Plant in China releases water with higher amounts of tritium, scientist says, calling into question the reason for seafood ban imposed on Japan
China has condemned the discharge, with the customs agency saying that it risks the “radioactive contamination of food safety”. China’s foreign ministry said that it was an “extremely selfish and irresponsible act”.
“There is a fundamental difference between the nuclear-contaminated water that came into direct contact with the melted reactor cores in the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the water released by nuclear power plants in normal operation,” foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday. “They are different in nature, come from different sources and require different levels of sophistication to handle.
“The water release is designed to have seven times less tritium per litre than is recommended for drinking water by the World Health Organization. Much more tritium has been released by normally operating nuclear power plants into the North Pacific Ocean since those plants in China, South Korea, and Taiwan, were first located on coastal sites.
Chinese fishmongers are now fretting about empty shelves as they are unable to restock Japanese imports, which were previously considered to be of a higher quality than seafood from other countries.
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