South Korea bans import of seafood from Japan

According to the Yonhap report, Yun Jae-ok, spokesman for the ruling People’s Power Party (PPP) in South Korea, made a statement after a meeting with senior government officials.

Yun stated that imports of seafood from Fukushima will be banned until the food safety issues subside.

Noting that they will prepare to avoid a dangerous situation in food consumption in the country, Yun said, “It doesn’t matter if the bans last for 10, 20, 30, 50 or even 100 years.” he used the phrase.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to publish its final report on the safety of the plan to discharge radioactive wastewater from the idle power plant into the sea.

THE REGISTRATION PROCESS CAN TAKE 2 YEARS

The radioactive substances formed in the pure water, which performs the cooling function of the nuclear power plant’s reactors, are decomposed, except for the tritium material, thanks to the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS).

According to Japan’s radioactive wastewater discharge plan, wastewater containing the element tritium will be diluted with seawater and diluted.

The operator of the facility, TEPCO, will release the water, which is increasing day by day, into the ocean periodically, one kilometer away from the plant, with the pipelines it has built under the sea.

It is estimated that the discharge of wastewater into the sea will take two years.

Although the official schedule was not made public, it was announced that the evacuation period to the ocean would begin in the summer of this year.

In March 2011, the nuclear meltdown caused by the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor caused a leak and the area around the power plant was declared an evacuation zone. (AA)