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© Thomson Reuters 2023.South Korean market tests seafood to dispel Fukushima radiation fears
By Daewoung Kim and Jimin Jung SEOUL©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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kurisupisu
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
Paul
Pointless exercise!
kwatt
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.
obladi
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.
Aly Rustom
nothing wrong with testing
Sven Asai
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.
garymalmgren
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?
gary
kurisupisu
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
OssanAmerica
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.
Peter Neil
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?
sf2k
it's bioaccumulative, so what is one fish going to prove?
ian
They've started the release?!
ian
yes lol
kyushubill
Because everyone knows every fish monger is trained in testing for atomic materials. (eye roll)
kohakuebisu
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.
oldman_13
So hypocritical, coming from South Korean government that themselves have released questionable wastes into the oceans.
ian
Maybe this issue has made the people more aware and conscious of their own wastewater discharge
ian
So are questioning food safety irrespective of the discharge from Japan
wallace
You cannot measure radiation in food like the guy in the photo is doing.
wallace
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.
John
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.
Mirchy
This is the same as in the 1950s when throwing barrels with radioactive waste in the ocean. I do not see the difference.
Agent_Neo
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.
Yamada Taro
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.