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HK to activate control measures on seafood from Japan
This comes in the face of Tokyo’s decision to release radioactive water from its Fukushima plant.
Hong Kong’s ban covers live, frozen, refrigerated, dried aquatic products, sea salt and seaweed. (Wikimedia Commons pic)
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday he strongly opposes Japan’s release into the sea of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and the city would “immediately activate” import controls on Japanese seafood.
Japan will on Thursday begin releasing more than a million tons of water from the plant north of Tokyo, insisting it is safe to do so. The plant was wrecked in a 2011 tsunami and the water has mostly been used to cool damaged reactors.
Though approved by the UN nuclear watchdog, the plan to dump the water has faced opposition at home and abroad, including from China, over worries about food safety.
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said the release was “irresponsible” and posed “impossible risks to food safety and the irreparable pollution and destruction of the marine environment”.
Lee, in a post on his Facebook account, said he had told the secretary for the environment and ecology and relevant departments to immediately activate import controls to protect food safety and public health.
Hong Kong’s government announced in July that the ban would apply to imported aquatic products from the Japanese regions of Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama.
It covers live, frozen, refrigerated, dried aquatic products, sea salt and seaweed.
Hong Kong is Japan’s second largest market, after mainland China, for agricultural and fisheries exports.
Japanese restaurants are popular in the special administrative region and Japan is a favourite holiday destination for many residents.
Many Japanese restaurants in the city are grappling with the looming ban, with some planning to add more meat to their menus as they anticipate losses of up to 40%.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday he strongly opposes Japan’s release into the sea of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and the city would “immediately activate” import controls on Japanese seafood.
Japan will on Thursday begin releasing more than a million tons of water from the plant north of Tokyo, insisting it is safe to do so. The plant was wrecked in a 2011 tsunami and the water has mostly been used to cool damaged reactors.
Though approved by the UN nuclear watchdog, the plan to dump the water has faced opposition at home and abroad, including from China, over worries about food safety.
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee said the release was “irresponsible” and posed “impossible risks to food safety and the irreparable pollution and destruction of the marine environment”.
Lee, in a post on his Facebook account, said he had told the secretary for the environment and ecology and relevant departments to immediately activate import controls to protect food safety and public health.
Hong Kong’s government announced in July that the ban would apply to imported aquatic products from the Japanese regions of Tokyo, Fukushima, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama.
It covers live, frozen, refrigerated, dried aquatic products, sea salt and seaweed.
Hong Kong is Japan’s second largest market, after mainland China, for agricultural and fisheries exports.
Japanese restaurants are popular in the special administrative region and Japan is a favourite holiday destination for many residents.
Many Japanese restaurants in the city are grappling with the looming ban, with some planning to add more meat to their menus as they anticipate losses of up to 40%.
Once upon a time, in a world far removed from 2023 Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government was famous for competence and integrity.
ReplyDeleteJust like the Malaysian Government, the Hong Kong government has today been "dumbed down" by politicisation, especially brainlessly obeying directions from Beijing.
Mfer, r u sure of yr fart about the door conditionings of pommie controlled HK?
Delete"famous for competence and integrity"
Wow…
How about Kayne greediness & HM's farts r all fragrant commands?
One thing I fault the Japanese government is they need to do a MUCH better job explaining the science and tech behind what they plan to do, in terms that laymen can understand. And invite independent experts and agencies to verify the safety of what they actually release.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the detailed explanations shared out , and they are very sensible.
Radiation can be very dangerous, but there is a clear science about it.
Radiation is not some kind of ghost.
There is Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation. Sources of radiation , in water, in this case of the original contaminated water, are suspended solids, dissolved molecules and ions, and radioactive water itself.
Japan has worked through the removal of ALL suspended solids and ALL dissolved molecules and ALL dissolved ions from the water.
There is no magic. The technology exists , and Japan, one of the world's top scientific and engineering nations definitely has the capability.
What is left behind is a very small amount of water made out of Tritium, hydrogen with additional two neutrons, which makes it radioactive, and impossible to remove from water, because it is just another form of water H2O.
Is it safe to drink directly ?
No, just as drain water is not safe to drink. But diluted in theocean , there is no ecological pollution to talk about.
1 cubic kilometer of water, which is nothing in terms of the Pacific Ocean, contains 1,000 Million tonnes of water.
So if Japan releases 1 Million tonnes of almost pure water into the ocean, the dilution is 1 to 1,000.
BTW, the conversion of the surrounding elements enclosed within a radionuclide into other elements - radioactive or non radioactive - is a stochastic event via nucleui bombardment.
DeleteBut over the very long half-life of the original initiator radionuclide the chance is very high. This can be confirmed via the high concentration of the other radioactive radionuclides within the currently mined uranium ore.
