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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.

China is "highly concerned about the risk of radioactive contamination brought by... Japan's food and agricultural products," the customs bureau said in a statement.

The Japanese government signed off on the plan two years ago and it was given a green light by the U.N. nuclear watchdog last month. The discharge is a key step in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi plant after it was destroyed by a tsunami in 2011.

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[–] Vecto@sopuli.xyz 82 points 1 year ago (29 children)

The water is less radioactive than humans, the ban is purely political and in no way safety related

[–] Aliendelarge@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure. Because Chinese food regulations are notoriously tight and the populace is so protected from contaminated foods.

I'm guessing this has more to do with fishing rights in the South China Sea and this is just convenient for them.

[–] j7889@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Well China should ban their own fish, since they release waste tritium themselves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

[–] lasagna@programming.dev 57 points 1 year ago (16 children)

China has entire towns that are toxic wastelands. This is just a political statement, probably their usual brainwashing of self.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Does that mean China will stop fishing in those waters too?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let them worry about minute amounts of tritium in the ocean - it is political hubhub, nothing more. The tritium is less pollution and will vanish faster than microplastics in the seas.

[–] Sodis@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And they release way more plastics in the sea, which is way more critical than the tritium.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone who thinks dumping toxic material into the ocean is fucking stupid.

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