Japan asks Hong Kong not to ban food imports over Fukushima water release

HONG KONG needs to ban dangerous products and protect its citizens, unlike Japan.

Imagine that. And China is the number one market. Sanctions and bans cut both ways.

Japan's second-largest market for agricultural and fisheries exports,

Good on Hong Kong! More countries, not just in the region, but around the world as well, should be following in their footsteps!

Just dumping water and bowing just won't work for Hongkong, unlike those poor Fukushima fisherman.

Hong Kong smart decision to protect their citizens from radioactive water and products that are highly dangerous.

Stop this water release Fukushima!

Don’t beg, just don’t release the contaminated waste water.

Actually what Hong Kong should do is to ban all the Japanese imports.

This contained water can be cleaned with technology but it is costly, what Japan is doing is the cheapest way to deal with problem and endangering people lives.

Up until recently I was kind of leaning towards dumping the water as it seemed there was no other solution, and the gov't and TEPCO also stated this was the only option. But then I saw a report when the IAEA director visited Korea and they showed that there were at least 3 other options, but as Larr Flint said they are more expensive, but safer. Why does Japan allow TEPCO to destroy the Fukushima reputation again. For these poor people it is a repeat of what happened on March 11th, the stigma and the shame of saying you are from Fukushima!

Like Nishimura and Kishida didn't see this coming? The folks in Fukushima have been saying this all along...

Why is it that the Japanese government and TEPCO just can’t seem to convince other countries that their radioactive discharges are safe?

Who would have thought that radioactivity and food wouldn’t be a popular mix?

The Japanese must be extremely confused…

Why is it that the Japanese government and TEPCO just can’t seem to convince other countries that their radioactive discharges are safe?

They would never have been able to do that, no matter what they do, no matter how safe it actually is. Deeming the discharge unsafe is, first and foremost, a political gambit. One can see this perfectly demonstrated in South Korea: the government deems it safe, the opposition deems it unsafe.

Don’t beg, just don’t release the contaminated waste water.

Bass, VERY well said!

Hong Kong asked Japan not to dump radioactive water into the worlds oceans but Japan will not adhere. Now, Japan asks Hong Kong to buy radioactive fish?

So here's an idea. Let's ship the water to Sendai and release it into the sea there?

Because the Sendai nuclear power plant already releases about twice as much tritium into the sea every year as Fukushima will. But noone cares about Sendai, not the local Sendai fishermen, not Korea, China, or Hong Kong, and there are no protests against the "Sendai waste water release".

Or let's ship it to Takahama. Noone even has so much as heard of Takahama, releasing the same amount of tritium as Sendai. Where even is Takahama?

@Roy

This article’s focus is on the import and consumption of seafood not radioactive discharge comparisons

And comparing more or less radioactivity in other places is a straw man approach

＞＞Japan asks Hong Kong not to ban food imports over Fukushima water release

Japan should ask Hong Kong and China not to intrude into Japan's waters and poach local (lots of) fish and coral. If they continue to address any radioactive risk, just stop overfishing in "risky" foreign territories.

This article’s focus is on the import and consumption of seafood not radioactive discharge comparisons

Fair enough. But if the discharge amount does not matter, what exactly are we discussing then? Feelings?

But then I saw a report when the IAEA director visited Korea and they showed that there were at least 3 other options,

And what are these 3 options? And If these options exist, which I doubt, why did neither South Korean or China use them, since both of them dumped waste water into the ocean?

Don’t beg, just don’t release the contaminated waste water.

And do what with the water? It is ok to build a tank next to your place?

This contained water can be cleaned with technology but it is costly, what Japan is doing is the cheapest way to deal with problem and endangering people lives.

It is being cleaned with technology but technology can only do so much.

 Just dumping water and bowing just won't work for Hongkong, unlike those poor Fukushima fisherman.

But its ok for China to dump waste water into the ocean?

Good on Hong Kong! More countries, not just in the region, but around the world as well, should be following in their footsteps!

Really, How about banning products from China and South Korea, since both countries dump waste into the Ocean. Lets not forget about France and Europe, since they do, dump waste water into the ocean.

HONG KONG needs to ban dangerous products and protect its citizens, unlike Japan.

Yeah right, then Hong Kong should ban products from China, if it wants to protect its citizens. In fact, Hong Kong should break away from China , if it really wants to protects its people.