The spread of continuous radiation evolution (noted the difference with radioactive fission) stops until all the radioactive radionuclides r been embedded within a stable surrounding element such as lead or all radiations have been exhausted via time!
Wakakaka…
ReplyDelete"MUCH better job explaining the science and tech behind what they plan to do, in terms that laymen can understand"
Mfer, that 倭寇 administration has done his best in fooling his citizen & the rest of the world as if during his glorified Eastern empire dream!
"Japan has worked through the removal of ALL suspended solids and ALL dissolved molecules and ALL dissolved ions from the water"
Wow… exhibiting yr know-nothing scientific farts of twist of reversed osmosis process!
"left behind is a very small amount of water made out of Tritium"
Ain't this going against yr fart of
"Japan has worked through the removal of ALL suspended solids and ALL dissolved molecules and ALL dissolved ions from the water"?
Ooop…. U have conveniently ignored other unmentioned/unkown radionuclides that r accouning for the high measured radiation level in the filtered/treated Fukushima nuckear 'wasted' water!
Check - the acceptance radiation levels of Japan & US vis-a-vis tritium!
Mfer, radiactivity dilution has been commonly twisted by evil & ignorant dickheads to account for the safety of mixing small amount of radioactive radionuclides with huge quantity of common substance, especially normal water, to drown out the radioactivity level.
This is a fallacy - due to the very long half-life of the radioactive radionuclides with constant emissions of radiation, eventually those ambient surrounding elements enclosing the radioactive radionuclides would themselves been converted into other radioactive elements via constant subatomic particle bombardments.
Eventually there r more radioactive elements presence than the original level over the duration of influence!
Wouldn't the radioactivity increases over time then?
Ignorant mfer, keep yr f*cked science to itself & hopefully u live with them!
Here is an analogy for most of us to ponder about the Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharge into the Pacific ocean.
ReplyDeleteWhen those 'diluted' water been discharged into the ocean, many ocean living beings would be affected to various extend & level.
Many would quickly mutate due to the radiation effect.
NOTE the radiation effect can be corelated to (1) nucleoid concentration level
(2) radiation exposure level
(1) & (2) have close relation yet separately the effect different is time lapse.
High nucleoid concentration had high radiation level. Thus faster after effect.
Low concentration has low radiation level. But the aftereffect takes longer time to exhibit.
Thus many of these affected ocean beings would undergo mutations of various stages.
No detail study has been done on this.
Social Darwinism exists too in the ocean environment. Eventually only the fittest survive. & only those that have undergo substantial mutations can survive in a constantly nucleoid-fed Fukushima waste discharged environment.
Would anyone of u game to try these mutated marine species?
Ooop… would that know-nothing mfer lives long enough to face that day?
Typical know-nothing brainless Communist idiot trying to scare people with bullshit about "High nucleoid concentration had high radiation level."
ReplyDeleteThe water to be discharged has had
ALL radioactive solid particles, dissolved molecules and dissolved ions removed.
Onlynlow level tritium is left behind in the treated water, due to Tritium Oxide , basically water , being impossible to remove from the rest of the water.
Nuclear Radiation is Not a Ghost.
Wakakakaka…
Delete"The water to be discharged has had
ALL radioactive solid particles, dissolved molecules and dissolved ions removed"
U still believe in that f*cked reversed Osmosis ALP fart!
Then how to account for the 70% high concentration of radiation in the treated 'waste' water?
Water will self-ionize to a very small extent under normal conditions. The reaction in which a water molecule donates one of its protons to a neighbouring water molecule, either in pure water or in an aqueous solution, is called the self-ionization of water. Thus, H2O + H2O ⇌ H3O+ + OH. under the assumption that the sum of the chemical potentials of H+ and H3O+ is formally equal to twice the chemical potential of H2O at the same temperature and pressure.
Under normal electrolyte exchanges the normal H can be replaced by the tritium H - converting a normal compound, especially hydrocarbon, into a radioactive substance.
The hydrocarbon body can then become a concentrator of the tritium.
Ooop… u r 'the one who knows' fart group!
Just likening to that associate professor from oz telling everyone that the tritium dosage from 4 days of rain can be higher than the planned staging discharged of the Fukushima treated 'waste' water!
Totally ignoring how rare is naturally occurring tritium at earth atmosphere!
Totally ignore how those millions of tons of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water r been generated!
Mfer, u know radiation effects?
Delete"Nuclear Radiation is Not a Ghost"
It's a monstrous & lasting ghost if it's not been used in a controlled setup likening to power generating nuclear plant.
Under an openly accessible surrounding nuclear radiation can be hazardously dangerous & deadly!
By polluting the common human heritage - Pacific Ocean - with radioactive nucleoids, they must be declatrd WAR to punish this selfish & self-serving mfering 倭寇 adminstration.
ReplyDeleteThey don't understand reasons & logic. They only kawtow to superior force!