China has banned seafood imports from Japan as the island country has started its controversial process of releasing nuclear radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, Chinese customs authorities said Thursday. The ban started immediately and will affect all imports of “aquatic products”
The Japanese government is set to begin releasing wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, slowly unloading the liquid before the tanks reach capacity in 2024. After years of planning the water’s disposal and testing its radioactive contents, Japanese Prime Minister
As Tokyo plans to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, Japanese restaurant operator Sam Lam is busy finding substitutes for Japanese seafood that could soon be banned from entering Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government said last Wednesday that the city
In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami caused a Fukushima power plant to release large amounts of radiation. Japan plans to release the plant’s treated radioactive wastewater into the sea. If Japan follows through with its plans, Hong Kong will ban more Japanese products,
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed the facilities
Following a destructive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, a nuclear power plant in Fukushima released large amounts of radiation. Japanese regulators began a final inspection Wednesday to obtain a permit allowing the the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to release treated radioactive wastewater
After a destructive earthquake and tsunami caused a Japanese power plant to release large amounts of radiation in 2011, storage tanks have been cooling its reactor cores with water. On Monday, Japan has begun conducting tests to ultimately discharge the radioactive wastewater
Cocaine use has increased across Europe, an EU-wide wastewater study showed on Wednesday, with the highest levels of residues found in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. The study, the largest to date by the Lisbon-based European drugs monitoring agency EMCDDA, analyzed
China on Friday condemned a Japanese plan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, demanding that Tokyo first receive the approval of neighboring countries. China has made similar complaints on a regular basis in the
Belgium will test wastewater from planes arriving from China for new COVID variants as part of new steps against the spread of the coronavirus as infections in China surge, the government announced on Monday. “This will be an additional monitoring objective to