Irradiated water riots: President ate fish

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Prime Minister Han Duck-so chose seafood for lunch amid public concern over the start of the discharge of radioactive wastewater from Fukushima.

According to Yonhap News, the President’s Office said in a statement that the government is trying to prove that seafood is safe after Japan began dumping sewage into the ocean. The statement said that Yoon and Han had seafood for lunch, while a variety of seafood will be served throughout the week at the President’s Office cafeteria.

Park Ku-yeon, vice president of the South Korean Government Policy Coordination Office, announced today that the concentration of tritium in seawater is “well below” the standard limit. On the other hand, it was announced that as of today a special inspection for the marking of the countries of origin of imported fish products began in order to address public safety concerns.

RELIEF BY INCREASING BLOOD PRESSURE

The tsunami caused by the magnitude 9 earthquake in March 2011 damaged 3 of the 4 nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-içi Nuclear Power Plant, and the vicinity of the power plant was declared an “evacuation zone” due to radioactive fallout.

After the core meltdown of reactors 1 and 3 inside the facility, water began to be poured into the reactors to cool them. Treated and radioactive wastewater accumulated over time.

In June 2020, the National Federation of Fishermen’s Cooperatives (JF Zengyoren) unanimously adopted the special declaration against the discharge of sewage into the ocean, and then-Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide announced the plan to discharge nuclear wastewater into the ocean on June 13. April 2021. .

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported in July 2023 that Japan’s plan to discharge accumulated sewage into the sea meets safety standards. Japan had started dumping sewage in Fukushima on August 24.

While the plan provoked a reaction from fishermen and environmental protection activists living in the region, as well as from neighboring countries, especially China, China has imposed a ban on importing seafood from Japan. (AA)