South Korean People Rally and March to Protest Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Waste Water Discharged into the Sea #SouthKorea #Fukushimawater #Japan pic.twitter.com/vmVtPC78CM
— Save the world. (@caihailu1) August 24, 2023
South Korean college students stormed into the Japanese Embassy in South Korea to protest against Japan’s nuclear sewage discharge and were arrested by the police.#Fukushima #FukushimaWaterRelease #Fukushimawater #japannuclear #Nuclearwastewater pic.twitter.com/HyBzF8yAkQ
— Aldrich (@observer888888) August 24, 2023
Hong Kong fishermen pour water onto the portrait of Japanese prime minister during a protest against the discharge of Fukushima treated radioactive water, in Hong Kong, China, 23 August 2023.
📸 EPA / Daniel Ceng#epaimages #hongkong #china #japan #fukushima pic.twitter.com/ooato1fLsr
— EPA Images (@EPA_Images) August 23, 2023
From today, Japan will begin flushing water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
The water has been treated and the UN says the plan is safe, but the move has been met with widespread protest.#9News pic.twitter.com/AQmPCjXfqA
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) August 24, 2023
It’s shocking that all countries are not banning Japanese seafood.
Why would you want to eat radiation?
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.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said the release began at 1:03 p.m. local time (0403 GMT) and it had not identified any abnormalities.
However, China reiterated its firm opposition to the plan and said the Japanese government had not proved that the water discharged would be safe.
“The Japanese side should not cause secondary harm to the local people and even the people of the world out of its own selfish interests,” its foreign ministry said in a statement.
Tokyo has in turn criticised China for spreading “scientifically unfounded claims.”
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.
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.
Seriously – check the background info on your seafood before you buy it.
I would not eat this stuff.
Obviously, if you’re in America or Europe, it’s just going to be frozen stuff, but that’s the way a lot of people buy seafood and Japan ships all over the world.
At least for a year or so, I would not eat this.
Japan has committed an international environmental crime by dumping this poison into the ocean, but I do not expect Greta to comment.
On August 24, Japanese people gathered near the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the #Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to protest against the government’s decision to dump Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean. pic.twitter.com/nLcY7nLvU0
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 24, 2023
Hundreds of South Koreans rallied in central Seoul late on Tuesday to protest against Japan’s plan to start dumping #Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/OOPC9uCKbN
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 24, 2023