Police-state Hong Kong does not deserve Japans quality produce anyway. They should continue eating their own contaminated produce from elsewhere in China.

Japan will have no problem finding markets for any seafood - considering all the science and testing says it is 100% safe.

yes Japan can beg or "urge" but thats all.

all neigbours are stopping buy your fish products dear Japan Inc.there are two solutions.

or to force japanese to buy all production/and get possibly ill/or throw all in ocean.

Good on you Hong Kong!

When there are economic consequences the LDP may act. It's obvious they don't care about the Japanese people though or this release would have never seen the light of day. Losing their biggest client might make them rethink their TEPCO makes all the rules strategy though!

If you’re going to dump the water then concerns of Japanese sea food products will follow and are reasonable.

It’s not only the people in Hong Kong who are concerned, but also the Japanese fishermen and South Koreans as well.

That said Korean Japanese relations have been improving. Other nations should not use this as a tool divide the two nations.

Hong Kong asks Japan not to release radioactive water.

 Lets not forget about France and Europe, since they do, dump waste water into the ocean.

France IS in Europe.

Smeh

This is what happens when you pee in your neighbor’s pool.

This is what happens when you pee in your neighbor’s pool.

The North Pacific Ocean is Hong Kong territory? Since when?

Y'know, there are ways to deal with this...

19th century way: send diplomatic letters, stamped in vermillion, to beg for understanding and goodwill from the bureaucracy in the hope that the people will listen.

21st century way: engage in active anti-disinformation campaigns in the digital world. We all know the reason that people are freaking out in Korea and the Chinese world is that aunties and uncles love to forward memes of questionable scientific accuracy to each other. Like Taiwan did with covid, create some equally shareable memes with good information so they can do their thing.

Japan is two centuries behind and needs to catch up!

This is what happens when you pee in your neighbor’s pool.

drinking pee doesn’t cause cancer, immune destruction and heart problems and lung problems and bone structure development problems I think. Radionuclides do.

Keep begging not gonna happen

The water is said to be safe. There’s a lake in Fukushima. Why not dump it in the lake and keep it inJapan?

The radioactive elements are supposedly harmless and the Japanese don’t like to cause trouble for others. So this is the best answer. Keep your garbage to your self instead of allowing the ocean currents to transport to the Americas.

Keeping the water in a lake. It would evaporate along with the Tritium into the atmosphere which has the highest levels of it.

Using sunshine and swimming pool type evaporation chambers

Can you point us to a document that would describe this technology? Google is surprisingly unhelpful when looking for "swimming pool type evaporation chambers", and regular evaporation chambers are something entirely different, you can't possibly mean those.

to evap the water isn't exactly high tech or prohibitively costly.

No, it wouldn't be. The METI considered evaporation briefly, by its fancier name "vapor release". This is one of the two viable technologies that are currently also in use by nuclear facilities around the world.

And it wouldn't make a lick of difference.

The tritiated water would evaporate into tritiated steam, come down as tritiated rain, and eventually end up in the ocean. Just like it would if you directly put it in the ocean in the first place. Just a bit more elaborate.

And China, Korea's opposition party, and Hong Kong would again complain and announce food bans. Just as they do now. Because their complaints are not scientifically, not environmentally, but politically motivated.

I'm not one to support or agree with the CCP but I can kinda see their point. If I were them I'd be a bit concerned about cesium in the food, and the organisations in charge of the cleanup haven't exactly been on a rocketship of success and integrity.

Lets not forget about France and Europe, since they do, dump waste water into the ocean.

France IS in Europe.

Smeh

You are correct, France is in Europe. So it should read: Europe dumps waste water into the ocean. The point still stands. Does it not?

Smeh

Lets not forget about France and Europe, since they do, dump waste water into the ocean.

France IS in Europe.

Smeh

You are correct,

I know

So it should read: Europe dumps waste water into the ocean. The point still stands. Does it not?

Do you have a link for that??

Smeh

Smeh

at the end of the day Anicerainbow Japan will suffer economically for this stupid stunt

The La Hague reprocessing plant in France releases 450 times more Tritium water than planned at Fukushima. It releases more than 11,000 TBq/year. The Sellafield reprocessing plant in the UK releases 50 times more at 1,200 TBq/year. More than 90,000 TBq since it opened.

TEPCO wants to release 25TBq/year.