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No abnormalities in water samples taken near Fukushima plant: China
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Agent_Neo
Even though the IAEA is checking, China is the country that is finding fault with Japan.
Does anyone know how they will falsify the figures?
theFu
So, all China's claims were false, as we knew they would be. No surprise here.
Chinese CCP blocked Japanese seafood for how long over NOTHING? If I were Chinese in China, I'd be extremely unhappy with my govt over this, if I didn't have 50 other reasons to be unhappy already.
JJE
China just reasonably wanted multiple independent verification. If Tokyo hadn't stonewalled, this process would be several squares down the board. Beijing is hardly alone in this position.
theFu
Actually, they are alone. They stirred the pot to get others with of history of Japanese hate to go along.
Looking forward to the apologies from each country that was clearly incorrect, but I won't hold my breath for that to happen. Chinese don't like losing face, after all, but they do it so very often.
obladi
Both China and Japan have recently been birthplaces of epic disasters that were preventable. If China had not covered up the Wuhan outbreak, we might have prevented a pandemic. If TEPCO had disclosed the Fukushima meltdown earlier, residents could have taken action. What we need is more transparency. I think independent testing is perfectly reasonable and will help to build trust in the future.
Coulda been
So, the testing discovered nothing abnormal. Solution- keep testing until we do. Typical CCP narrative.
WiseOneIn Kansai
As usual, the CCP time wasting and always providing a false narrative. If you want respect from the world, you have to earn it❗
Tokyo Guy
"China is clearly owned and controlled by the global corporate elite bureaucrat illuminati! Fight the power! Say no to The Man!"
Oops, sorry. Forgot to change account.
OssanAmerica
Japan should simply ban all seafood exports to and from China. And as long as China wants to keep this silly facade going, start banning product after product.
China has been a member of the IAEA since January 1, 1984. Despite this they refuse to accept the IAEA's findings and place additional demands on Japan as an excuse to weaponize trade.
Japan should lower themselves to China's level and demand IAEA investigation into releases from Chinese nuclear plants. And ban seafood imports from China during the process.
Mr Kipling
Of course. All just a political football game. Japan follows the anti China play of the US, China can retaliate.
All just a game.
fallaffel
This is some good old trolling from China.
isabelle
Zero surprise there. We've known it's safe since the start, per the transparent data published and IAEA monitoring of each release.
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/tritium-level-far-below-japans-operational-limit-in-tenth-batch-of-alps-treated-water-iaea-confirms
China's ban continues to violate WTO rules. See Articles 2.2 and 5:
https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=uragreements/spsagreement.pdf&mode=download
But despite the losses to Japan's fisheries industry (which is now finding new markets), the country that will suffer the most through this is China, as its malign acts ensure that it will never join the CPTPP.
isabelle
Total nonsense, as usual.
The IAEA (of which China and many other countries are members) has always maintained that the plan is "consistent with international safety standards," and that it will have a "negligible impact," and it has confirmed this via monitoring with each release for over a year at several independent labs. No abnormalities have been found.
More nonsense.
Tokyo offered the same monitoring framework back in September 2023, and China refused so that it could practice its economic coercion for another 16 months.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/09/a0e5a0bae68d-china-rejects-japans-suggestion-of-joining-fukushima-water-framework.html
GuruMick
I will dumb things down a little....
Dumping huge volumes of radioactive waste water into an ocean would and should give cause for concern for all Pacific nations and not just because of eating fish.
Therefore China was within its rights to question safety, but ,politically, also a chance to needle Japan.
I still think using our oceans as a garbage dump belongs in a long past era.
isabelle
It should. But releasing water that has been shown to be safe by the international body best-placed to confirm this shouldn't.
It is within its rights to question safety, but per WTO rules it must not:
1) Totally dismiss the body of evidence that the IAEA has amassed, proving that safety
2) Ignore Japan's call to participate in a separate monitoring framework for well over a year
That is unquestionably what it is. Nothing to do with safety.
If China were truly concerned about safety it would ban its own seafood, since its plants release far worse.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/d7a70def8245-chinas-nuclear-plants-released-tritium-above-fukushima-level-in-2022.html
wallace
We have known that for many months.
oldman_13
You can't make this stuff up. Pure comedy.
