China to ban food imports from Japan citing safety reasons
An official measures radiation levels of scallops imported from Japan as they conduct a radioactivity check, which have been conducted regularly since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, at Noryangjin fisheries wholesale market in Seoul, South Korea, July 6, 2023. — Reuters pic
Friday, 07 Jul 2023 11:22 AM MYT
BEIJING, July 7 — China will ban the import of food from about one-fifth of Japanese prefectures for safety reasons, Chinese customs said today, citing Japan’s move to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the sea.
China, the biggest buyer of Japan’s seafood exports, said it would also strictly review the documents for food, especially aquatic products, from other parts of Japan, customs said in a statement.
China customs said it would continuously strengthen the detection and monitoring of radioactive substances to ensure the safety of food imported from Japan in banning food from 10 prefectures.
The move was to prevent the export of radioactive contaminated Japanese food to China and protect the food safety of Chinese consumers’ imports, China said.
For weeks China had publicly voiced strong opposition to Japan’s move to discharge treated radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, this week gave Japan the greenlight to begin discharging more than a million metric tonnes of water used to cool the plant’s fuel rods after it was wrecked by a 2011 tsunami.
China customs said the report did not fully reflect the views of all the experts involved in the assessment process, and the conclusions were not unanimously endorsed by the experts. — Reuters
Friday, 07 Jul 2023 11:22 AM MYT
BEIJING, July 7 — China will ban the import of food from about one-fifth of Japanese prefectures for safety reasons, Chinese customs said today, citing Japan’s move to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the sea.
China, the biggest buyer of Japan’s seafood exports, said it would also strictly review the documents for food, especially aquatic products, from other parts of Japan, customs said in a statement.
China customs said it would continuously strengthen the detection and monitoring of radioactive substances to ensure the safety of food imported from Japan in banning food from 10 prefectures.
The move was to prevent the export of radioactive contaminated Japanese food to China and protect the food safety of Chinese consumers’ imports, China said.
For weeks China had publicly voiced strong opposition to Japan’s move to discharge treated radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, this week gave Japan the greenlight to begin discharging more than a million metric tonnes of water used to cool the plant’s fuel rods after it was wrecked by a 2011 tsunami.
China customs said the report did not fully reflect the views of all the experts involved in the assessment process, and the conclusions were not unanimously endorsed by the experts. — Reuters
Here's the science of why the IEA gave the approval to Japan to discharge the cooling water.
ReplyDeleteThe water used to cool the remnants of the Fukushima car has been subject to the highest level of Osmotic filtration.
There is Zero Suspended or dissolved material, radioactive or non-radioactive left in the the water. High end osmosis is perfectly able to remove everything in the water which is not H2O
It is the same process as your common RO filtered water, except of much higher specification..
What is left behind is pure H2O + tiny amounts of C14, which comes from the filters used in the Osmosis process.
However, there is a tiny amount of the remaining H2O - the "H" which is made up of Tritium - radioactive hydrogen containing 1 Proton and 2 Neutrons, atomic weight 3.
Obviously Water cannot be filtered out from Water, but the level of radioactivity is very low, especially after dilution in sea water.
China's objection is geopolitical, nothing to do with Science.
wakakaka Monster you sure hate China - should be awarded the US Congressional Medal
DeleteI abhor , detest and despise the CCP.
DeleteI'm perfectly open about that.
Wakakakaka…
DeleteKnow nothing fart AGAIN!
The Fukushima nuclear contaminated water ≠ the waste water used to cool the outer shell of the reactor core!
Do u honestly know what's Osmotic filtration?
Mfer, go read some in-depth research on Osmotic filtration before u chant about its effectiveness of radioisotopes separations!
The Japanese govt is playing on words, with a paid clownishly IAEA. Did u get a cut too to fart here?
Yankee doodle mfer, why don't u perfectly open about it endless ampu-ism of WASP culture?
ReplyDeleteOpenly display yr hatred but secretly docking yr pet love?
Can this be double standard of the f*cked kind?
Or just pure selective schizophrenic temperament!