South Korean market tests seafood to dispel Fukushima radiation fears

> "This should not be about emotions or feelings," said a 76-year-old shopper, Mun Chang-yeon. "I wish our people would look into what has been proven by scientific measures. I don't want fishermen to get hurt by all the rumors."

There are ‘thousands’ of tons of radioactive materials fused together under the ground in Fukushima that is festering and emitting radiation

That is a fact not ‘an emotion, a feeling or a rumor’

Radiation causes many types of illness and everyone ‘must’ be responsible for their own health

The treatment for tumors is almost always a surgical procedure which is life changing

Pointless exercise!

All nuclear power plants all over the world are discharging trituim water out. That’s why all nuclear power plants are sitting nearby ocean or river. China and S Korea are actually discharging more than Japan. France is the number 1 country. It has much more nuclear power plants there.

Whether or not the food is safe, I can totally understand the fear of radiation: you can't see or smell it and the effects appear years later.

nothing wrong with testing

That panic hype is 99.9% about politics and only 0.01% about a possible slightly higher radiation. If they bite into a banana, they ingest already much more of it, due to the few Potassium isotopes, than they would ingest if there was really one of the many fish caught from the Tritium sea water area.

The largest fisheries market in the South Korean capital is stepping up testing to show its offerings are safe

I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to demonstrate, given that the release has not happened yet and it's not seafood from Fukushima which they banned anyway. But hey, unintentionally they demonstrated that the seafood is safe despite Korea putting multiple times the tritium into the sea as Fukushima will, so that's something?

This article raises more questions than it answers.

How on earth is a fishmonger in a fish market going to accurately test for radioactive contamination in the fish?

Oh. I see,. They have a PLAN "market officials pointed radiation detectors at fresh fish and seafood as they made random tests at 10 stalls,"

And if they happen to find contamination in locally caught seafood, what will the reaction be?

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Who would be happy giving their young child seafood from an area with more radioactive substances than Han others m?

Remember that radioactivity has been pouring out of Fukushima since 2011-it just doesn’t disappear

As foolish and unlikely to be effective this will be, the fishmongers are simply trying to protect their livlihood in the face of unfounded and hipocritical hysteria.

Korea is the number one country for fish exports from Japan, accounting for 56% of all fish exports.

I wonder what happens when fish caught near Korea now test having radiation? Or is it just Japanese seafood being tested?

it's bioaccumulative, so what is one fish going to prove?

it's bioaccumulative

Tritium is not bioaccumulative or biomagnifying. It's hydrogen with a twist, as part of the water molecule it behaves just like regular water.

so what is one fish going to prove?

Nothing. The whole act is just for show. You can't measure anything of value with whatever gadget the guys there are holding in their hand.

They've started the release?!

yes lol

Because everyone knows every fish monger is trained in testing for atomic materials. (eye roll)

I wonder if any of the fish is tested for mercury.

As it happens, 20% of the mercury in the ocean is from burning coal, what usually happens when you don't have nuclear power. I'm all for alternatives, but not bad ones.

So hypocritical, coming from South Korean government that themselves have released questionable wastes into the oceans.

Well this is weird. I was trying to find better pictures of what the guy is actually doing there. And I stumble over all sorts of weird demonstrations by top-level Korean politicians doing all sorts of weird safety demonstrations:

https://jp.yna.co.kr/view/PYH20230706158800882?section=image/photos

"South Korean Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries tastes abalone at a fish market"

https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/306142

Representatives of the People's Power party drinking water from a fish tank ...

https://www.chosunonline.com/site/data/html_dir/2023/07/03/2023070380163.html

... and eating sashimi at Noryangjin Fisheries Market.

What's going on over there in Korea? Why is everyone suddenly rushing to demonstrate that the fish is safe, as if anything about that had changed in the last decade?

Maybe this issue has made the people more aware and conscious of their own wastewater discharge

So are questioning food safety irrespective of the discharge from Japan

You cannot measure radiation in food like the guy in the photo is doing.

You cannot measure radiation in food like the guy in the photo is doing.

https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/E5ZFLN7PRZMZHDDGKJIGQJZY7Q.jpg

He is using a surface contamination meter and it's set to CPS. I mean, kudos for theatralics I guess, but he could just as well use a rectal thermometer.

You cannot measure radiation in food with some form of Geiger counter. Does not take into consideration of background radiation. Type of radiation. People were trying that back in 2011.

I thought the water has not been released yet. It needs to be tested in a laboratory. I hope the Scientists from South Korea have done more proper tests.

This is the same as in the 1950s when throwing barrels with radioactive waste in the ocean. I do not see the difference.

This is the same as in the 1950s when throwing barrels with radioactive waste in the ocean.

It is most definitely not. In fact, it is off by a factor of about 1000 and massively different contents.

I do not see the difference.

Then, and sorry to be so blunt, you need to educate yourself.

In the past, even at the Tokyo Olympics, Koreans were trying to measure the radioactivity content of food with a Geiger counter, saying it was a radioactivity Olympics, but it goes without saying how nonsense this is.

They don't know how to measure radioactivity in food.

We also don't know how much radioactivity is removed by the ALPS used in Japan.

AIEA's two-year survey data is also unreliable.

They don't even know that their own nuclear power plants emit more tritium.

The only thing they know is that they cannot quit their anti-Japanese activities.

South Korea releases more than 16 times more tritium (liquid and gas combined) each year than the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is scheduled to release (22 TBq).

In 2021, 371.06 TBq.

In 2022, 356.01 TBq.

January-March 2023, 118.89 TBq.

In the past, there have been no reported incidents of health problems caused by tritium in South Korea.

South Korean thorium emissions are published by Korea Hydro ＆ Nuclear Power.

https://npp.khnp.co.kr/board/list.khnp?boardId=BBS_0000020&menuCd=DOM_000000103003004001&contentsSid=110

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Curiously, the South Korean media foments anxiety about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but does not report objective facts about their own nuclear power plant.