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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The United States has started bulk buying Japanese seafood to supply its military there in response to China’s ban on such products imposed after Tokyo released treated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

Unveiling the initiative in a Reuters interview on Monday, U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Washington should also look more broadly into how it could help offset China’s ban that he said was part of its “economic wars.”

China, which had been the biggest buyer of Japanese seafood, says its ban is due to food safety fears.

The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog vouched for the safety of the water release that began in August from the plant wrecked by a 2011 tsunami. G7 trade ministers on Sunday called for the immediate repeal of bans on Japanese food.

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[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 73 points 9 months ago

Here's a simple fact, there are Chinese nuclear plants that are releasing more tritium into the ocean during normal operations than Fukushima is, or ever will.

Another simple fact, all the tritium released worldwide is basically negligible when you look at the diffusion rates in ocean water.

I've got no clue what China is really wanting with the seafood ban, but it's not to punish Japan for releasing Fukushima water.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Dilution is always the solution baby. Something so simple, yet still so impossible to explain to people who believe in chem trails.

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago

Tbf, that's kinda what people thought about leaded gasoline, or greenhouse gas emissions.

In this case, yes, everyone seems perfectly fine, but dilution isn't the solution to everything when the body you're diluting into is finite.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Dilution would technically still be a solution for both of those problems, the issue is just user input error. If you don't have the reagents to dilute a proper solution then you have too many solutes.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

For those it turned out we weren't adequately diluting it. And we know a lot more about radionuclides than we knew about those back then.

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