Claire
We all knew this already.
deanzaZZR
Now this would be an interesting experiment. Use your influence in Kasumigaseki and make it a reality.
grc
It’s only right and proper that China be allowed to make an independent inspection. And it’s only right and proper that it make the unadulterated results of the inspection public
Ricky Kaminski13
Really, China? Could you now walk back and apologize for all of the hate and fear mongering that you used over this issue, one that deliberately turns up the volume of anti-Japanese sentiment in your country and may have even contributed to some of the horrible acts of violence against Japanese people in China by your citizens? The stabbings of children just one example. You don’t just get to say oops, now that Trump has become a factor, and that only now you’ve now decided to turn the volume down, now that you need better relationships with the likes of Japan and India to try and save your own economy. We can see through it all. There’s a thing we call accountability that needs to be addressed.
GuruMick
Isabelle....concede your logical point with this proviso....how many times in the past has the science, especially medicine, been found to be wrong.
I still disagree with renaming the Pacific "el Garbo "
iknowall
I refuse to eat anything from Fukushima.
wallace
iknowall
When you eat in a restaurant you eat Fukushima rice.
Peter Neil
indeed, fukushima rice has a little tangy flavor to it.
just kidding.
i fully expect china to resume seafood imports in 2250.
ian
Good that China is giving attention to the far more dangerous radionuclides.
Japan has always been trying to limit the attention to tritium only
ian
Still a long way
bass4funk
Thank God, I'm not a real rice eating person
isabelle
Thank you.
Science, just like this monitoring, is ongoing: if something is found to be wrong, adjustments will be made. But at some point you have to act practically, and given that the IAEA has reviewed the plan, and conducted independent monitoring for over a year, I believe we can say it's "safe."
Also bear in mind that science is the same for everyone. If the IAEA's methodology here is (or later turns out to be) wrong, that means everyone is wrong. Either way, there's no reason to single out Fukushima.
And, regardless of the above, China's ban still violates WTO rules, which state that bans must not be maintained "without sufficient scientific evidence." There is no such evidence.
isabelle
This line again?
As discussed on here ad infinitum, the other (62) radionuclides are removed/reduced to safe levels by ALPS. This is also verified by the IAEA.
China is doing nothing that isn't already being done.
ian
Isnt it true that Japan has been trying to limit the discussion to tritium only?
Abe234
Agent_NeoToday 07:03 am JST
Even though the IAEA is checking, China is the country that is finding fault with Japan.
Does anyone know how they will falsify the figures?
oh that’s easy! You just order someone in the CCP (under threat of getting fired or other consequences) to do as they are told. Then release it on social media, news, papers, and just say it.
job done!!!!I think it kinda works that way with most dictatorships!
quercetum
Third Party due diligence is always good. Glad that China actually checks instead of taking in reports as is.
ian
If this is true they would have happily reported that in the news.
But always the reporting is confined to tritium.
isabelle
Because tritium is the main issue, and the reason for the dilution.
If you want to know the figures for the other radionuclides they're all there, including the raw data. No-one is "limiting" their discussion.
The IAEA does its own checks and certainly doesn't just "take in reports as is."
You've already been told this multiple times, but are just repeating the same pro-CCP line you tried months ago.
USNinJapan2
The IAEA should take issue with China, a member state, for refusing to accept their findings.
GuruMick
I sometimes think if China came up with a cure for all cancers some posters here would not like it.
deanzaZZR
News alert, the WTO and other post WW2 economic institutions are dead because of the weaponization of trade by the USA. And now this trend is turbo charged with President Trump wielding the tariff hammer because "trade wars are easy to win".
ian
Seems Fukushima wastewater isnt even safe enough to be reused as coolant
ian
Hahaha the "safest" radionuclide is the main issue?
ian
Most people before won't be caught dead trusting tepco, probably one of the least trustworthy institutions in Japan.
But because china is opposing..
ian
Anyway china can't be trusted so they're probably lying about this report too haha
iknowall
I always check the origin of vegetables and rice in Japan. Thankfully the restaurants in Kyoto are transparent.