that was the Japanese who caused it right?

/S if no one got the joke

Does China even fish in Japanese waters?

This is standard geopolitical bullshit. They wanted to ban seafood imports from Japan and this is a good excuse. Radiation is easily detected. It's not like they would be taking some unpredictable , unknowable risk here. The radiation contamination risk isn't the point at all.

It's the same as the international beef market. A cow falls over in Alberta somewhere and suddenly 5 countries ban Canadian beef imports across the board. The reason they give is "because of the possibility of mad cow" but the truth is they're constantly looking for an excuse to issue protectionist measures .

China release more tritium in the sea than what is planned at Fukushima, so yeah...

No poison acts like a boolean value, it's all about dosage and exposure. The idea that fish closer to the contamination site will be more contaminated than fish farther away seems pretty obvious.

If I stand next to you while you fart, I will smell more than if I stand a kilometer away.

Mind you, I'm not saying China is right, it's obviously a political ploy. But I disagree with your logic.

This is tritiated water, that is water with tritium (aka hydrogen-3 , regular hydrogen [a proton] with two additional neutrons) in place of regular hydrogen.

Tritium has a half life of 12 years. The incident was in 2011, so there's been one half life already. The remaining tritium will be diluted with seawater and naturally decay over a few more half lives until it's indistinguishable from background radiation.

Edit: the decay product is helium and an electron +and strictly speaking a neutrino, but those don't really interact with much so we can ignore it). Nothing to really worry about!

My understanding is that they can chemically remove damn near everything except the tritium. It’s because the tritium hydrogen atoms aren’t in the place of regular hydrogen in H2O.

So essentially they can’t filter the water out of the water, if that makes sense.

https://www.grunge.com/1331356/how-radioactive-water-treated/

Which shows one of two things: Either you were fast asleep in physics in school, or your physics teacher was an idiot.

All that tritium water release is about as "dangerous" as losing 70-80 glow-in-the-dark wristwatches in the ocean. And in comparison to the microplastics issues, the Fukushima water is laughably harmless.

You do realise that the potassium alone in your body is more radioactive than that water, right?

You are literally more radioactive.

This isn't even worth a story.

LMAO. This IS a joke, right?

It's pretty bad when you're this misinformed and frankly, extremely ignorant on a topic and then make a comment like this.

Yeah, it would be interesting to see that ever happen.

yeah nah

Then you better don't eat bananas. Because bananas are more radioactive than the Fukuchima water.