Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he has asked China to immediately lift a ban imposed on all seafood products from Japan following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
China moved to ban all seafood from Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its controversial plan Thursday to release diluted and treated radioactive wastewater back into the Pacific Ocean. Chinese customs authorities announced Thursday that the ban will start immediately and that they will “dynamically adjust relevant regulatory measures as appropriate to…
tilman ruff is associate professor, at the melbourne school of global health. he says it s hard to say how damaging the water will be for the environment. don t really have evidence for that. that s robust. the independent expert panel that was appointed by the pacific islands forum, which engaged very closely with the iaea, with the japanese government, and with tepco, the the operator of the plant, were really not convinced, reviewing all the evidence available, that we knew either what was in the tanks or that the process that s planned would work as intended. what are some of the long term effects of consuming fish and other seafood that is been in this waste water or will be in this waste water? because this is not normal cooling water, it s been in contact with molten nuclear fuel. it contains a vast variety of of radionuclides. those behave in different ways in biological systems,