China bans Japanese food imports over Fukushima water release
The decades-long discharge from the devastated nuclear plant has been approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
China’s customs authority on Friday said it would ban food imports from 10 Japanese prefectures over Tokyo’s plan to release treated nuclear wastewater into the ocean.
Japan’s planned, decades-long discharge of accumulated water from the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant has been approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But China’s foreign ministry on Thursday said the IAEA report could not be used as a “green light” for the water release plan and warned of unknown risks to human health.
China’s Customs authority on Friday said it would “ban imports of foodstuffs from 10 Japanese prefectures including Fukushima” and would conduct stringent radiation tests on food from the rest of Japan.
About 1.33 million cubic metres of groundwater, rainwater and water used for cooling have accumulated at the Fukushima site, which is being decommissioned after several reactors melted down following the 2011 tsunami.
The process used by the plant operator removes almost all radioactive elements except tritium, and plans to dilute it before discharging it into the ocean over several decades.
AFP
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