Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood
Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood
Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to announce an immediate blanket ban on all aquatic products from Japan.
Japan exported about $600 million worth of aquatic products to China in 2022, making it the biggest market for Japanese exports, with Hong Kong second. Sales to China and Hong Kong accounted for 42% of all Japanese aquatic exports in 2022, according to government data.
They still can't come up with anything other than "it's not safe!" And "you're so irresponsible"?
Previous articles on this say the water is less contaminated than that which comes out of some of China's plants.
This article: IAEA says 10,000 becquerels per liter is the safe limit. Japan's output will be 63 per liter.
93China are the ultimate projectionists with this stuff. No transparency for themselves, and very quick to scream blue bloody murder about everyone else.
46And that's probably the figures China allows the international community to know. If the reports on that are anything like their emissions reports, it's not even worth the time it took to generate them.
19So true. In China, all the nuclear reactors are as radioactive as the elephant's foot. They say solar is expanding really quickly, but actually it's all a lie. Did you know under the Xi regime, absolute poverty has increased tenfold? It's very sad. China lies about Japan's nuclear safety for political reasons, so everything they say is wrong and actually my own dreams about them are reality.
10Anyone can measure it, you fill a bucket near the plant and you put a dosimeter in it through a plastic bag, if something is wrong you'll know
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According to Tepco test results released on Thursday, that water contained about up to 63 becquerels of tritium per litre, below the World Health Organization drinking water limit of 10,000 becquerels per litre. A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity.
41I live in Japan and am not at all worried about this. Maybe local seafood prices will drop. Great for us, but sucks for the fishermen and their families.
Now, if we could properly build things and not cheap out on the plans so that this doesn't happen again, that'd be great.... (also, more geothermal!)
37Are bananas next? 0.1 µSv/banana is way higher than 3.9 µSv/yr 😱
26I specifically limit myself to less than 39 bananas per year.
10That must be why gorillas at the zoo are so jacked.
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Now the chinese plastics in the water will get cancer... Smh
13This is the best summary I could come up with:
It maintains the water release is safe, noting that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also concluded that the impact it would have on people and the environment was "negligible."
Japan has requested that China immediately lift its import ban on aquatic products and seeks a discussion on the impact of the water release based on science, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.
"There are not going to be any health effects… There is no scientific reason to ban imports of Japanese food whatsoever," said Geraldine Thomas, former professor of molecular pathology at London's Imperial College.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said import bans on Fukushima fisheries and food products will stay in place until public concerns were eased.
North Korea's foreign ministry demanded that the water discharge be immediately halted, calling it a "crime against humanity", state media reported.
A few dozen protesters gathered in front of Tepco's headquarters in Tokyo holding signs reading "Don't throw contaminated water into the sea!"
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11anyone know a better radioactivity monitoring site than this one?
https://map.safecast.org/?y=37.527&x=140.969&z=10&l=0&m=2
Fukushima sure is lit up like a Christmas tree on this one.
10"Lit up like a Christmas tree" - yeah, at 4 µSv per hour. So you'd have to swim there for just about 4000 hours to get the equivalent of a full body CT scan.
29I guess camping at Chernobyl is no big deal now as well.
https://map.safecast.org/?y=51.384&x=30.078&z=12&l=0&m=2
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Because the color gradient is relative. A large enough banana would also light up. Also exposure time is another factor and this will dissipate very quickly. You can play it safe by abstain of seafood and swimming for a week.
18Radiation levels have decreased since the accident in 2011:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Fukushima_radiation_dose_map_2011-04-29.pngNote that on Safecast, you can enable "Crosshair" in the hamburger menu to see the actual numbers.
The central blob area is currently around 5 μSv/hr, so if you live there for a year it's 44000 μSv, or 44 mSv. The xkcd chart says 100 mSv is the lowest one-year dose clearly linked to increased cancer risk.
7So the yellow spots are 10 microsieverts per hour, the equivalent of a dental radiograph. A week of constant exposure will bring you up to flight attendant levels. More context can be viewed on this Wiki article.
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If Japan keeps using nuclear reactors, someone might die of cancer one day. In order to protect the environment, Japan should burn fossil gas instead!
8I know this is a political move by China, the water is (probably) fine. I also know the loss of export is not great for Japan.
But I hope this means there is a little less intensive fishing going on.
7Good / meh, nothingburger.
6Lol, isnt china already having food shortages as it is?
2Godzilla lives!
-3Thanks a lot Japan
- the rest of the world who did not agree to this
-36Japan isnt dumping water so radioactive that it glows in the dark. It is TREATED water. The only isotope that cant be easily removed is Tritium (an isotope of Hydrogen) which is highly diluted and has a relatively short half life meaning that it isnt as persistent as most other radioactive isotopes are.
TLDR: people are being stupid about this
40Thanks misinformation
15Yes we did.
7The rest of the world won't be affected, so it doesn't matter.
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